A Texas man will spend nearly two years behind bars for his role in the Jan. 6 riot in which he grappled with cops and stayed inside the U.S. Capitol grounds for about two hours as they prevented Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 Presidential election.
U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell on Friday sentenced 33-year-old Dustin Ray Williams to 22 months in prison followed by three years of probation, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia . Williams pleaded guilty on July 11 to assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers.
FBI agents received a tip in the days following the riot after Williams posted a video on Facebook describing the “TRUTH” about the riots, a criminal complaint said. He claimed he did not commit any violence or vandalism. He described the rally in which then-President Donald Trump fed his supporters lies about a stolen election as peaceful. Williams then peddled the debunked theory that the riot was “a sophisticated, orchestrated infiltration conducted by Antifa and funded by the ‘Swamp.’”…