The first rioter to breach the Senate floor after leaping from a balcony and the first person to plead guilty after the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was sentenced to 15 months in prison. Josiah Colt could be a “poster child” for making amends, his lawyer says.
to obstruct Congress’s confirmation of the 2020 election result was the clearest of any Jan. 6 case she has handled.
Colt apologized for his actions, saying that what he and others did was a “tragedy” and “a travesty that never should have happened,” interrupting the democratic process and destroying lives on both sides. Colt said that “there has to be a lot of forgiveness on both sides,” and said that the courts, Justice Department and legal system had begun to restore his faith in the country’s institutions.
“It’s game time. We are armored up, we got a gas mask. This is what separates us true patriots from everyone else who is all talk,” DeGrave recorded himself saying just before entering the Capitol. Inside, he told Colt and others that he punched an officer “like, five times”; directed Colt to throw open the Senate chamber doors to other rioters; and instructed Colt and others to “take laptops, paperwork, take everything.
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