A retired California police chief was sentenced to over 11 years in prison on Friday for his action during the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, the Department of Justice announced.
Alan Hostetter was convicted of four charges, consisting of obstruction of an official preceding and trespassing with a deadly weapon.
According to prosecutors, Hostetter planned with others for months to obstruct the Electoral Colelge vote count on Jan. 6, 2021. They said he believed that the 2020 election was stolen and called for a “reckoning.”
“There must — absolutely must — be a reckoning. There must be justice,” he told a group of Trump supporters, prosecutors said. “President Trump must be inaugurated on January 20th, and he must be allowed to finish this historic job of cleaning out the corruption in the cesspool known as Washington, D.C.”
“The enemies and traitors of America, both foreign and domestic, must be held accountable. And they will,” he continued. “There must long prison terms, while execution is the just punishment for the ringleaders of this coup.”
In another speech, prosecutors said Hostetter wanted members of Congress to feel like “those five million people outside the walls are gonna drag us out by our hair and tie us to a f—ing lamp post.”
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