An Arkansas man who used the pole of an American flag to batter a fallen police officer during the US Capitol attack has received a 52-month jail term.
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Peter Francis Stager helped drag the officer down the steps of the Capitol, then "forcibly and repeatedly" struck him, say prosecutors.
He was also captured on video saying that "death is the only remedy" for the lawmakers inside the building.
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Stager, a 44-year-old truck driver from Conway, Arkansas, pleaded guilty in February to a felony charge of assaulting police with a dangerous weapon.
He was identified six days after the attack by an informant, who told the FBI he recognised Stager from videos posted on Twitter.
One video shows Stager climbing the steps of the Capitol holding a flagpole affixed with the American flag.
The officer he attacked had been guarding an entrance into the building when he was "pulled - face down and head first - down a set of steps and into the violent mob," prosecutors with the Justice Department said.
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Stager and others "forced [the officer] into a prone position on the stairs and proceeded to forcibly and repeatedly strike [him] in the head and body with various objects," they added.
A second video shows Stager saying: "Everybody in there is a treasonous traitor. Death is the only remedy for what's in that building," in apparent reference to members of Congress and law enforcement.
A confidential source told the FBI that Stager had claimed he did not know the man was a police officer and thought he was striking a member of the far-left Antifa movement.
source: bbc
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