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Edward Richmond Jr., 40, of Geismar, Louisiana, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with felony offenses of civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers during January 6th Capitol breech. Provided Photo Edward Richmond Jr.
, 40, of Geismar, Louisiana, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with felony offenses of civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers during January 6th Capitol breech. Provided Photo Edward Richmond Jr., 40, of Baton Rouge, who is inside the yellow circle, pariticipated at 4:27 p.
m. Jan. 6, 2021, in the assault against officers who had fallen and the crowd is attempting to drag out away from the police line.
He is facing felony and misdemeanor charges over the attack aimed at disrupting the electoral vote count for the 2020 presidential election. Photo provided by U.S.
Attorney's Office, District of Columbia Federal prosecutors say this photo shows Edward Richmond Jr., of Geismar (center), participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.
S. Capitol. The photo is part of the criminal case against Richmond.
U.S. Department of Justice Edward Richmond Jr.
, 40, of Geismar, Louisiana, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with felony offenses of civil disorder, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers during January 6th Capitol breech. Provided Photo Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Geismar man who assaulted law enforcement with a baton during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.
S. Capitol was sentenced to more than four years in prison. Edward Richmond Jr.
, 41, pleaded guilty in August to one felony count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon. On Monday, U.S.
District Judge John D. Bates sentenced him to four years and three months in prison, a spokesperson with the U.S.
Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia said. He was also sentenced to 36 months of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution, the spokesperson added. Richmond is one of at least 12 Louisiana residents charged in connection to the riot, according to an Associated Press database .
The attack disrupted the process of certifying President Joe Biden's 2020 election. John McLindon, Richmond’s attorney, said Richmond expressed regret about his actions to the judge and to McLindon since the first day the two met. “Edward is very remorseful for his conduct on that date,” McLindon said.
“He regrets that decision.” According to an August news release by the U.S.
Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, Richmond traveled to Washington, D.C. as part of a “security team” hired to join nine people attending a rally held by former President Donald Trump.
“On Jan. 6, 2021, after attending the rally, some members of the group, including Richmond, made their way to the U.S.
Capitol building,” it said. Richmond traveled to the Lower West Terrace Tunnel, which the release said was “the site of some of the most violent attacks against law enforcement on January 6th.” Federal prosecutors say this photo shows Edward Richmond Jr.
, of Geismar (center), participating in the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S.
Capitol. The photo is part of the criminal case against Richmond. “Richmond carried a police riot shield and police riot helmets taken from officers out of the Tunnel and passed them back to a mob of rioters,” it stated.
“Richmond also helped take furniture from the Capitol out of broken windows and threw a whiteboard into the Tunnel, aimed at police.” A 2023 statement of facts document written by Federal Bureau of Investigations Special Agent Heang Ly stated the bureau identified a man seen in videos assaulting police officers with a baton as Richmond via an anonymous tip. The document added that Richmond was filed wearing a black helmet, body armor and tinted goggles, and police body camera footage documented him striking officers with a baton.
Prosecutors had recommended a sentencing of 5 years and 3 months, according to a Nov. 12 sentencing memorandum written by Assistant U.S.
Attorney Victoria Sheets. Edward Richmond Jr. 40, of Baton Rouge, seen inside the yellow circles, helps carry a wooden plank that is later used to press against a police line trying to hold back the mob outside the U.
S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
He is facing felony and misdemeanor charges over the attack aimed at disrupting the electoral vote count for the 2020 presidential election. “Richmond’s felonious conduct on January 6, 2021 was a violent force in the massive riot that almost succeeded in preventing the certification vote from being carried out, frustrating the peaceful transition of Presidential power, and throwing the United States into a Constitutional crisis,” Sheets wrote. Richmond was previously court-martialed and convicted of manslaughter in 2004 for fatally shooting a handcuffed Iraqi citizen in the head with his rifle, Sheets added.
She stated he was sentenced to three years of military confinement and dishonorably discharged. Richmond’s attorneys, McLindon and David Kindermann, asked for a lighter sentence in a sentencing memorandum filed for Richmond. They argued Richmond didn’t intend to attack the Capitol, as he was personally hired as security for someone else.
And they said he had taken classes while incarcerated and was cooperative when arrested . “Mr. Richmond should be given a downward variant sentence in this case,” they wrote.
“He has demonstrated ‘super’ acceptance of responsibility.”.
