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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/16/us-capitol-riot-far-right-oath-keepers-guilty
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A member of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group and heavy metal
guitarist has become the first defendant to plead guilty to federal
charges in connection with the insurrection at the US Capitol.
Jon Ryan Schaffer, the frontman of the band Iced Earth, has agreed on
Friday to cooperate with investigators in hopes of getting a lighter
sentence, and the Justice Department will consider putting Schaffer in
the federal witness security program, a US district judge said.
Millions of Americans think the election was stolen. How worried should
we be about more violence?
This signals that federal prosecutors see him as a valuable cooperator
as they continue to investigate militia groups and other extremists
involved in the insurrection on 6 January as Congress was meeting to
certify Joe Biden’s electoral win.
Schaffer, a supporter of Donald Trump, was accused of storming the
Capitol and spraying police officers with bear spray. He pleaded guilty
in a deal with prosecutors in federal court in Washington to two counts:
obstruction of an official proceeding, and entering and remaining in a
restricted building with a dangerous or deadly weapon.
An email seeking comment was sent to an attorney for Schaffer.
Schaffer, of Columbus, Indiana, was wearing a tactical vest and baseball
hat that read Oath Keepers Lifetime Member on 6 January and acknowledged
in his plea agreement that he is a “founding lifetime member” of the
extremist group, prosecutors said.
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