Former Air Force officer who assaulted we A Capitol, dressed in combat uniform and carrying zip ties handcuffs into the Senate Gallery, was sentenced to two years in prison on Friday. Larry Bullock said on January 6, 2021, just minutes after then-Vice President Mike Pence, senators, and his staff had evacuated the floor and escaped a mob attacking the building, other mobs were killed on the Senate floor. joined the
U.S. District Judge John Bates also sentenced Brock to two years of supervised release after imprisonment and ordered him to perform 100 hours of community service.
Bullock, who refuses to speak in court before the judge has rendered his sentence, remains free until he must appear in prison on the day he is sentenced.
Prosecutors had recommended five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
Bates convicted Bullock in November after a no-jury trial. The judge said Bullock had expressed “extremely disturbing” violent rhetoric before the Jan. 6 riots.
The judge read aloud some of Bullock’s social media posts, calling it “genuinely amazing” that the former official voiced these words.
Bullock believed in an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from the Republican incumbent donald trumpsaid the prosecutor.
“Once we get to the bottom of this conspiracy, we need to execute the traitors who are trying to steal our elections. Brock wrote on November 9, 2020, in a Facebook post.
Judge John Bates said the post was “appalling and reflects the intent to stop certifying elections.”
In a Facebook message to another user on Christmas Eve, Block outlined what he called an “action plan if Congress doesn’t act” on Jan. 6. One of the “main tasks” he said of his plan was to “arrest all Democratic politicians and Biden.” Key staff and some Republicans. ”
“We will begin interrogations using the means used by al-Qaeda to obtain evidence regarding the coup,” he wrote.
A Texas native who lived in the Dallas area, Bullock served in combat duty in Afghanistan before retiring from the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel.
His “Action Plan” also called for “a general amnesty for all crimes, including the murder of those who restore the Constitution and suppress democratic rebellions.”
“Don’t kill LEO unless necessary,” he wrote, apparently referring to law enforcement officers.
Bullock was not involved in the violence on Jan. 6, but prosecutors said his actions were “disturbingly premeditated.”
“If the Senate Gallery had not been emptied minutes earlier, Bullock could have come face-to-face with the politician he dreamed of arresting and interrogating,” they wrote in court filings. .
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Bates found Bullock guilty of all six counts in his indictment, including obstruction of official process. Joe Bidenelection victory, obstruction is a felony. His five other counts are misdemeanors.
Defense attorney Charles Burnham said, “It is inconceivable that[Brock]was motivated by anything other than a genuine interest in democracy.”
“If Mr. Bullock was sincerely motivated by high ideals, his liability would be greatly reduced even if the court personally disagreed with his views,” Burnham said in court filings. I am writing to
Bullock attended the “Stop Stealing” rally Trump addressed a crowd of supporters on Jan. 6. He was wearing a helmet and tactical vest when he joined the mob that attacked the Capitol. entered the building through the door.
On the floor near the stairs in the East Rotunda, Brock picked up a discarded pair of zip ties. He had “flex cuffs” on his right hand in the Senate Gallery. On the Senate floor, he examined the papers on the Senator’s desk.
“This was consistent with the overall mandate that Bullock expressed on January 6, which is intelligence gathering to prevent authentication and transfer of power,” the prosecutor wrote.
Brock graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1989. He was on active duty until his 1998 and in the reserve until 2014.
In a letter to the judge, the retired Air Force Major General praised Brock’s military service. He said he flew under the peaks and headed for valleys “saturated with enemy forces”.
About 1,000 people have been indicted for federal crimes related to the Jan. 6 riots. More than 400 of them have been convicted, more than half of whom he has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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