Jacob Chansley, the ‘Bison of QAnon’, sentenced to 41 months in prison for the assault on the Capitol

At the hearing, Chansley has told the judge that he made a mistake entering the Capitol. “I have no excuses,” said this man, who added that his behavior that day is “indefensible.”

Jacob Chansley, the man who participated in the assault on the United States Capitol Disguised as a bison, he was sentenced this Wednesday to 41 months in prison – three years and five months in prison – in a federal court in the country.

“What you did was terrible”, said the judge this Wednesday Royce Lamberth, of a federal court of the District of Columbia during the hearing to read the sentence.

Despite believing that the remorse expressed by Chansley are genuine, Lamberth has stressed that the crime committed by the man known in the United States as the shaman of QAnon it is so “serious” that it does not justify a lesser sentence.

At the hearing, Chansley has told the judge that he made a mistake entering the Capitol. “I have no excuses”, has indicated this man, who has added that his behavior that day is “indefensible”.

In September, Chansley, a native of Arizona, pleaded guilty to obstructing official proceedings during a session of Congress on January 6, when the assault on Capitol.

Through this guilty plea, which was part of an agreement with the Prosecutor’s Office, Chansley accepted a recommended sentence of between 41 and 51 months in prison, although the time he has been in jail since January 9 will be deducted.

Chansley, an adept at conspiracy theories of the Qanon movement, He became the most mediatic assailant of the Capitol since he did it disguised as a bison and got to sit in the chair of the president of the Senate.

He was arrested three days later and has remained behind bars since then, although media interest remained active for him after demanding that he be offered organic food in jail and refusing to eat for nine days until he was successful.

The Prosecutor’s office he had requested a sentence for Chansley of 51 months in prison.

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