Another MAGAt insurrectionist is heading to prison for his violence on January 6 in service of his cult leader. Arkansas truck driver Peter Stager was sentenced Monday to 52 months in prison for assaulting a Metropolitan D.C. police officer with a flagpole (always the patriotic thing) multiple times. From the Associated Press:
"Peter Francis Stager struck the Metropolitan Police Department officer with his flagpole at least three times as other rioters pulled the officer, head first, into the crowd outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The bruised officer was among more than 100 police officers injured during the riot.
Stager also stood over and screamed profanities at another officer, who was seriously injured when several other rioters dragged him into the mob and beat him, according to federal prosecutors.
After the beatings, Stager was captured on video saying, 'Every single one of those Capitol law enforcement officers, death is the remedy. That is the only remedy they get.' [snip]
Stager assaulted the officer during one of the most violent episodes of Jan. 6 — a battle between rioters and police guarding an entrance to the Capitol building in a tunnel on the Lower West Terrace.
Stager’s actions at the Capitol 'were the epitome of disrespect for the law,' prosecutors said in a court filing.
'Stager joined a prolonged, multi-assailant attack on police officers, which resulted in injuries to the officers,' they wrote. 'Stager himself wielded a flagpole and used it to strike at a vulnerable officer, who, lying face down in a mob of rioters had no means of defending himself.'” (our emphasis)
The ringleader and his enablers have yet to face the full consequences of their actions leading up to and during the January 6 assault on our democracy. But when the time comes, lock. them. up.
(photo: Convict Stager. Department of Justice photo)
