An Arkansas man who propped his feet on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in a widely circulated photo from the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced Wednesday to more than four years in prison.
Richard (Bigo) Barnett became one of the faces of the Jan. 6 riot by supporters of then-president Donald Trump, and U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper said in announcing that sentence that Barnett seemed to enjoy the notoriety at times.
“All the folks who follow ‘Bigo’ need to know the actions of Jan. 6 cannot be repeated without some serious repercussions,” Cooper said, alluding to the media attention and