A Jan. 6 defendant who surged with the mob into Pelosi’s office and helped strategize ways for the mob to overcome police resistance was sentenced to 3 years in prison. A jury convicted Riley Williams of civil disorder and resisting police.
Riley Williams, left, covers her face as she arrive at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. District Courthouse on Nov. 18, 2022, in Washington, D.C. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesA Jan. 6 defendant who surged with the mob into Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and helped strategize ways for the mob to overcome police resistance was sentenced Thursday to 36 months in prison, ending one of the earliest and most unusual sagas to stem from the Capitol attack.
“She was not just a little waif blowing in the wind,” Jackson said, comparing Williams’ role in the mob to a “coxswain on a crew team.” A jury convicted Williams in December of civil disorder and resisting police but deadlocked on a charge that Williams obstructed Congress and abetted the theft of Pelosi’s laptop. Williams is on tape entering Pelosi’s conference room while other rioters took the laptop, and she encouraged them to steal it, but Williams’ lawyers contended that it was unclear if the other rioters heard her comment.
It was not, Jackson emphasized, “because her dizzy little head was confused about which building in Washington was which.”
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