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Jacob Chansley, branded the “Q Anon Shaman,” has reportedly been released from prison early after being sentenced to 41 months behind bars stemming from the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021.
Chansley, 35, was released from prison this week, the Daily Mail reported:
Earlier this week, Chansley was transferred from FCI Stafford federal prison in Arizona to community confinement in the Phoenix area, after serving just under 27 total months in prison, a Bureau of Prisons (BOP) spokesman confirmed in a statement to DailyMail.com on Thursday.
The spokesman declined to comment on the reason for the transfer, but pointed generally to federal laws that allow for good-conduct sentence reductions, as well as release to a halfway house for the final 12 months of a sentence.
Chansley’s lawyer Bill Shipley confirmed the release in a tweet, Fox 10 Phoenix reported.
His release comes weeks after Fox News Channel’s Tucker Carlson aired footage of the Capitol riot, which House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) provided to him and which had never before been seen publicly. In total, McCarthy gave Carlson some 40,000 hours of footage and later told Breitbart News Washington Bureau Chief Matthew Boyle that he would release all of the footage publicly.
🚨BREAKING: Never before seen video of January 6 shows Jacob Chansley, the QAnon Shaman, being led through the Capitol by police the entire time that he was in the building. pic.twitter.com/rikoRMWezF
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) March 7, 2023
As Breitbart News Senior Editor Joel Pollak noted:
In the case of Chansley, whose buffalo-horned costume became the iconic image of the Capitol riot, Carlson showed Capitol Police guiding him through hallways and even opening locked doors to the Senate chamber.
Chansley, who served in the U.S. Navy, would later say in a jailhouse interview that he regretted not knowing that he was breaking the law, trusting that because police officers were helping him, his actions were condoned.
However, “[a] former federal prosecutor unconnected with the case said it was doubtful public pressure played a role in Chansley’s transfer, noting the move appears ‘kind of routine’ under BOP guidelines,” the Daily Mail noted.
“Men of honor admit when they’re wrong,” Chansley told the court. “I was wrong for entering the Capitol. I had no excuse.”
CONGRESSMAN BENNY THOMPSON NEEDS TO BE CHARGED AND INDICTED FOR HUGE CIVIL RIGHTS VIOLATIONS INCURRED IN THE FALSE JAILING OF PROTESTORS-ASD IT IS NOW A PROVEN DEMOCRAT CONSPIRACY AIDED BY A WEAPONIZED FBI
The American citizenry have the right to see all of the video footage of January 6th.Capitol chaos.
So many “confusanews” stories like this remind me of Elaine on Seinfeld admitting to Jerry that well, what he had believed was FAKE fake FAKE Fake FAKE! Open the Bible. More useful truth THERE than in ANY newspaper EVER written in the history of this planet. Generally speaking of course.
The Shaman should be very careful about his life, he might know, or have information about Jan6 that the left may not want out there
If I withheld video that could prove someone innocent or guilty I would be considered GUILTY of withholding evidence. These are criminals NOT politicians!