Insurrectionists Cry At Sentencing After Crowd Surfing At The Capitol Riot Then Pepper Spraying Cops
New Yorkers James Phillip Mault and Cody Mattice stormed the Capitol together on January 6, 2021. On Friday they were sentenced together to 44 months in prison each...
"(Judge) Howell read from many of the messages, using the same profanity the men had. She noted that even after Mattice and Mault were aware of the impact of the riot, “they maintained some form of delusional belief that they were the patriots.”
A member of the United States Army who re-enlisted in the military after he pepper sprayed cops at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was sentenced to more than 3.5 years in prison on Friday.
James Mault was fired from his union job after the insurrection, but was able to re-enlist in the U.S. Army even though he had been interviewed by the FBI about his actions on Jan. 6. At the time of the initial FBI interview, the bureau was apparently unaware that he assaulted officers that day.
Chief Judge Beryl Howell sentenced Mault alongside his co-defendant Cody Mattice.
Both received 44 months in prison, as well as three years of supervised release. Howell said that Mault and Mattice had preplanned for violence.
Both men said they did. At that point, they said, they each grabbed canisters of pepper spray and sprayed them at police.
Mault and Mattice also admitted they taunted police, telling them, “Your jobs will be here when you come back after we kick the s*** out of everybody. "
Insurrectionists Cry At Sentencing After Crowd Surfing At The Capitol Riot Then Pepper Spraying Cops (dailykos.com)