Ex-Army officer who beat officers with a baton on Jan. 6 sentenced to prison
Edward Richmond, Jr., an ex-Army soldier who was court-martialed for shooting an Iraqi civilian, was sentenced to prison for assaulting police on Jan. 6, 2021.
WASHINGTON — An ex-soldier who was previously court-martialed for shooting a handcuffed Iraqi civilian was sentenced to over four years in federal prison Monday for assaulting officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Edward Richmond Jr. assaulted officers with a baton inside the lower west tunnel leading into the Capitol, where some of the worst violence on Jan. 6, 2021, took place, yelling, "We’ll break you motherf---er!" according to video evidence cited by prosecutors.
Richmond was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison after he pleaded guilty this year to a felony count of assaulting, resisting or impeding an officer with a deadly weapon.
The FBI arrested Richmond in January after online sleuths identified him as the man — whom they nicknamed “Buff Lightyear” — featured as No. 182 on the FBI's Capitol Violence website.
Back in 2004, Richmond was convicted of manslaughter for "shooting a hand-cuffed Iraqi cow herder in the head" and was sentenced to three years of military confinement, after which he was dishonorably discharged from the military, prosecutors said in his Jan. 6 case. Several news accounts at the time confirmed those details. Because of that and other factors, Richmond had been one of a limited number of Jan. 6 defendants who were ordered detained before trial.
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