US Capitol rioter who assaulted police officer gets 41 months in prison

[kpete]

(CNN)A New Jersey gym owner and former MMA fighter who punched a police officer during the January 6 riot was sentenced to 41 months in prison on Wednesday, becoming the first rioter sentenced for violence against the police during the attack.

Scott Fairlamb pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer and obstructing an official proceeding in August.
"I truly regret my actions that day. I have nothing but remorse," Fairlamb said in court Wednesday, later adding to the judge: "I just hope you show some mercy on me sir."

His sentence will likely set an early benchmark for how harshly rioters charged with violence may be punished and ushers in a new phase of the Capitol riot cases, which so far have only had non-violent defendants sentenced largely to no jail time.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/10/politics/fairlamb-sentence-capitol-riot/index.html

[Scrivener7]

1. A little better. But 41 months for assaulting a cop.

Just guessing he got the mercy he asked for.

[PatSeg]

14. He did get a plea agreement

and there is also 36 months of supervised release following his time in prison. It probably would have been much worse had he gone to trial. The judge did say that he was fortunate that the officer wasn't injured. Hopefully, 41 months is enough for him to really turn his life around. I'm sure he won't have access to online Qanon conspiracies in prison.

[lagomorph777]

30. These assholes will not turn their lives around; their brains are defective.

However, if we can lock 'em up long enough to create some space for democracy, that's some help.

[usaf-vet]

34. YES AGREED!

[druidity33]

38. He won't be able to vote. nt.

[PatSeg]

44. Yes, this is true

and his job opportunities could be very limited for years to come as well.

[Faux pas]

2. ...

Not nearly enough time!

[SoCalDavidS]

3. And He's Alive

If your average black man did that to a random cop, he'd probably get a death sentence.

[Irish_Dem]

9. He wouldn't even make it to jail.

[tenderfoot]

4. 3.5 years...

another slap on the wrist.

[bpj62]

11. Federal Penitentiary

41 months is 3 5 years in a federal prison. You lose the right to vote. You lose most of your rights and hopefully you aren't assaulted while in prison. Unless you have done some time in prison I don't think you have any idea of what he is about to go through.

[tenderfoot]

12. Sounds good

Thank you for the info.

[PatSeg]

16. Yes, it will be quite brutal

and his life will be very different once he gets out. He was sentenced to 36 months of supervised release on top of the prison time. This should affect his life profoundly.

[LakeArenal]

26. Oh he'll be online with Proud boys as soon as released.

[PatSeg]

43. It is possible

But prison can have a profound effect on a person. The experience is likely to wake a lot of people up to reality.

[mjvpi]

20. Felon. No guns.

[Smackdown2019]

22. Keep Trump from getting re-elected

If Trump get back in, he would pardon these traitors!

[Hortensis]

32. Well, most of us don't of course. Hopefully for sure he isn't assaulted.

At least, I've heard, federal prisons tend to be generally nicer and better run, and safer, than state prisons, such as here in GA, or wherever they store people there isn't room in overcrowded prisons for, like jails. If he was mine I'd have been trying for some comfort in knowing if "worse" came to "worse" he'd spend his time in a federal facility, and of course that what I'd heard was true.

[usaf-vet]

35. His first mistake will be thinking he is the big MMA tough guy on the block. There will not be a....

... referee in prison that will stop the fight. In prison, he will end up with a dozen stab wounds before anyone notices.

He might hold his own in the first encounter until they get him sized up.

The subsequent altercations will be far more deadly.

[DemUnleashed]

5. Oh sure...

Oh sure....NOW you have to feign regret and remorse just to try and get out of a severe sentence!

[Alexander Of Assyria]

6. Another one bites the dust. And the dust is getting thicker and thicker, so Bravo...deterrence

and retribution must be the predominant principles.

[colorado_ufo]

7. Gym owner and MMA fighter?

He could have killed someone with his bare hands.

[Escurumbele]

8. To me, the judge showed mercy the guy did not deserve. He should be in jail for at least 10 years

That should help him think about his stupidity. I don't believe in his remorse, it is just to make the judge believe he is sorry about what he did.

41 months is only 3.5 years, and he may be able to get out earlier for good conduct or whatever...These people need to be punished hard to make sure they, or anyone else thinking about it, do not do it again.

[LuckyCharms]

10. Not nearly enough.

Not only did he punch a cop, but he punched a cop while committing a seditious act.

The fucker had plenty of time to re-think his choice of going to the Capitol that day.

[Raster]

17. I concur.

They were at the Capitol that day to OVERTHROW the lawful and legal United States government.

[ToxMarz]

13. I think a good benchmark is too make sure they are all in prison at LEAST

until after the next inauguration. 41 months gets there.

[Raster]

15. So refresh my memory... Did he show any mercy to the Police Officer he punched...

... during the DOMESTIC TERRORIST incident at the Capitol?

[uponit7771]

18. Good start, ...

[Lucky Luciano]

19. 41 months makes sense for assaulting the cop.

How about the 20 additional years for sedition? Asking for a friend.

[IbogaProject]

21. Prison length ok

The 3.5 year sentence is ok. But the post release should be 10 or even 20 years.

[FelineOverlord]

23. This guy caused a lot of trouble in NJ last year

New Jersey was VERY hard hit by COVID. Fairlamb kept reopening his gym and the state kept shutting it down.

From May 2020:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/05/15/new-jersey-businesses-reopening-early/%3famp

The irony is that the gym is shut down again because he’s not there to run it.

[2Gingersnaps]

24. In my humble opinion it should start at 10 years,

but this is more like it. This bullshit of time served or 30-60 days has to stop. This was a coup attempt.

[Mr.Bill]

25. I think every single person that crossed the police line

that day should do at least 20 years, and a good number of them should be executed.

[soldierant]

27. "I just hope you show some mercy on me sir."

Of course, everyone is different, but that doesn't sound like real remorse to me.

Real remose is more like "Whatever you sentence me to, I won't complain."

[Chille]

28. finally a decent

sentence. He'll be sitting in a prison for at least 2.58 years. That's eternity to those people

I took 10 months off of the 41 and divided it by 12

[rockfordfile]

29. He should've gotten life in prison

[Pepsidog]

31. That's more like it.

[Hortensis]

33. 41 months in prison is top of the sentencing guidelines.

Another seditionist was reported last spring to be facing a very similar term, but he cooperated to turn in others.

A problem with sending people away for decades or life for treason is that thousands came believing they were patriots either demonstrating or prepared to fight to take their government back from a LW coup d'etat. Of course they shouldn't have believed it, and that doesn't make them innocent of crimes committed, but it certainly goes to punishment.

This has to be taken into consideration. Look at all the lies believed by some on the left and the eager support of election subversion that lead to. People being lead shamefully but seemingly sincerely wrong by manipulation of their weaknesses is common.

Now, all who engaged in systematic deception of the electorate and encouraged subversion, including media everywhere from Fox stars to slimey tweeters and bloggers -- I'd put them away for long, hard time.

Hopefully these dangerous times will have calmed down by the time this one's out.

[Lucky Luciano]

39. Stupidity is not an excuse. The 41 months should be for the assault of the cop.

The treason/sedition should be a separate charge. These people must be punished and destroyed.

[Hortensis]

40. Well, if our justice system gets taken over by a deeply angry

and viciously punitive political faction, you better just hope to hell it's yours. There'd be no guarantee of safety for you or anyone else in that situation, of course.

So this kind of thing should make smart people grateful for the various strong layers of legal and ethical protections between those brought to justice and angry mobs. While they last.

[Lucky Luciano]

41. So you don't think they tried to overthrow the government in a coup? Got it.

[whopis01]

42. He was facing up to 28 years

He plead guilty in order to obtain a much lesser sentence.

[msfiddlestix]

36. Wonder what the distinctions are between the Shaman and this dude? {apart from assault on Police)

I can't remember, but I don't think the Shaman attacked anyone. However he did do a lot of damage and there was that spear.

Just trying to figure out the distinctions and differences in crimes this guy was charged with and the charges the shaman faced in court.

Shaman gets 4 years, not sure which prison facility or what the specific charges ended up being.

there used to be this ongoing data base tracking arrests and convictions etc. Used to be posted here daily but haven't seen it in quite a while.

[traitorsgalore]

37. Thanks for posting, good news is always welcome

Hopefully these cretins getting long jail sentences will send ripples through magaworld and the GOPlague.

[MineralMan]

45. Some will say that's not enough, no doubt.

However, it's not an atypical low-time sentence. We're not going to imprison people for 20 years or life for hitting a cop.

I'm heartened to see that, as more serious offenses from January 6 are resulting in substantial sentences.

[fescuerescue]

46. Finally a real sentence

At least this one in particular won't be available to vote in the mid terms.