In an emotional testimony, Reeder, at times crying, described losing his family, his job and his church community after January 6. Instead, prosecutors increased their recommended sentence to six months in jail, siting what they called a “rewrite of reality” in Reeder’s claims to the FBI that he was nonviolent at the riot, not a Trump supporter and believed he had permission to enter the Capitol. Though the plea deal prosecutors signed with Reeder gave the Justice Department the chance to charge Reeder for the assault, they declined to do so. Reeder was initially scheduled to be sentenced in August, but the hearing was abruptly postponed after the online group known as the Sedition Hunters tweeted newly discovered clips and photos, apparently showing Reeder pushing a police officer outside the Capitol building. Prosecutors have already cited defiant comments from some rioters to argue that they deserve time behind bars, and this sentence could set a benchmark for judges as they deal with other low-level cases with defendants who have denied the severity of the insurrection. Though defendants who have pleaded guilty are not required to apologize, it could persuade a judge to show leniency at sentencing. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images) Stephanie Keith/Getty Imagesīannon to defy subpoena from January 6 committee, citing Trump's 'direction' Bannon and three other defendants have been indicted for allegedly defrauding donors in a $25 million border wall fundraising campaign. NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 20: Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon exits the Manhattan Federal Court on Augin the Manhattan borough of New York City. Hogan sentenced Reeder to three months in jail, and ordered that Reeder pay $500 for damages to the Capitol complex. His comments came during the sentencing for Robert Reeder, of Maryland, who pleaded guilty in June to unlawfully demonstrating inside the Capitol.
Hogan said that defendants who claimed they didn’t realize the severity of the riot are “trying to escape responsibility,” and that “other participants in that riot who are guilty of an infraction… can expect to receive jail time.” “They seem to me to be trying to get this out of the way as quickly and as inexpensively as possible – stating whatever they have to say in the guilty plea, getting probation, and hoping that would be the end of it,” he added. “It has become evident to me in the riot cases that many of the defendants who are pleading guilty are not truly accepting responsibility,” District Judge Thomas Hogan said. It is unknown whether the supposed officer was a member the Capitol Police or another law enforcement agency, as National File reported.A federal judge on Friday sentenced one of the US Capitol rioters to three months in jail, saying that the punishment should be a warning to other defendants that they deserve incarceration if they deflect responsibility or downplay the attack.
The new angle was filmed by Jason Funes, who recently released the footage via his YouTube channel. In new January 6 footage, a man dressed in tactical gear and a gas mask can be seen aiming a rifle at the crowd. And he wanted to frame Trump supporters as violent insurrectionists,” reported Gateway Pundit. “Reeder was a typical Biden agitator who wanted to interrupt the Republican objections inside the Capitol. On January 6, Reeder exhibited inflammatory and violent behavior to paint the surrounding Trump supporters as violent and unhinged.
Robert Maurice Reeder – SOURCE: Gateway PunditĪccording to the report, Reeder was set to receive his lighter sentence for posing as a MAGA protestor until a video showed him violently attacking police officers. Capitol and joining the “initially festive” events which by then were transpiring… He pleaded guilty to one of those counts - count four - and was due to be sentenced Wednesday. After listening to the oratory on the Ellipse, he says he visited various area monuments before arriving at the U.S. He was watching television coverage of a pro-Trump crowd which had gathered for a speeches on the Ellipse, when he made a spur-of-the-moment decision to hop a train into Washington, D.C., to join the event.
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