"WASHINGTON — A Florida man who bragged he "broke the internet" when he was
photographed carrying House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's podium during the
Jan. 6 attack on the
U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 75 days in prison on Friday.
Adam Johnson, a
stay-at-home father of five boys, traveled to D.C. in support of former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost to President Joe Biden. U.S. District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton sentenced Johnson to prison on Friday, saying Johnson made "a mockery" of the events by grabbing Pelosi's lectern and played an active role in the attack. Walton said he just couldn't overlook Johnson's behavior, which he said was deserving of a period of incarceration. Johnson will get credit for some time he's already served, and will also pay a $5,000 fine.
"We're on a dangerous slide in America," Walton said Friday, calling what happened on Jan. 6 something you'd expect to "see in banana republics." W
alton asked Johnson how he could hold himself out as a good role model for his five children when he came to D.C. and did what he did on Jan. 6.
Johnson, speaking to the court on Friday, said he'd been "nothing but cooperative" with the government since his arrest, and said his actions demonstrated that he was apologetic and was "ashamed" to have been a part of the Capitol riot.
Johnson said he recognized that if he did what he did in another country, he'd be "on a firing wall instead of a courtroom." He claimed he had no intent to harm Pelosi.
"If I did find her, I would ask for a selfie with her, if anything," Johnson said.
Capitol rioter photographed with Pelosi's podium on Jan. 6 sentenced to prison (yahoo.com)
"If I did find her, I would ask for a selfie with her.."