4.5 years’ jail for Capitol rioter who put feet on Pelosi’s desk

AN Arkansas man photographed with his feet on a desk in House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office after joining the mob that stormed the US Capitol in 2021 was sentenced yesterday to four and a half years in prison.

Richard Barnett, 63, was leaning back in a chair with his boots propped up on a desk in the office of the Democratic politician when he had his picture taken by an AFP photographer.