Ryan J. Reilly is a justice reporter for NBC News.
WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who assaulted law enforcement officers with bear spray and a metal whip — and who was arrested thanks to a woman’s sting operation on the dating app Bumble — was sentenced to just over six years in prison on Wednesday. Andrew Taake was arrested in 2021 and pleaded guilty in December to assaulting officers using a deadly or dangerous weapon.
“And based on reports from his pretrial detention, he has taken to using violence against other inmates to relieve his frustrations with his self-inflicted predicament.” In court Wednesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Madison Mumma said that Taake had committed at least six assaults on Jan. 6, including four using bear spray. Taake, she said, thought Trump’s election loss was the “beginning of the end for the United States” and vowed to take the fight “directly to the swamp creatures.
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