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Jay Johnston, comedian from ‘Anchorman’ and ‘Mr. Show’, sentenced in Jan. 6 Capitol attack

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Jay Johnston, comedian from 'Anchorman' and 'Mr. Show', sentenced in Jan. 6 Capitol attack

WASHINGTON — A Hollywood actor who had supporting roles in “Anchorman,” “Mr. Show,” “Arrested Development” and “Bob’s Burgers” was sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison on Monday for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Jay Johnston was arrested in June 2023 and pleaded guilty in July to a felony offense of obstructing officers during a civil disorder. Johnston had long been identified as a participant in the chaos even before his arrest, and some of the professional consequences — including no longer being featured as a voice in “Bob’s Burgers” — hit long before the legal repercussions.

Federal prosecutors had sought 18 months in federal prison for Johnston, topping their sentencing memo off with a photo of Johnston in which he “made light of his participation in the riot by dressing up as Jacob Chansley, known as the ‘QAnon Shaman,’ at a Halloween party that he attended” two years after the attack.

Jay Johnston dressed up as Jacob Chansley, known as the “QAnon Shaman,” at a Halloween party in 2022.U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

Prosecutors said that on Jan. 6, 2021, Johnston spent about 10 minutes in the lower west tunnel that leads into the Capitol, where some of the worst violence of the attack took place. “During that time, he: (1) helped at least four other rioters wash their eyes out after being sprayed with OC spray; (2) used a stolen United States Capitol Police riot shield to make a “shield wall” against the police inside the tunnel; and (3) participated in “heave-ho” push that pinned and crushed MPD Officer Daniel Hodges against a door frame,” federal prosecutors wrote.

Despite “his clear knowledge of, and participation in, the violence used by rioters that day,” federal prosecutors wrote, Johnston “sent messages to friends and family in the days after January 6th claiming the events at the U.S. Capitol were exaggerated by the media and that it was a ‘setup’ by the police and Antifa.”

Jay Johnston.
Jay Johnston at the Capitol on Jan. 6. 2021.FBI

Johnston’s lawyer, Stanley Woodward, wrote in a sentencing memo that the government has “persistently overstated” Johnston’s role in the attack “because he is an acclaimed Hollywood actor, and the government is using his status to make a point to the public.”

Johnston had “found great success in Hollywood as an actor, writer, and producer including accolades for his role as the voice actor for Jimmy Pesto, Sr. in the animated series Bob’s Burgers and as Officer Taylor in Arrested Development,” wrote Woodward. But Johnston “has not been able to sustain his livelihood as an actor after his involvement at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.”

Johnston has “essentially been blacklisted by Hollywood” and “has worked as a handyman for the last two years – an obvious far cry from his actual expertise and livelihood in film and television,” Woodward wrote.

In messages ahead of the attack, Johnston wrote to an acquaintance to “Bring food and a toilet” to what he referred to as “the gala affair” on Jan. 6, prosecutors said.

Johnston later wrote, in response to a question about whether he was going “to rally,” that he was going “going to rally, really, rally.”

Johnston attended another rally featuring conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and others on the night before the Capitol attack and then filmed himself passing “AREA CLOSED” signs on Jan. 6, prosecutors wrote.

Johnston’s video confirms he heard the sound of flashbangs in the distance and he’s heard noting the police presence at the Capitol before he used an overturned metal bike rack to advance over a stone wall, prosecutors said. He then filmed rioters pushing a metal “Trump” billboard toward the police line, commented to others that the police were macing rioters and then filmed rioters “fighting the police by pushing bike racks against them, trying to break their police line,” prosecutors said.

Once he advanced to the lower west tunnel, prosecutors said, Johnston handled a stolen police shield and then “joined a group push effort, referred to as ‘heave-ho,’ against the police in the tunnel” during which Officer Hodges “was crushed between the frame of one of the doors in the tunnel and the crowd.”

Johnston “joked as rioters attacked the police,” prosecutors wrote, including remarking, “Okay! We’re going to get those light bulbs fixed!” as rioters “pushed an orange ladder at the police in the tunnel.”

More than 1,500 people have been arrested in connection with the Capitol attack, and federal prosecutors have secured the convictions of over 1,100 defendants so far. More than 600 of those convicted have been sentenced to periods of incarceration ranging from a few days behind bars to 22 years in federal prison, for a Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy.

Additional arrests took place last week, including numerous rioters charged with assaulting officers during the attack.

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“Aqui não é notícia quem mata, mas quem salva. Não quem rouba, mas quem é honesto. Não quem agride, mas aquele que faz boas ações. Não noticiamos tragédias, só casos com final feliz. Em vez de preconceito, damos histórias de superação.”

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O Manchester United sofreu apenas um gol na WSL nesta temporada – de longe o melhor registo defensivo da divisão. E o jogo de hoje será o 100º jogo do técnico Marc Skinner no comando do United.

“Sinto que houve muito crescimento nesse período”, disse ele. “Estou muito orgulhoso de representar o Manchester United. Quero ter sucesso aqui por mais 100 jogos e para isso temos que vencer jogos, por isso, embora seja um marco fantástico para mim pessoalmente, estou mais faminto do que nunca.

“Começamos a temporada fantasticamente bem, mas vamos enfrentar uma equipe que pode estar lesionada e realmente quer mostrar isso, ou uma equipe da qual poderíamos tentar tirar vantagem, mas eles vão ser muito difícil de jogar contra.”

Notícias da equipe

Manchester United: Tullis-Joyce; Turner, O Tecelão, Mannion, George; Naaslund, Janssen, Clinton; Toone, Bizet, Terland.

Subs: Middleton-Patel, Riviere, Aujo, Ladd, Miyazawa, Watson, Geyse, Malard, Williams

Arsenal: Van Domselaar; Fox, Williamson, Catley, Mariona; Pouco, McCabe, Maanum; Walt, Ford, Russo.

Subs: Zinsberger, Codina, Reid, Kuhl, Cooney-Cross, Mead, Kafaji, Hurtig, Blackstenius

Preâmbulo

Se o Arsenal surpreendeu algumas pessoas por causa de seu início lento nesta temporada da WSL, então o Manchester United tem sido uma surpresa pelos motivos certos nesta temporada. Portanto, não faltam pontos de discussão enquanto os dois se enfrentam no Leigh Sports Village no início de hoje.

Os visitantes buscam a terceira vitória em três jogos sob o comando da técnica interina, Renée Slegers, que, segundo todos os relatos, trouxe “nova energia” ao Arsenal após a saída de Jonas Eidevall. O United, por sua vez, está invicto, embora tenha disputado apenas quatro partidas contra cinco dos Gunners; eles sem dúvida têm uma das jogadoras mais em forma e emocionantes da liga, a inglesa Grace Clinton, bem como a atacante Elisabeth Terland.



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