Oath Keepers Member Gets More Than Eight Years for Role in Jan. 6 Riot
Posted on AllSides May 26th, 2023
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A scene from the trial of Oath Keepers members who were charged with seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack in Washington. WASHINGTON—A former member of the Oath Keepers militia was sentenced to 8½ years in prison Friday for her role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, about half the prison time the far-right group’s founder got a day earlier. Jessica Watkins, 40 years old, was sentenced during an emotional court hearing at a federal courthouse just steps from the Capitol complex she stormed two...
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