His case could serve as an example for dozens of similar cases in which supporters of then-President Donald Trump clashed with law enforcement. The AP agency informed about it. The prosecutor’s office will propose a penalty of three and a half to four and a half years in prison for Fairlamba.
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Fairlamb’s confession came less than two weeks after a congressional hearing in which police officers protecting the Capitol described their torturous memories of fighting Trump’s supporters. Five police officers on duty died on January 6 in connection with the attack, and four of them committed suicide.
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The Department of Justice claims that rioters attacked a total of 140 police officers in an attempt to infiltrate the Congress headquarters. About 80 of them were members of the Capitol Protection Units and the remaining 60 were from the Washington City Police.
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The forty-four-year-old Fairlamb, a former mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter, was one of the first rioters to enter the Capitol when the attackers smashed the building’s windows and broke one of the doors. When he left the building, according to the prosecutor’s office, he harassed the boarded police officers, shouted in their faces and tried to prevent them from passing through the crowd.
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Judgment in September
Fairlamb has been in custody since January 22 and will hear the verdict on September 27. His lawyer, Harley Breite, said he would ask the court to impose a lower sentence than the authorities recommend to courts in similar cases. He claimed that Fairlamb had already lost so much in his life to take part in the riots. “He lost his business. The mortgage on the house where he lives with his wife is in jeopardy. And he fell into public disfavor, “he said, adding that his client wanted to” pay the price for what he did and move on in his life. ” The maximum rate he could get is 20 years in prison.
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Fairlamb’s social media accounts show that he is a supporter of QAnon’s conspiracy theory and that he spread one of its fictional claims that Trump was to regain power and become president of the “new republic” by March 4 this year.
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Mainstream theory QAnon claims that Trump is waging a secret war against the conspiracy of Washington’s elites to invoke Satan and revel in child abuse and cannibalism, which are said to include leading Democrats as well as some Hollywood stars.
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On January 6, Trump’s supporters tried to disrupt the talks of both chambers of Congress, which were concerned with confirming the election victory of Trump’s opponent Joe Biden. Prior to the incident, Trump repeatedly claimed in public for months without proper evidence that Democrats had “stolen” the election and deprived him of his second presidential term by fraud. However, his allegations failed in dozens of different lawsuits, were opposed by state election officials and were not supported by members of his government.
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At least nine people who were in the Capitol on January 6 died in or after the riots. One of them was police officer Brian Sicknick, who collapsed when rioters sprayed him with an irritating substance. Four Washington police officers committed suicide.
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Police in Congressional headquarters shot dead one of Trump’s supporters as they tried to break through the door leading to the House of Representatives. Three other protesters died in health accidents.
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Authorities are prosecuting a total of 560 people in connection with the unrest and are still searching for hundreds more. At least 165 people face charges of assaulting or obstructing police officers, with about 50 accused by the prosecution of using a deadly weapon or injuring a police officer.
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More than 30 prosecutors have already admitted their guilt after an agreement with the prosecutor’s office. However, most of them reported less serious allegations of misdemeanors.
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