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Judge: Tape shows Chansley’s ‘detachment from reality’ in riot defense
Monday, March 22, 2021
Cronkite News
WASHINGTON – An attorney for Arizona native Jacob Chansley, the face-painted “Q-Anon Shaman” charged in the January 6 Capitol insurrection, dismissed new government video showing his client as part of the mob that broke into the building and confronted police.
The attorney, Albert Watkins, said two videos released this week are “one-dimensional snippets” that lack context over Chansley’s participation in the riot that sent lawmakers scrambling for cover and temporarily halted the certification of President Joe Biden’s election.
But the judge in the case
said the video
shows that Chansley’s “perception of his actions on January 6th as peaceful, benign and well-intentioned shows a detachment from reality.” U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ordered the videos made public this week as part of his order denying Chansley’s request to be released from jail while awaiting trial.
Chansley, who also goes by the name Jake Angeli, is one of at least four
Arizona residents
who are among the 254 charged so far by federal prosecutors in the January 6 riot, when a crowd of former President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol to halt what they believed was a stolen election.
Note: This story originally appeared on Cronkite News. It is published via a Creative Commons license. Cronkite News is produced by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.
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