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