{"id":1938057,"date":"2023-05-25T16:43:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T20:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/retired-firefighter-who-put-feet-up-on-pelosis-desk-sentenced-to-4-5-years-in-prison\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T16:44:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T20:44:36","slug":"retired-firefighter-who-put-feet-up-on-pelosis-desk-sentenced-to-4-5-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/retired-firefighter-who-put-feet-up-on-pelosis-desk-sentenced-to-4-5-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-firefighter who put feet on Pelosi&#8217;s desk gets 4.5 years in jail."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fretired-firefighter-who-put-feet-up-on-pelosis-desk-sentenced-to-4-5-years-in-prison%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1938057&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Retired Arkansas Firefighter Sentenced to Over Four Years in Prison for Placing Feet on Pelosi\u2019s Desk During Capitol Riot<\/h2>\n<p>A retired Arkansas firefighter, Richard \u201cBigo\u201d Barnett, has been sentenced to over four years in prison after he placed his feet on Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi\u2019s desk during the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. Barnett was convicted of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-gives-pardons-to-73-individuals-and-commutes-another-70-sentences-steve-bannon-is-included\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump Gives Pardons to 73 Individuals and Commutes Another 70 Sentences \u2013 Steve Bannon Is Included\">felony charges<\/a> of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding.<\/p>\n<p>Barnett, 62, was also accused of carrying a stun device into the Capitol, which he claimed had no batteries on January 6. He was given 54 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper and three years of supervised release and a $2,000 fine. Additional charges included theft of government property, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, and parading or demonstrating in a capitol building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the folks who follow \u2018Bigo\u2019 need to know the actions of January 6 cannot be repeated without some serious repercussions,\u201d Cooper said during the sentencing. The picture of Barnett with his feet on Pelosi\u2019s desk quickly became famous, something he said he did after photographers told him to \u201cact natural.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After he left the office, Barnett said that he left Pelosi a note on her desk.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI did not steal it,\u201d Barnett said, holding an envelope with Pelosi\u2019s letterhead on it. \u201cI bled on it because they were macing me and I couldn\u2019t f***ing see so I figured I am in her office. I got blood on her office. I put a quarter on her desk even though she ain\u2019t f***ing worth it. And I left a note on her desk that says, \u2018Nancy, Bigo was here you b***.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>There was later controversy over what word Barnett used on the note to describe Pelosi, with his lawyers arguing that he had written something less vulgar. Barnett told the court that he was sorry for his actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-gov-newsom-shares-annual-state-of-the-state-address-despite-facing-recall\/\" title=\"Calif. Gov. Newsom shares annual state-of-the-state address despite facing recall\">\u2019ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/morgan-wallens-sister-slams-cancel-culture-following-brothers-deplatforming-over-n-word-video-taped-by-neighbor-no-room-for-forgiveness-and-growth\/\" title=\"Morgan Wallen\u2019s Sister Slams \u2018Cancel Culture\u2019 Following Brother\u2019s Deplatforming Over N-Word Video Taped By Neighbor: \u2018No Room For Forgiveness And Growth\u2019\">made mistakes<\/a><\/a>. I have made mistakes. And I regret those mistakes. I\u2019ve gotten confused in my testimony. I went through hell up there. The officers went through hell up there. It was a horrible, horrible day,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph D. McBride, Barnett\u2019s defense lawyer, argued that his client was being treated unfairly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have literally made a federal case out of an act of stupidity that could have been dispensed with a ticket and a fine,\u201d he said. \u201cLadies and gentlemen of the jury, this is the government that our forefathers warned us about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oath-keepers-leader-gets-longest-january-6-sentence-to-date\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oath Keepers Leader Gets Longest January 6 Sentence To Date<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard &#8220;Bigo&#8221; Barnett, a retired Arkansas firefighter, has been sentenced to 54 months in prison for placing his feet on Democrat Rep. Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s desk during the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. He was convicted of felony charges of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1938058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[22546,11389,27633,12571,5471,9323],"class_list":["post-1938057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-4-5","tag-desk","tag-ex-firefighter","tag-feet","tag-jail","tag-pelosis"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1938058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}