Sentenced to four years in prison one of the assailants of the Capitol who attacked a police officer with a flag

A federal court has sentenced this Monday to four years in prison Peter Stager, one of the assailants of the Capitol on January 6, 2021, who had repeatedly hit a Police officer, Blake Miller, with a flag pole while the agent was dragged down the stairs.

Judge Rudolph Contreras has sentenced the defendant to 52 months in prison despite the fact that prosecutors had requested six and a half years in jail citing Stager's “chilling motivation” and the brutality of the assault.

Stager, in court, has defended himself by indicating that he thought the agent was a member of Antifa, since he only saw the policeman's shoes, which he found “somewhat strange” because he was wearing military equipment and hiking boots, reports NBC.

That same day, the assailant appeared in a video pointing to the Capitol building saying that “everyone in there is a disgrace.”. “The whole building is full of traitors. Death is the only remedy for what is in that building,” according to the Department of Justice.

Stager's legal team has asserted that their client was “deeply sorry for his conduct,” telling the magistrate that the rehabilitative function of incarceration had already been accomplished because he had served more than two years in federal custody.

The lawyers told the magistrate, as has happened in the case of other defendants in the assault on the Capitol, that Stager experienced a traumatic childhood, according to The New York Times newspaper.

In addition, they have pointed to former President Donald Trump as guilty of assault, since the person under investigation attended a meeting of the former president on the morning of January 6: “This decision is one that Stager will regret for the rest of his life,” indicates his defense.

Since the assault on the Capitol, more than a thousand people have been arrested in almost all states for crimes related to the seizure of the headquarters of the US Congress.