A man who was a Princeton University student when he stormed the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to two months of incarceration.
FILE - This image of Larry Giberson, circled in annotation by the Justice Department in the statement of facts supporting the arrest Giberson, shows him outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6. 2021. was sentenced on Wednesday to two months of incarceration for interfering with police officers trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters.
"I don't believe my defining moment was there on the Lower West Terrace," he told the judge. "Instead, I believe my defining moment is now, standing before you."The judge, who also sentenced Giberson to six months of home detention after his term of imprisonment, described the New Jersey native's conduct in the tunnel as "reprehensible." But the judge said Giberson's youth weighed in favor of a more lenient sentence.
Giberson faced a backlash on campus after his arrest. The Daily Princetonian published an opinion piece in which a student argued that the university should have withheld Giberson's diploma. The"Some of us actually made national news," the student joked. "I guess you can say we're taking the country by storm!"
Giberson was a political science major "specializing in American ideas and institutions" with an interest in Constitutional law and interpretation, according to prosecutors. He had "concerns about the 2020 election" and told FBI agents that he went to the Capitol "to encourage what he believed to be the 'correct' certification" of the Electoral College vote, prosecutors said.
Giberson and his mother drove from New Jersey to Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 and attended then-President Donald Trump's "Stop the Steal" rally. They walked to the Capitol together but separated before Giberson went to the tunnel. The FBI posted images of Giberson on social media to seek the public's help in identifying him. Online sleuths also posted images of Giberson using the "#DragThemOut" hashtag.
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