Jacob Chansley, the man who participated in the assault on the United States Capitol disguised as a bison, was sentenced this Wednesday to 41 months in prison - three years and five months in jail - in a federal court in the country.
"What you did was terrible," Judge Royce Lamberth, of a federal court in the District of Columbia, said Wednesday during the hearing to read the sentence.
Despite believing that Chansley's expressed remorse is genuine, Lamberth stressed that the crime committed by what is known in the US as the "QAnon shaman" is so "serious" that it does not justify a lesser sentence.
At the hearing, Chansley told the judge that he made a mistake entering the Capitol. "I have no excuses," said this man, who added that his behavior that day is "indefensible."
In September, Chansley, a native of Arizona, pleaded guilty to a charge of obstructing official proceedings during a session of Congress on Jan. 6, when the Capitol storming took place.
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By said guilty plea, which was part of an agreement with the Prosecutor's Office, Chansley accepted a recommended sentence of between 41 and 51 months in prison, although the time he has been in prison since January 9 will be discounted .
Chansley, an adherent of the conspiracy theories of the Qanon movement, became the most mediatic assailant of the Capitol since he did it disguised as a bison and got to sit in the chair of the president of the Senate.
He was arrested three days later and has remained behind bars ever since, although media interest in him continued after he demanded to be offered organic food in jail and refused to eat for nine days until he did.
The prosecution had requested a sentence for Chansley of 51 months in prison.
During the hearing this Wednesday, the prosecutor showed a video of the defendant yelling inside the headquarters of Congress and insulting legislators.
The Justice Department maintains that Chansley was one of the first 30 people to enter the Capitol, followed by hundreds.
The mob of followers of the then president of the United States, Donald Trump (2017-2021), managed to interrupt for a few hours the joint session of both houses of Congress that was held that day to ratify the victory in the presidential elections in November of 2020 of the current president, Democrat Joe Biden.
So far, more than 600 people have been charged in federal courts for the assault on the Capitol.
The sentence against Chansley follows the one handed down last week by the same judge against a man who hit a police officer during the assault on the Capitol, who was also sentenced to 3 years and 5 months in prison.
These two are the highest sentences ordered so far against defendants for that event.