Law & Crime reports:
A helmeted Proud Boy clad in armor and spiked gloves who hit an officer with a flagpole during the Jan. 6 riots and shouted a “guttural” battle cry from the movie “300” wants to get out of prison early. In a handwritten letter filed this week in federal court, Jim Robert Elliott — sentenced last year to 37 months in prison after his guilty plea for assaulting officers — said he regretted his actions. He said he’s ashamed that his wife and children carry the financial burden without him due to his recklessness on Jan. 6.
He says he is eligible for a reduction because he is a first-time offender, has complied with court orders, and has earned positive reviews from his supervisors for his work as a commissary clerk at FCI Ashland, a low-security federal lockup in Kentucky. Prosecutors countered the court should keep him locked up, saying the Proud Boys used the flagpole as a “jousting lance” and “whacked an officer with a wooden flagpole.” And that for assaulting cops that day, he got the lower end of the prescribed sentence.
Read the full article. There’s much more whining.
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