Judge Wonders How So Many 'Law-Abiding' Americans 'Morphed Into Terrorists' On Jan. 6 - Yahoo News

A federal judge accepting a misdemeanor guilty plea from a woman who said she wanted to shoot House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “in the friggin’ brain” during the Capitol attack wondered aloud on Tuesday how many law-abiding Americans like her had “morphed into terrorists” on Jan. 6.

Dawn Bancroft of Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, was arrested on Jan. 29, a few weeks after she and her friend Diana Santos-Smith entered the Capitol during the riot. Bancroft, in a selfie video sent to a friend that was filmed as she and Santos-Smith left the Capitol building, expressed disappointment that Pelosi hadn’t been shot.

“We broke into the Capitol ... we got inside, we did our part,” Bancroft, wearing a “Make America Great Again” ski hat, said in the video. “We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin’ brain but we didn’t find her.”

Judge Emmet Sullivan accepted Bancroft’s guilty plea to a class B misdemeanor charge of “parading, demonstrating, or picketing” inside a Capitol building on Tuesday. That charge has been standard for many Capitol defendants charged with misdemeanors, although some judges have expressed concern that the charge doesn’t reflect the severity of Capitol rioters’ actions on Jan. 6. The charge comes with a maximum sentence of six months in prison.

At the hearing, Sullivan called Bancroft’s comments about Pelosi “very troubling,” “horrible” and “outrageous.” He asked a federal prosecutor on the case why it didn’t rise to the level of a threat. He said Bancroft was “very fortunate” that there was not a more serious charge, but later said he understood why the government decided not to charge it as a threat.

Bancroft told Judge Sullivan she made the “dumb, stupid comment” on her way back to the train home and got caught up in the moment.

Judge Sullivan said that the comments will certainly come up at Bancroft’s sentencing in January, and that she should prepare to explain her language at that point because it could have an impact on her sentence.

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