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.

  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.