A Texas actual property agent who vowed she wouldn’t do any jail time after she entered the U.S. Capitol throughout the Jan. 6 attack on Congress was sentenced to 60 days in jail Thursday, court docket data present.
Jenna Ryan admitted to coming into the Capitol after a pro-Trump mob attacked it that day, however her lawyer argued that she didn’t incite any violence or injury any property, and was solely briefly within the constructing.
She pleaded responsible on Aug. 19 to 1 depend of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol constructing, a misdemeanor.
Two months after her arrest, Ryan tweeted, “Undoubtedly not going to jail. Sorry I’ve blonde hair white pores and skin an excellent job an excellent future and I am not going to jail” and “I did nothing incorrect” — which prosecutors cited in arguing for jail time.
Ryan, in a letter to the court docket, stated the tweet in query was in response to “bullies” who attacked her appears on social media.
“I responded again apologizing for my blonde hair however that I wasn’t getting jail,” she wrote. “I wasn’t saying I used to be above jail, I simply felt that it could be unlikely.”
A request for remark from her lawyer was not returned Thursday night time, and an try and discover a cellphone quantity for Ryan, who’s free on bond, was not instantly profitable. On-line court docket data didn’t seem to point out when her jail time period will start.
U.S. District Decide Christopher Cooper reportedly informed Ryan when handing down the sentence that she has grow to be “one of many faces of January 6.”
The decide stated the sentence ought to ship a message “that we take it severely, that it was an assault on our democracy . . . and that it ought to by no means occur once more,” in accordance with The Washington Post.
The misdemeanor depend carries as much as six months in jail, and prosecutors really helpful a sentence of 60 days.
Ryan has been outspoken in interviews about having no regrets.
Prosecutors stated she participated in and was “cheerleading” a violent assault on Congress to cease the counting of electoral votes, and which threatened the peaceable switch or energy.
Ryan claimed that she didn’t see any violence and was solely briefly contained in the constructing. However prosecutors argued that she went to the Capitol after boasting about seeing folks “climbing the partitions” on tv and saying “we’re gonna go down there and transfer them out of their chairs.”
Prosecutors responded that no affordable individual might interpret that as something however involving the usage of pressure.
