WASHINGTON - On Wednesday, a federal judge sentenced a New Jersey stadium owner to nearly 3.5 years in prison for assaulting a Washington DC police officer on the head during the Capitol riots.

Scott Fairlamb pleaded guilty in September to one count of obstructing official procedures and assaulting, resisting or obstructing the police. The footage taken outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6 shows Fairlam inciting other mobs and chatting up with the police-once shouting: "You are American!?"-in an attack on an attempt to strengthen others in the building Before the man's police officer.

In other videos, Fellam can be seen climbing onto the scaffolding at the inauguration and shouting: "What are the Patriots doing? We [expletive] disarm them, and then we rush into the [expletive] Capitol!"

Fairlam faces a recommended sentence range of 41 to 51 months in prison, and the Justice Department argued in a memo that he should serve the upper limit of his sentence. On Wednesday, at the sentencing hearing of U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth, prosecutors stated that the boxing coach and former mixed martial arts fighter Fairlamb knew he might be able to fight the police. What kind of harm will it cause. They also stated that the allegations of assaults he faced before indicated that the January 6th attack was not an isolated incident, calling it "one of a series of attacks."

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Fairlamb's lawyer Harley Breite made the opposite point. He said that Fairlam, the son of a former New Jersey police officer and the brother of a Secret Service officer, "rewed" law enforcement and that the attack was "absolutely abnormal." He also argued that most of the 11 months of Fairlam’s detention were spent in the correctional facility in Washington on January 6, which was “extraordinarily severe”.

In his sentencing memo, Brett compared Ferlam’s time in prison to "a day in Ivan Denisovich’s life", a novel by the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, describing The conditions of the labor camps in the Soviet era. Breite said Fairlamb had been threatened by DC Correctional Department guards several times because he participated in a night ceremony where the defendants sang the Stars and Stripes together on January 6.

As Lambers himself despised two senior corrections officials for failing to hand over the medical records of another congressional riot defendant in time, the conditions of the Washington, DC prison have been subject to increasing scrutiny. The U.S. Marshal Service subsequently conducted a surprise inspection and found that the central detention facility was in poor conditions. Most of the defendants facing charges in DC were held there. The marshals announced that they would remove approximately 400 federal prisoners from the facility. The inspection did not find that the conditions in the correctional facility where the defendant was held on January 6 were equally bad.

The US Department of Justice stated that Fairlam's remarks on January 6 indicated that he was prepared for violence. He posted: "To what extent are you willing to protect our Constitution? Either shut up or shut up." He climbed onto the scaffolding, incited the thugs, and said, "We disarmed them and rushed into the damned Capitol! ”Pic.twitter.com/Rk6J9wBU0U

Ferram also spoke at the hearing, telling Lambeth that he wanted to apologize to his family because his "irresponsible and reckless behavior" damaged the name they had established throughout their lives. He also said that the person seen in the January 6 video was not himself.

"I want you to know, Your Honor: This is not Scott Fairlamb. This is not me. This is not the person I will be when I grow up," he said. "I have nothing but regret.

Lambeth told Fairlam that he was lucky to not hurt the police officer when he attacked him, and said that accepting his request might be a good decision.

"If you go to trial, I don't think any jury can or could have acquitted you," he said.

Although Fairlam’s lawyer argued that he was sentenced to an 11-month prison term — actually serving time — Lambers said he could not “conscientiously” give him less than the recommended guideline term. He ordered Fairlam to be imprisoned for 41 months and then released for 36 months under supervision. Fairlamb must also pay $2,000 for damage to the Capitol. Lambers did not impose a fine, but the Justice Department has asked him to offset the $30,000 that Fairlamb has raised online since his arrest.

Lambeth did say that he would order the "rapid removal" of Ferram from the DC prison. Breite requested permission to serve his sentence in a federal facility near his residence in New Jersey.

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