'F-- with me': Jan. 6 rioter who broke Capitol window with pole remains defiant as judge sentences her to prison [View all]
Source: Law & Crime
Dec 12th, 2024, 3:44 pm
An Oklahoma woman caught on camera cracking a window near a door marked “House of Representatives” at the U.S. Capitol building with a metal-tipped long wooden pole during the Jan. 6, 2021 riots turned in to the feds by her friends and who later threatened law enforcement, witnesses and even her husband for talking to the FBI is going to prison.
Dova Alina Winegeart, 51, was sentenced Monday to four months in prison followed by a year on supervised release and fined $1,000, court records show. Winegeart was found guilty in July of attempted destruction of government property after a one-day bench trial before Judge Carl J. Nichols, a Donald Trump appointee. She was found not guilty of three other counts, including trespassing, disorderly conduct and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building.
Prosecutors said like many other Jan. 6 defendants, Winegeart went to the Capitol that day believing Trump’s lies about a stolen 2020 election. She attended Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally, then posted on TikTok a montage with an overlay saying, “Hold on, Sir, We The People are on our way,” showing her wearing a Proud Boys shirt on the way to the Capitol. On Capitol grounds, she looked through the window near the East Front House Chamber Doors and aggressively banged on the windowpane with her fists. At one point, Winegeart raised her middle finger and yelled, “F— YOU!” at officers inside.
She then grabbed a wooden pole with metal eyebolts at the top and middle, turned to the crowd behind her, held up the wooden pole, and addressed the crowd. It’s not clear what she said, as the surveillance footage does not record audio. But afterward, she faced the door and swung the wooden pole at the window pane. As she struck the door, shards of material littered the ground. A second strike against the window broke the pole.
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