Ex-MMA fighter gets more than 3 years in prison for punching officer during Capitol riot

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Ex-MMA fighter gets more than 3 years in prison for punching officer during Capitol riot
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A New Jersey gym owner who punched a police officer during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was sentenced to more than 3 years in prison, the longest among 32 riot-related sentences handed down so far.

a prison sentence of three years and eight months for Fairlamb, saying he was among the first rioters to breach the Capitol and incited others to be violent.“QAnon Shaman.” Jacob Chansley,

Fairlamb joined a group of rioters who pushed through a line of police officers and metal barricades on the Capitol’s West Terrace. He recorded a video of himself shouting, “What patriots do? We f—————— disarm them and then we storm the f—————— Capitol!” Two days after the riot, Fairlamb said on a video that “they pulled the pin on the grenade, and the blackout is coming. What a time to be a patriot,” according to prosecutors.Fairlamb pleaded guilty to obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting the police officer. Sentencing guidelines calculated by the court’s probation department recommend a term of imprisonment ranging from 41 to 51 months.

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