The far-right Pennsylvania lady who broke into Nancy Pelosi’s workplace on Jan. 6 and helped steal the previous Speaker’s gavel and laptop computer was sentenced to a few years in jail right this moment.

Prosecutors mentioned Riley June Williams, who was 22 on the time, “led a military” of rioters by the Capitol and “acted as an accelerant, exacerbating the mayhem. The place others turned again, she pushed ahead,” in keeping with AP Information.

Earlier than the revolt, Williams had been “obsessed” with white nationalist Nick Fuentes — whose convention Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke eventually 12 months — and was “fixated” on Donald Trump’s lie that the election was stolen, a falsehood that Fuentes helped push, in keeping with prosecutors.

Whereas prosecutors pushed for a jail time period of seven years and three months, protection attorneys requested for only one 12 months and someday.

From AP Information:

A federal jury convicted Williams in November of six expenses, together with a felony rely of civil dysfunction, after a two-week trial. However it deadlocked on two different counts, together with “aiding and abetting” the laptop computer’s theft.

Jurors additionally deadlocked on a cost of obstructing an official continuing, the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. Then-Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress evacuated the Home and Senate chambers when rioters attacked the Capitol. …

Jackson additionally sentenced Williams to a few years of supervised launch after her jail time period and ordered her to pay $2,000 in restitution, in keeping with the U.S. lawyer’s workplace for the District of Columbia. …

Williams used males carrying helmets and physique armor like a “human battering ram,” pushing them ahead to interrupt by police traces contained in the Capitol, prosecutors mentioned. Coming into Pelosi’s essential convention room, she stole a gavel and inspired one other rioter to take a laptop computer from atop a desk, in keeping with prosecutors. …

Williams bragged on-line that she stole Pelosi’s gavel, laptop computer and exhausting drives and that she “gave the digital gadgets, or tried to present them, to unspecified Russian people,” prosecutors mentioned in a June 2022 court docket submitting.

Williams’ younger age makes her case particularly unlucky.

“In some respects, she is starkly totally different from the typical January sixth defendant – significantly given her youth and that she is a feminine,” the protection wrote. “In different methods she is much like lots of different January sixth defendants with no prior felony document, that have been caught up with the mob that day, appearing on impulse and with out thought to the results of their actions.”

Earlier than the sentencing, she mentioned she was embarrassed by what a “younger and silly lady” she acted like in 2021, in keeping with WGAL, and that she has since change into a “accountable lady.”