Alan Hostetter, who was found to have carried a hatchet during the Capitol attack, cited Vivek Ramaswamy's suggestion at Wednesday's GOP debate that Jan. 6 was an "inside job."

WASHINGTON — A former California police chief who called for the execution of Donald Trump’s political enemies, joined the U.S. Capitol attack and then spread conspiracy theories about Jan. 6 was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison Thursday.

Alan Hostetter was found guilty in July on charges of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of an official proceeding, entering or remaining on restricted grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon and disorderly or disruptive conduct on restricted grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon. He represented himself at a bench trial before U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, a Ronald Reagan appointee, who sentenced him to 135 months Thursday.

Hostetter, who was the chief of the La Habra, California, Police Department in 2010, was arrested in June 2021.

  • Alien Nathan EdwardEnglish
    19•1 year ago

    My favorite part of all of these sentences is that Trump was still president for a few days after Jan 6 and absolutely could have issued a blanket pardon for everyone who participated in the riots. It would have cost him nothing and would have even further galvanized them in support of him. Instead, he chose to abandon them to their fate. He is incapable of thinking of anyone but himself.

    My second favorite part is that this idiot chose to represent himself like he was gonna just drop tRutH bOmBs and convince everyone that the riot was an antifa false flag and he wasn’t actually there. Eat shit and die in prison, traitor.

    • @theredroom@midwest.socialEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Irony of ironies – in the first pic, he’s wearing a shirt that says “be the lion, not the sheep”, emblazoned with an oh-so-majestic lion’s visage, which he oh-so-erroneously envisioned himself as. That is just too rich.