Capitol rioter who said she wanted to shoot Pelosi, and just won GOP primary, is headed to prison
Bancroft pleaded guilty last year to a misdemeanor charge of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. The maximum sentence for the charge carried six months of incarceration and up to $5,000 in fines.Carina Laguzzi, Bancroft’s attorney, told The Washington Post that incarceration for the misdemeanor charge of trespassing is “overly punitive,” especially for people with no criminal history.
Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia told Bancroft her comments are not acceptable in a democratic society and stated that he felt sorry for her,“The comments made by you on the steps of the Capitol in the presence of others ... they were reckless statements that people should be held accountable for,” he said, according to CNN.
In May, Bancroft won a primary race to be the Republican candidate for committeeperson in Doylestown Borough’s 2nd District.that she had never met Bancroft and that the group will probably “have to have a conversation with her” about her sentencing and committee role.
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