QAnon Shaman is now a free man: report
An Arizona man who became the face of the Jan. 6 insurrection is now a free man.
Jacob Chansley, the 35-year-old man known as a “QAnon Shaman,” was released from a Phoenix halfway house Thursday, Law & Crime reports, citing the Bureau of Prisons.
Senior U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth described Chansley as the “very image of the riot” in November 2021 before sentencing him to 41 months as part of a plea deal for obstructing an official proceeding.
“Chansley worked diligently during his period of confinement to take advantage of the opportunities accorded by his plea deal to reduce the time he was required to serve,” Chansley’s attorney Albert Watkins said in a statement.
“The Court and Bureau of Prisons recognized this effort. I sincerely wish Jake the absolute best as he moves forward with his life.”
Although Chansley claimed to have peaceful intentions, he shouted “time’s up (expletives)” as he entered the Senate chamber.
Months before the insurrection, Chansley posted incendiary rhetoric on social media, according to the report
“We shall have no real hope to survive the enemies arrayed against us until we hang the traitors lurking among us,” he wrote in a Nov. 19, 2020 Facebook post.
Chansley in an NBC News interview after the attack on the Capitol called the insurrection a “win.”
“The fact that we had a bunch of our traitors in office hunker down, put on their gas masks and retreat into their underground bunker, I consider that a win,” Chansley said.