Jan. 6 Pepper Sprayer Gets 4 Years In Prison

More January 6 karma — Bryan Roger Bishop, 52, was sentenced to nearly four years in prison after pleading guilty to assaulting law enforcement during the violent January 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol. Bishop was sentenced to 45 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly.

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From the Justice Department:

According to court documents, on Jan. 6, 2021, by approximately 2:00 p.m., a crowd of rioters had breached various barriers that had been erected on the west side of the U.S. Capitol building and were attempting to overwhelm police officers positioned there.

At approximately 2:02 p.m., Bishop emerged from the crowd and aimed and sprayed a chemical irritant canister at the line of police officers.

Court documents say that Bishop sprayed a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer directly in the face with an orange-colored chemical irritant and then sprayed a second MPD officer by aiming the spray at an upward angle in order to spray under the officer’s face shield.

After spraying the officers on the West Plaza, Bishop entered the U.S. Capitol building at approximately 2:39 p.m.

Bishop’s wife Tonya was sentenced in July to 24 months of probation in the case after pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct and picketing in a Capitol building. Related: Capitol Rioter Gets 5+ Years In Prison For Attacking Police Donald Trump has said he would “absolutely” consider pardons for folks like Bishop and calls them “hostages” of the U.S. government. Here’s the local news report from August 8, 2023, when the couple were arrested. Bryan Bishop complained that their arrest was “overly-dramatic.” I wonder if he thinks the invasion of the Capitol was “dramatic?”