Feds seek 8 years for 'Bullhorn Lady' who smashed a Capitol window during Jan. 6 attack

[Eugene]

DU thread from July: 'Bullhorn Lady' who helped break into Capitol found guilty in Jan. 6 case

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Source: NBC News

Feds seek 8 years for 'Bullhorn Lady' who smashed a Capitol window during Jan. 6 attack

Rachel Powell, a mother of eight and grandmother of six, is holding onto hope that Donald Trump is re-elected and pardons her.

Oct. 12, 2023, 12:47 PM EDT
By Ryan J. Reilly

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are seeking eight years in federal prison for a Pennsylvania mother of eight who conducted "surveillance" on a lawmaker's home a few weeks before she smashed a window with an ice ax and a giant cardboard tube during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Rachel Powell, who was 40 when she took part in the 2021 attack, was found guilty in July of nine charges, including felony counts of interfering with officers performing their duties and obstruction of an official proceeding. A sentencing hearing for Powell, now a grandmother of six, is set for Oct. 17.

Powell was identified by online “Sedition Hunters,” was named and interviewed for a piece in The New Yorker that ran a few weeks after Jan. 6, and was arrested in early February 2021. She has been on home confinement since September 2022 after violating her prior conditions of pretrial release, including by visiting a brewery with her 71-year-old employer/boyfriend.

After Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, prosecutors said, Powell developed an "obsession with keeping former President Trump in power," and talked about how she had "conducted surveillance at a female legislator’s home." Powell joined "caravan" protests in Washington in November 2020, where she said she walked around "with a little beater bar all weekend and wasp spray and knives in my bag."

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/feds-seek-8-years-bullhorn-lady-smashed-capitol-window-jan-6-attack-rcna120064

[Skittles]

1. disgusting

where did she find the time

[Probatim]

2. Aged 40 - mother of 8, grandmother of 6, BF is 70 - and is facing federal charges.

You can't make this shit up.

Worst part, they'll take the kids and grandkids into consideration and give her a pat on the wrist that's reduced by home confinement time.

[GaYellowDawg]

3. She's a GILI

Grandmother I'd Like to Imprison

[crickets]

4. Good. K&R

[Talitha]

5. Lock. Her. Up.

[Ziggysmom]

6. Kids are better off without a POS like her, but it sounds like the whole lot of them

are riding the crazy magat train.

[sheshe2]

7. Okay that now makes her 42.

Did she start breeding at 15 or 16 to have 8 kids and now 6 grands!?