Politics] Infowars host Owen Shroyer sentenced to 60 days in Jan. 6 case

[FRIDAY THE 13]

 

WASHINGTON — A host of the far-right media outlet Infowars was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Owen Shroyer is one of only a handful of Jan. 6 participants charged with a crime despite having neither entered the Capitol building nor been accused of committing violence or destruction on Capitol grounds. Prosecutors charged Shroyer because he had previously signed a deferred prosecution agreement after he interrupted a congressional hearing in 2019 and had agreed as part of that case not to utter “loud, threatening, or abusive language, or to engage in any disorderly or disruptive conduct, at any place upon the United States Capitol Grounds.”

About 1,100 defendants have been charged in connection with the Capitol attack in 2021, and more than 600 have been sentenced, more than 370 of them to periods of incarceration.

“Democrats are posing as communists, but we know what they really are: They’re just tyrants; they’re tyrants,” Shroyer said on a bullhorn as he led a crowd to the Capitol on Jan. 6. “And so today, on Jan. 6, we declare death to tyranny! Death to tyrants!”

 

link :  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/infowars-host-owen-shroyer-sentenced-jan-6-case-rcna104378