The person who threatened Nancy Pelosi was sentenced this week.
The woman in the video said she wanted to shoot Pelosi.
Bancroft was sentenced to two months in prison for her part in the siege.
The woman who said she wanted to shoot Pelosi in the head was sentenced to two months in prison.
Dawn was charged with parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
She was originally charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building. 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.
According to court documents, the FBI received a tip that included a video that was filmed by Bancroft during the attack, which led to his arrest. The "selfie" video shows the two of them trying to get out of the Capitol building. The video showed a group of people at an exit.
According to court documents, Bancroft can be heard saying in the video that they broke into the capitol.
She said they were looking for Nancy to shoot her but they didn't find her.
They believed that she was referring to Pelosi.
Bancroft told an FBI agent that she and Santos- Smith entered the Capitol through a broken window. According to court documents, she admitted that she entered a restricted area when she climbed through the window. When she sent the video to her children, she deleted it. Prosecutors said that she instructed her children to destroy the video.
The two men were arrested in Pennsylvania.
In a court filing, a defense attorney argued that her client didn't mean to threaten Pelosi's life. According to CNN, Judge Sullivan told Bancroft that he was particularly disturbed by the comments and had initially considered a longer sentence.
The lawyer did not reply to the request.
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