{"id":255033,"date":"2022-07-26T19:24:50","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T19:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/capitol-rioter-jailed-for-joint-longest-sentence-of-five-years-for-attacking-multiple-police-officers"},"modified":"2022-07-26T19:24:50","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T19:24:50","slug":"capitol-rioter-jailed-for-joint-longest-sentence-of-five-years-for-attacking-multiple-police-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/capitol-rioter-jailed-for-joint-longest-sentence-of-five-years-for-attacking-multiple-police-officers","title":{"rendered":"Capitol rioter jailed for joint longest sentence of five years for attacking multiple police officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington, DC man has been sentenced to 63 months in prison after he attacked several police officers with a weapon during the Capitol riot on January 6. Mark Ponder, 56, from northwest DC, is one of only a few DC residents to have been charged in the Capitol riot. He now faces more than five years behind bars. He was arrested on the day of the insurrection but he was released because the authorities were too overwhelmed to process him, WUSA9 reported. In April, he pleaded guilty to felony assault. The 63-month sentence is a tie for the longest punishment in relation to the Capitol riot. Robert Scott Palmer was ordered to serve the same amount of time. Judge Tanya Chutkan said she handed down the tough sentence because she was &#8220;appalled&#8221; by Ponder&#8217;s behaviour and that she was moved by Sgt Aquilino Gonell&#8217;s victim impact statement. His injuries led to his retirement from the US Capitol Police force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Washington, DC man has been sentenced to 63 months in prison after he attacked several police officers with a weapon during the Capitol riot on January 6. Mark Ponder,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-255033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}