Rioter Thief Of Pelosi’s Laptop Sentenced To Three Years

The New York Times reports:

A Pennsylvania woman who steered a group of rioters toward Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on Jan. 6, 2021, and directed others inside the Capitol to steal a laptop computer was sentenced in Federal District Court in Washington on Thursday to three years in prison. The woman, Riley June Williams, 24, was convicted in November of several charges including felony civil disorder and impeding officers trying to defend the Capitol Rotunda.

Prosecutors reiterated their view on Thursday that Ms. Williams had acted as an “accelerant” at the Capitol attack by marshaling those around her to form a “human battering ram.” They said that Ms. Williams, who was 22 at the time, had become “obsessed” with the far-right activist Nick Fuentes and the Groyper Army. Ms. Williams boasted about stealing items from the speaker’s office while taking great pains to cover her tracks in the weeks after the riot, prosecutors said.

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Far-right extremist Riley Williams sentenced to 3 years in prison for storming Capitol on Jan. 6 https://t.co/qarbmHDiQ4

— ERIC_WATSON (@ERIC_WATSON) March 23, 2023

Riley Williams of Mechanicsburg had been accused of helping to steal Nancy Pelosi’s laptop during the January 2021 chaos. https://t.co/w6RcrPaPp8

— The Patriot-News (@PatriotNews) March 23, 2023

Riley Williams(23) infamous for stealing @SpeakerPelosi laptop got 3 years for her part in Insurrection

Feds say she is obsessed with #NickFuentes

She is a Groyper white nationalist with the goal of mainstreaming white supremacy into US conservatism. pic.twitter.com/P2UWiOhqTO

— Popitics (@Popitics1) March 23, 2023

NEW: Judge Amy Berman JACKSON dismantled the suggestio that Williams was too young or too small to be responsible for her actions on Jan. 6, like the defense claimed.

She was like the “coxswain on a crew team” directing to mob against police.https://t.co/TheB4BbTAF

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) March 23, 2023

Closing arguments this morning in the trial of Jan. 6 defendant Riley Williams, charged with aiding and abetting the theft of a laptop that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used for Zoom meetings.

Video presented at trial, released at the request of @NBCNews: pic.twitter.com/Y5U0fRjXWE

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 16, 2022