https://apnews.com/article/owen-shro...fd46b6861c4c1c

WASHINGTON (AP) — Infowars host Owen Shroyer was sentenced on Tuesday to two months behind bars for joining the mob’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, which prosecutors said he “helped create” by spewing violent rhetoric and spreading baseless claims of election fraud to hundreds of thousands of viewers.

Shroyer hosts a daily show called “The War Room With Owen Shroyer” for the website operated by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. Prosecutors said Shroyer used his online platform — and later a megaphone outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — to amplify lies that Democrats stole the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump, who was the Republican incumbent.

Shroyer didn’t enter the Capitol, but he led a march to the building and led rioters in chants near the top of the building’s steps. He’s among only a few people charged in the riot who neither went inside the building nor were accused of engaging in violence or destruction.

He pleaded guilty in June to illegally entering a restricted area — a misdemeanor punishable by a maximum sentence of one year behind bars.

Shroyer didn’t need to set foot inside the Capitol because many of his followers did, prosecutors argued. They said Shroyer spread election disinformation and “thinly veiled calls to violence” on Jan. 6 to Infowars viewers in the weeks leading up to the attack.

“Shroyer helped create January 6,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing.

Prosecutors had sought four months behind bars for Shroyer, 34, of Austin, Texas.

Shroyer told U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly that he wasn’t part of any plan for violence or other illegal activity on Jan. 6. He also said he wasn’t trying to stir up the crowd with his chants.

“It was to get the attention and draw the crowds away,” he said.

Kelly told the Infowars host that there was nothing patriotic about joining a mob that interfered with the peaceful transfer of presidential power from Trump to Joe Biden. Kelly said Shroyer “amped up” the mob on the Capitol steps with his amplified words.

“Context is everything,” the judge said. “I do not believe that you were trying to distract the crowd or turn the crowd away from the Capitol.”

A date for Shroyer to report to prison wasn’t immediately set. His attorney, Norm Pattis, said he planned to appeal the sentence.

Info Wars lol. Lock his ass up.

you want to lock up news reporters?

for reporting

You should know that liberals like that don't want freedom of the press. They only want the "correct narrative" reported.

The party of Nazis strike again! "Were saving democracy by imprisoning everyone who disagrees with us!"

Can't wait for all those violent leftist terrorists that stormed Speaker McCarthy's office to be sent to prison! Right libs???.. right?

LOL at calling infowars news. It’s wasn’t that long ago that even in the r/p both the left and right laughed at them.

Deflection aside, do you agree with imprisonment for this? I'm legitimately curious.

so you do want news reporters locked up?

Info Wars is not "the press". They're scammers who feed nonsense to their consumers. Literally fake news and a danger to this country.

Remember all the Trumpers on here crying about how many threads MoL had on the first page of the R&P? Take a look now. How many threads are made by CTers like chicagopizzaboy, skylinerd1, and LizzieTish?

The CTers on this forum, followed closely by Trumpers, are the majority on this site now.

How wonderful..

Wonder how many alts some of these people have.

Exactly. Trumpers are pretty racist on the whole as it is, imagine needing an alt to say the things you're afraid to say with your main. These people are nuts lol.

Or pulling a Fox “News” and quoting yourself.

Not the issue. Do you think reporters should be thrown in jail?

Itt we learn that liberals want reporters jailed.

So are we going to hold CNN and MSNBC accountable for inciting BLM riots burning down cities?

Very true , I’m more than sure a majority of these alts on here on from the regular trumpkins that post. Just like the Neo-Nazis tho they have to hide their face or account because they are so brave and “free thinkers” the cowards have to hide their identity. LoL at these simps.

Making chit up and whipping people into a frenzy to attack the Capitol is not reporting nor makes one a reporter.

Exactly. These inglorious basterds should all have Ts carved into their foreheads.

Free speech is not whipping people into a frenzy. It hilarious how you now simp for this nonsense. Pathetic

What he did is not free speech. Period.

LOCK

HIM

UP!

How is it not free speech?

The way i view it, the law is not fair. If you are a person that goes agains the government, do not expect a fair trial in a Democrat run city.

what did he specifically say that was not free speech?

Such a traumatized snowflake…

Thr biggest peddler of misinformation is the US govt. When are we going to lock them up

keep licking them boots, ****

He’s not getting 2 months for being a reporter.