Capitol rioter who said he 'genuinely believed' there was a secret state plot to kill off the human population was sentenced to 3 years probation

A Tennessee man was sentenced to three years of supervised release and 60 days of house arrest for his role in the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol.

Bruce Wayne Ivey pleaded guilty to one count of parading, demonstrating, or picketing in the US capitol. He was charged with disorderly and disruptive conduct in a Capitol building and entering and remaining in a Capitol building. As the government works to prosecute the 800 people arrested in connection to the attack, federal prosecutors have offered several rioters the lesser charge in exchange for their guilty pleas.

US District Judge Christopher Cooper sentenced Ivey to serve 60 days of home confinement, as well as $500 in restitution. WUSA was the first to report on the results of the sentencing hearing, which ordered Ivey to agree to regular drug testing and mental health treatment.

Cooper declined to issue a split sentence after prosecutors requested that Ivey spend 14 days in jail. According to WUSA, the federal government argued that he should be credited for being one of the first Capitol riot defendants to plead guilty and for seeking mental health treatment after the siege.

Prosecutors say that on January 6th, the Capitol's security cameras captured Ivey standing next to Dominic Pezzola, who was caught on camera using a stolen police riot shield to smash a window. According to charging documents, Ivey climbed through the broken window into the building. The 14th rioter to enter the Capitol was Ivey.

According to court records, an anonymous person tipped off the FBI to the fact that Ivey was at the riot a couple of weeks after the attack.

According to WUSA, an attorney for Ivey told the judge that his client was prone to conspiratorial thinking. He told the courtroom directly that he was genuine in his belief that there was a global secret state that was planning to kill off the majority of the human population.

After participating in the attack, he sought mental health treatment and had to spend months recovering from being crushed in a door frame by the mob during the riot.

I can assure you that the court will never be involved in something like this again, according to WUSA.

An attorney for Ivey did not respond immediately.