A man who attacked an Associated Press photographer and threw a flagpole and smoke grenade at police officers guarding the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison.
Rodney Milstreed, 56, of Finksburg, Maryland, “prepared himself for battle” on Jan. 6 by injecting steroids and arming himself with a four-foot wooden club disguised as a flagpole, prosecutors said.
“He began taking steroids in the weeks leading up to January 6, so that he would be ‘jacked’ and ready because, he said, someone needed to ‘hang for treason’ and the battle might come down to hand-to-hand combat,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
He got off easy.
They are all getting slaps on the wrist considering that what they tried to do was destroy our democracy.
If they had succeeded, that would have been the end of it… Forever… We’d be living under a Trump dictatorship, or possibly engaged in bloody civil war right now.
5 years. Pathetic.
They’d get a longer sentence for pirating movies.
Pathetic.
Tbh I think bringing back the gallows would be appropriate.
I’m not trying to be super grim or anything, but prison is just going to further radicalize these people.
The people who own, run, and populate the prisons are very likely 100% on board with Jan 6.
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If they had succeeded, that would have been the end of it… Forever… We’d be living under a Trump dictatorship, or possibly engaged in bloody civil war right now.
No, there was never any chance of that. They could have killed everyone in the Capitol Building or held them for ransom. The Army would have surrounded the building and sent in the 101st Airborne to take them out. Probably local SWAT teams in the tunnels underneath too.
One thing I learned from this is that violence will not conquer America because the state is too good at it. Everyone in power likes the status quo because it benefits them. The military is not going to be loyal to someone who rocks the boat. Almost everyone in power is happy, so Jan 6 actually made them upset.
This is the largest group of prosecutions from a single event in history. These criminals are on a conveyor belt of justice that is locking up every one of them in record time.
We’ve seen no evidence that the army or local SWAT would have been sent. And who knows what side they would have been on. Many of our institutions were dominated by Trump supporters.
These dipshits have seen too many movies. What a dumb sack of shit. This moron was injecting steroids to prep for Jan 6, he seriously just wanted to play action hero and “save the government” like he’s goddamn Bruce Willis. These idiots are so fucking stupid. Like, so stupid they can’t help but ruin their own lives and fuck up the lives of those around them. Sad it’s such a short sentence because he is still going to be searingly stupid when he gets out.
Sometimes I think it must be nice to be so ignorant.
This isn’t ignorance. Ignorance can be cured with education. This is an actual lack of intelligence. They are just, straight up, stupid.
Good, glad some part of the justice system is working.
Only if you don’t have enough money to tell the government to fuck off.
A good decision to see. It is what is deserved.
5 years for treason, aggravated assault, aggregated assault against a police officer, etc. seems like more of a slap on the wrist to me.
I remember that guy. 5 years, he got what he deserved.
He did not deserve such a lenient sentence.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
WASHINGTON (AP) — A man who attacked an Associated Press photographer and threw a flagpole and smoke grenade at police officers guarding the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison.
Rodney Milstreed, 56, of Finksburg, Maryland, “prepared himself for battle” on Jan. 6 by injecting steroids and arming himself with a four-foot wooden club disguised as a flagpole, prosecutors said.
“He began taking steroids in the weeks leading up to January 6, so that he would be ‘jacked’ and ready because, he said, someone needed to ‘hang for treason’ and the battle might come down to hand-to-hand combat,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
Angry about the 2020 presidential election results, Milstreed spewed violent, threatening rhetoric on social media in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 attack.
In late December, he emailed a Maryland chapter of the Proud Boys to inquire about joining the far-right extremist group.
A video captured Milstreed retrieving a smoke grenade from the crowd of rioters and throwing it back at police across a barricade.
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