HuffPost identified Robert Scott Palmer (center) as a member of the pro-Trump crowd that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. (Photo: Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Shutterstock)An enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump who assaulted law enforcement officers with a fire extinguisher while wearing an American flag sweatshirt emblazoned with Trump’s name should serve more than five years in federal prison, Justice Department prosecutors said Friday. He hung up when a HuffPost reporter asked him about assaulting cops with a fire extinguisher. “Law enforcement officers were overwhelmed, outnumbered, and in some cases, in serious danger. The FBI is searching for more than 350 people who engaged in felonious conduct on Jan. 6, including more than 250 members of the pro-Trump mob who assaulted law enforcement that day.

Source: Huffington Post December 11, 2021 02:08 UTC