Robert Gieswein pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting police. He faces an estimated sentencing range of 41 to 51 months.
Robert Gieswein, 26, of Woodland Park, Colo., stood out in that day’s video recordings, carrying a baseball bat and wearing paramilitary gear with a black pouch on his chest that said, “MY MOM THINKS I’M SPECIAL.” He faces an estimated range of 41 to 51 months months at sentencing June 9 in a plea deal with prosecutors, who agreed to drop the rest of an 11-count indictment, including four other police assault charges.
In plea papers, Gieswein said that before the attack, he gave a media interview in which he said he hoped to keep former president Donald Trump in office. He said he marched with Proud Boys for three hours that morning, rushed through a police line at Peace Circle and threw a water bottle at officers guarding the West Plaza. He then sprayed aerosol irritant at two groups of police defending an Upper West Terrace stairway, according to his plea papers.Gieswein was recorded with the lead group that was the first to breach the building using a riot shield and a piece of lumber.
He sprayed two more groups of officers there, he admitted, injuring one and attempting to punch another.The same prosecutors handling Gieswein’s case are also handling the trial of five Proud Boys leaders on seditious conspiracy and other charges. Government charging papers for that group initially described one of them, Ethan Nordean, as engaging “in a brief exchange” with Gieswein near the Capitol.
Kenerson did not elaborate. Carmen Hernandez, attorney for another co-defendant, Zachary Rehl, said at the same hearing that Gieswein was invited to march with the Proud Boys by a Kansas member who was an FBI informant, drawing a government objection. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to comment. Gieswein’s attorney and the FBI could not immediately be reached.
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