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The Department of Justice has recommended that a convicted Pennsylvania barber January 6, 2021 Capitol riot they face 20 years behind bars.
Ryan Samsel was found guilty in February 2024 on multiple charges, including assault on federal officers, committing an act of physical violence on Capitol grounds and obstructing an official proceeding.
The DOJ proposed a sentence of 240 months in prison, three years of supervised release, $2,000 restitution and a fine, according to court documents.
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The Department of Justice has recommended that a Pennsylvania man convicted of multiple charges in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot spend 20 years in prison. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
“A sentence of 240 months in prison reflects the seriousness of Samsel’s conduct and provides sufficient deterrence given Samsel’s continued lack of remorse, active and public repetition of false narratives, violent criminal history, and interest in attacking the Capitol again” , the DOJ wrote in a memorandum.
Samsel was the first rioter to break the restricted perimeter of the Capitol with other supporters of the now president-elect. donald trump in an effort to delay the certification of President Biden’s 2020 election victory, according to the DOJ.
He was found guilty of verbally abusing officers, forcibly pushing and pulling metal barricades and assaulting an officer by lifting a metal barricade and hitting him in the face with it.
Ryan Samsel, who was convicted of multiple charges for his role in the Jan. 6 riot, was the first person to breach the Capitol perimeter that day, the DOJ said. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, file)
Police were subsequently overwhelmed as “the floodgates opened” and “thousands of rioters poured onto the west front of the U.S. Capitol grounds,” the DOJ said in the document.
“Samsel spent the next hour and a half terrorizing the police on the western front,” the document said. “He assaulted the police with his flag, took another officer’s shield, tore down scaffolding, shot the officers, took a 2×4 plank and threw it at the police line and threw a stick at a different police line.”
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Ryan Samsel was found guilty of verbally abusing officers at the Capitol, forcibly pushing and pulling metal barricades and assaulting an officer by lifting a metal barricade and hitting him in the face with it. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
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“Samsel was proud of his actions that day, taking time to record a selfie video during the riot and announce with a smile that he had breached the Capitol,” the DOJ wrote. “Samsel was still proud of his actions years later when he told an interviewer that his actions on January 6 were justified, because ‘sometimes civil disorder is necessary.'”
