4.5 years’ jail for Capitol rioter who put feet on Pelosi’s desk


A file picture shows Richard Barnett leaning back in a chair with his boots propped up on a desk in the office of then House speaker Nancy Pelosi at the US Capitol building, January 6, 2021. The 63-year-old was sentenced to four and a half years in prison over the offence. – AFP pic, May 25, 2023.

AN Arkansas man photographed with his feet on a desk in House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office after joining the mob that stormed the US Capitol in 2021 was sentenced yesterday to four and a half years in prison.

Richard Barnett, 63, was leaning back in a chair with his boots propped up on a desk in the office of the Democratic politician when he had his picture taken by an AFP photographer.


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