A judge has ordered the "entitled" man who was photographed with his foot on Nancy Pelosi's desk to be kept in jail.
Per Buzzfeed News, Richard Barnett of Arkansas was being held in jail following the January 6 insurrection as he waited for his case going forward.
"His entitled behavior ... shows a total disregard for the law and for officials' directives," US District Chief Judge Beryl Howell said on Thursday (January 28). "A total disregard for the US Constitution."
A federal magistrate judge in Arkansas denied prosecutors' requests on January 15 to keep Barnett in custody and instead ordered that he be kept under house arrest.
Prosecutors had appealed to Howell on January 15 after their request to keep Barnett in custody pending trial was denied by a federal magistrate judge in Arkansas.
House arrest was ordered instead.
Howell said that the crimes Barnett was charged with on Thursday were "too benign" to capture the scale of what he and others did during the January 6 insurrection.
Barnett is currently facing one felony count of bringing a dangerous weapon into the Capitol (a walking stick shaped stun device) as well as two misdemeanor counts for violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds and theft of government property.
The theft was noted after he was photographed outside the building holding an envelope that he claimed to have taken from Pelosi's office.
In the video below, Tucker Carlson mocks AOC for saying her life was in danger during the Capitol riot:"What happened on that day is criminal activity that is destined to go down in the history books of this country," Howell said. "This was not a peaceful protest. Hundreds of people came to Washington, DC, to disrupt the transition of power and to thwart Congress, a branch of the federal government, in carrying out its duties, in fulfilling its constitutional task of officially certifying the votes of the Electoral College."
Howell explained that Washington residents are still living with the "consequences" of the Capitol riots, citing the deployment of the National Guard prior to President Biden's inauguration.
She said that the evidence against Barnett was "overwhelming," and described how he "strutted" into Pelosi's office and "felt so entitled he put his feet on the desk" and took her mail.
"Brazen, entitled, dangerous," the judge said of Barnett.
