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A St Louis Cardinals super fan known as the Rally Runner pleaded guilty on Friday to attacking the US Capitol while wearing red face paint and red clothing, fueling a baseless conspiracy theory that government plants inspired the January 6 attack. 2021 confidentially.
WASHINGTON: A St Louis Cardinals super fan known as the Rally Runner pleaded guilty on Friday to attacking the US Capitol while wearing red face paint and red clothing, fueling a baseless conspiracy theory that government plants inspired the January 6 attack , 2021 confidentially.
The 44-year-old Missouri man, who legally changed his name from Daniel Donnelly Jr to Rally Runner in 2017, used a stolen shield to help other terrorists attack police officers at the Capitol.
Rally Runner was wearing red face paint, a red jacket and a red “Keep America Great” hat when he stormed the Capitol. He is known in St. Louis for running around the Cardinals stadium during baseball games wearing red clothes and red face paint.
Rally Runner pleaded guilty to civil disorder, a felony punishable by a maximum prison sentence of five years. US District Judge Jia Cobb is expected to sentence him on July 30.
Tucker Carlson featured it on a December 2021 segment of his now-cancelled Fox News show. Carlson showed an image of a Rally Runner outside the Capitol as he promoted conspiracy theories that uncharged “agent provocateurs” had infiltrated the crowd, HuffPost reported.
“Who is this person? Why hasn’t he been charged? That’s a very simple question,” Carlson told his viewers.
The FBI arrested Rally Runner in St. Louis in August 2023. Investigators questioned him at his home in St. Louis less than a week after the riot. He told them he was at the Capitol on January 6 and took one of the police shields that rioters were passing around the crowd, the FBI said.
Video captured Rally Runner in the crowd of rioters who attacked the police in a tunnel on the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol. He and other terrorists used shields to form a wall as they clashed with police, the FBI said.
Rally Runner was still wearing face paint and his Trump hat when he talked about his involvement in the Capitol attack in a Facebook video posted on January 6, 2021.
“We pushed them all the way into the doors. He was working until more police showed up. I’m right in front and going through those doors to the Capitol, and that’s when reinforcements came,” he said on the video.
The estimated sentencing guidelines for the Rally Runner case recommend a prison term ranging from two years to two years and six months. The judge is not bound by those guidelines.
More than 1,300 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Almost 800 of them have pleaded guilty. Around 200 other people have been convicted after trials decided by a judge or jury. More than 800 have been sentenced, with around two-thirds receiving prison terms ranging from a few days to 22 years.
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