Capitol rioter who threw fire extinguisher at police gets more than 5 years in prison

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

A capitol rioter from Florida has been sentenced in federal court to more than five years in prison for assaulting police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

Why it matters: The sentence handed down to 54-year-old Robert Palmer is the longest given for any Capitol riot defendant so far.

Editor's note: This is a developing story and will be updated.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/capitol-riot-year-sentence-jan-6-insurrection-77e759ab-d1de-49a8-a736-f114acc7b6d5.html

[bearsfootball516]

1. Finally, a decent sentence.

So far, seems like all of the rioters were getting 1, 2, 3 month sentences.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. There was one for about 5 years, last week I think it was. Similarly violent crime. . . . nt

[jmowreader]

22. Yeah, Jacob Chansley, the "QAnon Shaman"

42 months, which should have been 45.

[rogue emissary]

21. +1

[ailsagirl]

34. Finally is right!!!

[3Hotdogs]

43. No Sanni Claws for him this year.

And next year,

And next year,

And next year,

And maybe even next year.

And I don't think he's gonna be playing golf at Club Fed either.

[olegramps]

61. I absolutely agree with you.

I cannot understand how any judge could allow those who are responsible for the actual attempt to violate the Constitution and would not consider it a major offense. This is outright treason in my estimation of the situation. I really think that five years is not enough.

[Bengus81]

62. Yep...and I can think of a HELL of alot of others who should have received the same...

Instead of those paltry 24-41 month BS sentences. Those Trump THUGS were trying to overthrow the Government and install Trump this time as a Fuehrer.

January 6th wasn't some Frat party gone wrong.

[Gore1FL]

2. This is more like it.

Frankly, I'd have liked to see more like this earlier for lesser offenses and the violent offenders approach double digits. Nonetheless, at least there are real consequences in a 5-year conviction.

[LogicFirst]

3. Way past time.

[Leghorn21]

4. YEAH BABY

YESSSSSSS

[Mr. Ected]

6. The Fashion Police should have arrested this guy before he became an insurrectionist

Another lost opportunity.

[ms liberty]

13. DUzY! n/t

[3auld6phart]

32. Spot on.

I’m damn near 86 and I don’t look that ugly And they
get away with desecrating your flag.His fashion is bad,
but I think I’ve seen some worse than that. Shameful.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

46. they were busy apprehending the QAnon Shaman.

[NurseJackie]

17. He may think he's tuff-stuff in a crowd... but in prison, he's in for a big surprise.

[Botany]

33. and that skinny little guy who is 1/2 his size will ..

... beat the shit out of him if that guy even looks at him funny.

[LuckyLib]

52. Imagine his grandchildren having that photo as a family heirloom!

[Alien Life Form]

5. Another Fake Confession of Remorse!

He got off lightly...

[keithbvadu2]

7. Back the Blue.... becomes 'Backstab the Blue'

Right Wing police slogans:::::: Empty slogans

Blue Lives Matter
Police lives matter
Back the Blue.... becomes 'Backstab the Blue'

Empty slogans

Link to tweet

----------------------------------
A slogan that Trump's terrorists/tourists believe in:::

'Kill him with his own gun'

[Bernardo de La Paz]

11. Any restraint or opposition to them is automatically "the enemy". They don't want ANY rules. . nt

[oldsoftie]

53. If i had been one of the cops I would've been firing my weapon as soon as they rushed me.

Sorry. And also another reason i could never be a cop.
But i bet that would've stopped the entire thing right at the beginning.

[msfiddlestix]

8. Good, I think.

I'm trying to remember... I feel like an officer that got his head smashed over the head with the fire extinguisher, and then later died in the hospital. but maybe I'm miss-remembering who got his with it and what happened as a result.

The article is silent on what happened with the person receiving the blow from both the fire extinguisher and the plank Palmer used as weapons.

[orangecrush]

16. Great point.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

55. None of the police who died have homicide listed in their autopsy

The one guy who died like the next day it went down as natural causes of some sort.

Forget if he was this guy's victim.

[msfiddlestix]

56. Officer Brian Sicknick was initially reported as Dying from Assault Injuries

Sometime yesterday I ended up googling the story to refresh my memory.

Reporting from NYT January 8th he died as a result of his assault injuries,, but in February the report was updated to align with official line of "stroke".

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/brian-sicknick-police-capitol-dies.html


But here's the deal. We know that he didn't die of natural causes as claimed by the medical examiner.

I will make no further comment, because now I understand the reason for the delayed prosecutions of the more serious crimes on J6.

memories fade, official statements and determinations of events seem to understate or minimize the very nature and character of events as they unfolded.

"moving on" with the on going psy ops campaign so that we can pretend there's really not much to see here.

Because, We collectively as a society do not know how to deal with events of the past five years, much worse the J6 Insurrection/Coup attempt.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

57. I agree it's pretty suspicious, that's why I worded it that way ...

Bottom-line the ME report is what matters when it comes to prosecution for something like this.

Even if it's a bit Epstein-esque.

[msfiddlestix]

60. Epstein-esque is an apt description, imo

Every passing day it feels like the public is being served what has become over several decades a sort of 'status quo' treatment of serious criminality involving people in positions of power and wealth.

It may have been naive of me to hope for anything else, but I did have hope for a minute or two just the same.

At some point yesterday morning, it dawned on me, that it is perceived by our current administration, that our institutions and the people running it simply cannot handle dealing with it. Either intellectually, or emotionally I guess.

[George II]

10. That's great news! He was probably the most blatant police attacker. Lots of time to stew....

...and think about his actions.

[Cha]

48. And ponder what a

stupid traitor he was following the fffg off the cliff.

That's 5 years of his life in a pit.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

12. Why does it take a judge learned in the law and evidence to say such things like:

"It has to be made clear ... trying to stop the peaceful transition of power and assaulting law enforcement officers is going to be met with certain punishment," said Chutkan, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.“

Here it is in a nutshell, on a silver plate.

Journalists and editors of America, the CEOs, are you stupider than a judge? Are you going to present any evidence this judge is wrong in any way?

To Prevent the Peaceful Transition of Power.

Obvious, so are is anyone in true journalism or not Fox News pretending the Republican Party was, and still is, not party to all this, meaning the Big Lie is a coverup attempt of Sedition Day, obvious to me.

What more evidence do you need?

[Traildogbob]

14. Whole lotta

Florida Man’s. Do these people eat algae blooms and drink red tide water for fun? Sorry to the good ones there, but that damn state is fucked up. Do they stay on the trump mailing list while serving so he can scam more cash from them?

[NurseJackie]

15. The prosecutor had some very strong and compelling evidence...

... I presume that this was a plea deal of some sort. I wonder what the maximum punishment would have been if he had decided to take this all the way to a jury trial (and lost).

[reACTIONary]

50. It was a plea deal, but the deal was broken....

... when he lied in a fund raising appeal. The prosecutor pointed out that this indicated lack of remorse and they increased the sentencing range.

[Bettie]

18. Good

a decent sentence.

[bucolic_frolic]

19. That act could have killed someone

He still got off light.

[Sherman A1]

20. Better, but not near enough

no where near enough.

[DENVERPOPS]

23. Does he get to serve the sentence

at a "Camp Cupcake" low security prison?????????

The sentence given is often reduced by a big chunk for good behavior, time already served, etc etc

He and the rest of these assholes will wear their crimes and sentence as a badge of honor.......

Maybe Trump will design an award, bring them down to Mar a Dorko, and put it around their necks in a ceremony attracting tons of Donors to grift money in the process.........

[MarineCombatEngineer]

30. He's going to Federal Prison,

and he ain't going to no country club fed prison, he pled guilty to violent felony and in USDOC, you have to serve at least 85% of your sentence, that's with good time off and there is no parole in the Fed. prison system.

[DENVERPOPS]

36. THX

Anything short of SuperMax for them is too little as far as I am concerned. The problem would be that supermax would run out of cells really quick for all those in the insurrection.....

[MarineCombatEngineer]

37. Then we build more SuperMax.

[DENVERPOPS]

38. Hey MCE, how you doing!?!

How about we just load up planes with all of them, and deport them to Russia??????????

[MarineCombatEngineer]

39. Now there's an idea that I could definitely get behind.

Been doing pretty good, bought a second truck, hired a lady trucker friend away from JB Hunt to drive my blue Peterbilt, right now, my new truck is getting it's B service and a new clutch and then it's back on the road.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

40. Hope everything is going well for you and your family.

Have a merry christmas and a very happy and prosperous new year.

[DENVERPOPS]

47. Right back at ya

Please stay safe and warm!

[Lunabell]

24. Excellent!

Back the blue my ass!

[Zorro]

25. More info here

https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2021/12/17/largo-capitol-rioter-sentenced-to-more-than-5-years-toughest-sentence-yet/

[srose58089]

26. From the Washington Post (4 paragraphs) is paywall

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/17/palmer-sentenced-fire-extinguisher-jan-6/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert&wpmk=1&wpisrc=al_news__alert-national&pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJjb29raWVuYW1lIjoid3BfY3J0aWQiLCJpc3MiOiJDYXJ0YSIsImNvb2tpZXZhbHVlIjoiNWUzZjc0OGY5YmJjMGY2MzI2Zjc1ODBlIiwidGFnIjoid3BfbmV3c19hbGVydF9yZXZlcmUiLCJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vZGMtbWQtdmEvMjAyMS8xMi8xNy9wYWxtZXItc2VudGVuY2VkLWZpcmUtZXh0aW5ndWlzaGVyLWphbi02Lz91dG1fc291cmNlPWFsZXJ0JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPXdwX25ld3NfYWxlcnRfcmV2ZXJlJmxvY2F0aW9uPWFsZXJ0JndwbWs9MSZ3cGlzcmM9YWxfbmV3c19fYWxlcnQtbmF0aW9uYWwifQ.YsScLbU7ILO7lkDA-1eMz7MJfeqQFo0uBdBvWTafnQ8

A man who watched and cheered the Capitol riot, then moved to the front of the mob and hurled a fire extinguisher, a plank and a long pole at officers, was sentenced Friday to more than five years in federal prison, the longest sentence given so far to someone charged in the Jan. 6 attack.

"Robert S. Palmer, 54, of Largo, Fla., pleaded guilty in October to assaulting law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon, and his original plea agreement called for a sentencing range of 46 to 57 months. But after his plea, and his entry into the D.C. jail, Palmer arranged to make an online fundraising plea in which he said he did “go on the defense and throw a fire extinguisher at the police” after being shot with rubber bullets and tear gas.

That was a lie, Palmer admitted Friday. He had thrown a fire extinguisher — twice — a large plank and then a four- to five-foot pole at police before he was struck with one rubber bullet. The lie indicated a failure to accept responsibility for his actions, prosecutors argued, and when U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan agreed, she increased his sentencing range to 63 to 78 months, ultimately imposing a 63-month term.

“Look behind you,” Chutkan instructed Palmer in the courtroom. “Those are U.S. marshals. They ran from this courthouse. They put themselves in danger to protect the occupants of the Capitol. That’s what they’re sworn to do. They’re the patriots. The people working in the Capitol that night, they are patriots. Doing what they get paid to do, they didn’t know if they were going to come out of there alive that night.”

[Grokenstein]

27. No worries, bub. TheDonster will pardon you!

Just as soon as the day of the Great Reinstatement arrives!
He totally knows who you are and honors your "service"!

[Bayard]

28. Isn't this the guy that hit the officer that died?

[msfiddlestix]

31. That's exactly my memory...

I keep looking for the information in the reports linked in this thread, but no mentions or references are made.

If I had time, I would do the research, but I don't have that time right now. I hope someone so inclined will respond.

But thank you for bringing that question up.

[bearsfootball516]

41. If it was, he got off easy.

Should have been charged with murder.

[SergeStorms]

29. Bravo!

Finally, some of these assholes are getting what they deserve.

Now, I want a prison sentence that's equal to, or greater than, this sentence for The Orange Pig. He deserves life without possibility of parole.

[11 Bravo]

35. And POOF, Florida man turns into Federal Prison man. What a pity.

[keithbvadu2]

51. Federal Prison man

Can Trump pardon him 'when' he wins in 2024?

[Captain Zero]

42. He wanted 4 more for rump; instead he got 5 !

Works for me...

[Roy Rolling]

44. Messages

Sometimes everyone demands someone “send a message”. How difficult would it have been to first throw the book at some of them, and way overdo it on other of the most egregious insurrectionists?

Let that message soak the media for a year or two until the appeals courts may reduce the sentences or let good behavior earn them some freedom.

Not the other way around…light sentences first.

I hate messaging, I prefer blunt candor, but if you’re gonna demand messaging know how to perform it for your benefit.

[AZLD4Candidate]

45. They honestly thought Trump would pay their attorney's fee as he said on 2016 when

he barked to get a protestor out and rough him up.

[DENVERPOPS]

49. Hell, Trump isn't even paying his own legal fees

The RNC just gave Trump a ton of money for his own personal defense team...

[Sneederbunk]

54. Doubt he will be allowed to wear MAGA cap while in stir.

[COL Mustard]

58. Should Have Had A Zero Added To The End

50 years sounds about right to me.

[NBachers]

59. I hope someone throws a fire extinguisher, a plank and a long pole at him every day in prison.

Robert Palmer: Parade of the Obliterators Gotta watch it on YouTube

[YoshidaYui]

63. he should have gotten 20 years

fuck him!

[DENVERPOPS]

64. I want to see anyone reading this

confront one of their local police by hitting him on the head with a fire extinguisher and see if they get off with a mere five years.
Especially when two days later he or she dies from a brain injury........Stroke my ass.............