'You’re going to die': Jan. 6 rioter who filmed himself assaulting officers pleads guilty

A Donald Trump supporter who filmed himself assaulting police officers and breaking into the Senate chamber on Jan. 6 pleaded guilty to two felony charges.

WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who filmed himself assaulting police officers and breaking into the Senate chamber during the Jan. 6 riot pleaded guilty Friday to two felony charges.

Tennessee resident Ronald Sandlin, 35, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers.

Sandlin's friends and co-conspirators, Nathaniel DeGrave and Josiah Colt, previously pleaded guilty: DeGrave to the same two felonies as Sandlin, Colt to felony obstruction.

Ronald Sandlin.U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.The trio attended the "Stop the Steal" rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, but watched Trump's speech from a TGI Fridays in Virginia where they were having lunch. After they arrived in D.C., Sandlin repeatedly referred to the U.S. Capitol as the "State Capitol building" before storming the building as alarms blared, court documents show. He then joined the mob to try to open fire doors to let more rioters in, grabbing an officer’s helmet in the process.

“Get out of the way! Your life is not worth it today,” Sandlin told officers, as he recorded himself. “You’re going to die, get out of the way!”

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/re-going-die-jan-6-rioter-filmed-assaulting-officers-pleads-guilty-rcna50263


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