'We brought this on ourselves:' Husband and wife duo who smoked joint inside the Capitol on January 6 are sentenced to 60 days in jail

• The husband and wife were sentenced to 60 days in prison this week for their part in the January riot.

• John Getsinger Jr. and Stacie Ann Hargis-Getsinger smoked marijuana in the Capitol.

• The two apologized in court on Tuesday.

The husband and wife who smoked a joint in the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, were sentenced to 60 days in prison this week.

John Getsinger Jr. and Stacie Ann Hargis-Getsinger were found guilty of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

They were initially charged with disorderly conduct and violent entry. Federal prosecutors have offered some rioters lesser charges in exchange for their guilty pleas, as they work to prosecute the more than 870 people arrested in connection with the attack.

The Getsingers can serve their 60-day sentences in sequential order to not disrupt their home life according to the judge. Hargis-Getsinger will begin her sentence in February.

Attorneys for the couple did not reply immediately.

According to court documents, four different people called the FBI to report that Getsinger and Hargis-Getsinger were at the Capitol that day. A person said that they had seen a video of a couple entering the building. We're storming the capitol.

The husband and wife were caught on camera smoking a joint inside the building and prosecutors said they spent 40 minutes inside.

The couple took a bus to Washington, DC, to protest the results of the presidential election. Prior to the siege, social media posts by Hargis-Getsinger indicated that she was a Trump supporter. The couple used a public Facebook page to organize a bus trip from South Carolina to the nation's capitol.

Prosecutors said that months after the insurrection, Hargis-Getsinger continued to spread lies about the election on social media and expressed no remorse for her involvement in the riot.

The husband and wife apologized in court on Tuesday, telling the judge that they regretted their actions and had faced consequences.

Getsinger said that they brought this on themselves. I apologized to all the police officers who felt threatened that day.

Getsinger took credit for the couple's decision to go to DC when he asked the judge not to jail his wife. The judge sentenced the husband and wife to 60 days in prison because they believed they had a right to storm the Capitol.

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