From the Justice Department:
A Texas man was sentenced today for the felony charge of assaulting a police officer related to his conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.
His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election.
Brian Scott Jackson, 48, of Katy, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras to 37 months in prison; 36 months of supervised release, including an obligation to serve 60 hours of community service within the first 12 months; and $2,000 restitution.
Jackson pleaded guilty on February 28, 2024 to assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers.
According to court documents, Jackson traveled from Texas to Washington, D.C., with his brother, co-defendant Adam Lejay Jackson, and a friend to protest Congress’ certification of the Electoral College.
The three attended the “‘Stop the Steal” rally on the Ellipse and later made their way to the West Plaza of the Capitol grounds.
Brian Jackson then recorded a video and posted it to his Facebook account. In the video, Adam Jackson appears to be holding a police shield, and Brian Jackson states that, “Adam got a god-damned shield, stole it from the f— ing popo!”
The trio then made their way to the Lower West Terrace. On the Lower West Terrace, police had formed a defensive line at the mouth of an archway leading to an entrance to the Capitol building known as the Tunnel.
The Tunnel was created by the construction of the Inauguration stage and the site of some of the most violent attacks against law enforcement on January 6th.
Rioters at the Tunnel battled police officers for hours as they attempted to storm the Capitol building.
Court documents say that Adam Jackson rammed the police line with his stolen police riot shield. Seconds later, Brian Jackson threw a long, tan-colored flagpole with an attached American flag like a spear at the officers in the Tunnel.
After the events of January 6th, Jackson sent several text messages expressing his pride in regard to having participated in the violence at the Capitol.
One message read, “We love our president and we stood up for America today be proud we did it and f— these hoe ass cops that are traitors we f— ed up that capital up today !!!”
Law & Crime reports:
Before Brian Scott Jackson of Texas was sentenced on Tuesday to roughly three years in prison for assaulting police on Jan. 6, 2021, his attorneys urged a federal judge in a July sentencing memorandum to disregard the white supremacist tattoos on their client’s body or the text messages in evidence where Jackson employed racial slurs to describe police in Washington, D.C.
Instead, they asked a judge to consider that Jackson couldn’t afford to have the tattoos removed and this was particularly painful for him in light of the fact that his “best friend is African American.” Jackson has said his tattoos are the byproduct of his time previously incarcerated in Texas where prisons were “overrun by competing gangs” who forced him to choose a side to survive.
Jackson also has a large swastika tattoo in the middle of his back. During the sentencing hearing, the judge laid into Jackson’s lawyer for suggesting that the injured officers were at fault for not wearing enough protective gear. As noted below, this is his 11th felony conviction.
#CapesHarley SENTENCED to 37 months in prison; 36 months of supervised release, including 60 hours of community service, $2,000 restitution for his role in the #Jan6 coup
Brian Scott Jackson of Katy, TX#J6 #January6th #insurrectionist #Traitors #terrorist https://t.co/WfJa8SapOT pic.twitter.com/3lvrpUSxWU— Rocketman (@rocketman2001) August 7, 2024
NEW: Brian Jackson was sentenced to 3 years in prison today for hurling a flagpole at police on Jan. 6.
His brother, Adam Lejay Jackson, was sentenced earlier this year for assaulting police with a stolen riot shield. https://t.co/J2u3NqUOCY
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) August 6, 2024
Brian Jackson has been held without bond since his arrest in June 2022, so he’ll receive approximately 26 months of credit toward his sentence.
Per DOJ’s sentencing memo, this will be his 11th sentence of incarceration. https://t.co/J2u3NqUOCY
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) August 6, 2024