Southern Indiana woman sentenced to 14 days in jail for role in US Capitol riot

WASHINGTON (WISH) — A U.S. territory tribunal justice connected Tuesday sentenced a confederate Indiana pistillate to 14 days successful jailhouse for her engagement successful the January 6 riot astatine the U.S. Capitol.

Dona Sue Bissey, 53, besides sentenced to 60 hours of assemblage work by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. The justice stressed that her condemnation was due to the fact that Bissey had celebrated and bragged astir her information successful what amounted to an attempted overthrow of the government.

“The information that she subscribes to bizarre conspiracy theories, that’s her right. That’s thing she is allowed to bash arsenic an American,” Chutkan said.

Bissey had antecedently pleaded blameworthy to a complaint of parading, demonstrating oregon picketing successful a Capitol building.

The national authoritative connected Tuesday cited Bissey’s online enactment for QAnon and different conspiracy theories. But, the prosecutors besides person said Bissey’s was a “rare case” successful which they agreed to urge probation alternatively of location detention oregon prison, based connected her aboriginal acceptance of work and practice with instrumentality enforcement.

Bissey and Anna Morgan-Lloyd traveled to the District of Columbia unneurotic from the Bloomfield, Indiana, area.

Morgan-Lloyd was antecedently sentenced to probation and assemblage service.