Capitol Offense: Nicholas Languerand's Quest for 'Belonging' Led Him to QAnon, the Insurrection

[TexasTowelie]

Capitol Offense: Nicholas Languerand's Quest for 'Belonging' Led Him to QAnon, the Insurrection — and Now Prison


Finally, Nicholas Languerand was in the thick of it.

He had gone to Washington, D.C., to watch president Donald Trump stand on a podium near the White House and insist that the election was a fraud. He had followed as thousands marched to the U.S. Capitol and through security barriers. He’d looked on, for hours, as the mob transformed a ceremonial tunnel on the lower west terrace into a battlefield that D.C. Police officers would come to remember as the “tunnel of death.”

Now Languerand was on the front line, staring down a row of exhausted officers behind riot shields who were absorbing blows from baseball bats, too outnumbered to fight back but unwilling to cede their ground. It was a minute after 5 p.m. on January 6, 2021. A shirtless “QAnon Shaman” wearing horns and pelts had already walked onto the Senate floor. Elected officials were being evacuated. Even the person Languerand called “Mr. President” had, at 4:17 p.m., put out a video message instructing his “very special” foot soldiers to go home.

Languerand picked up whatever weapons he could find. Sticks, shards of broken Capitol furniture, an audio speaker that someone else had ripped from its mount. The former Army private and amateur boxer hoisted a heavy traffic bollard that had been circulating through the crowd like a beach ball at a Jimmy Buffett concert and hurled it at the police.

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It didn’t take long for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to identify him. By April, he was arrested on felony charges. He eventually pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer with a deadly weapon, and last week, a federal judge sentenced him to 44 months in prison. His sentence was the third-longest yet for a January 6 rioter.

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[Budi]

1. This is quite a replay by Sevendaysvt.

Finally, Nicholas Languerand got what he came for.
44 months.
Should have been 10 years, in my opinion

[2naSalit]

5. +1

[3Hotdogs]

6. Do J should not have offered a plea deal.

[badhair77]

2. Long article but worth reading to the end.

Although he states regret his continued participation in online sites proves he still has the same beliefs. And why is Tucker Carlson and Fox being blasted to these prisoners.

[UpInArms]

3. Fucker Carlson should be charged for incitement

Updates about his case have showed up on an account with a variation of Languerand’s old handle that appears to be run by someone in contact with him. The latest post came just three days before his sentencing with a message attributed to Languerand claiming that he had received an “absolutely massive” stack of letters from people supportive of his cause. He said he is currently working on a book and a news show, and he encouraged people to look out for this story in Seven Days. The post, alongside others of QAnon and anti-vax memes, includes various right-wing hashtags, such as “#trumpwon,” “#sleepyjoe” and “#fuckbiden2020.”

“I have a long and difficult road ahead of me,” he wrote, “but I will not let it stop me from doing all I can to advocate for the truth.”

On the anniversary of January 6, Languerand said in an email to Seven Days, he and “the guys” at jail watched cable news together. They flipped between Fox News and CNN, noting the stark differences in the way hosts on each station talked about the riot. Languerand said he saw in Carlson an important advocate for him and other patriots, and he encouraged others to watch his show, as well.

“This country has tens of millions of people who think like I do and believe like I do,” he wrote, “and those people take this stuff very seriously.” Updates about his case have showed up on an account with a variation of Languerand’s old handle that appears to be run by someone in contact with him. The latest post came just three days before his sentencing with a message attributed to Languerand claiming that he had received an “absolutely massive” stack of letters from people supportive of his cause. He said he is currently working on a book and a news show, and he encouraged people to look out for this story in Seven Days. The post, alongside others of QAnon and anti-vax memes, includes various right-wing hashtags, such as “#trumpwon,” “#sleepyjoe” and “#fuckbiden2020.”

“I have a long and difficult road ahead of me,” he wrote, “but I will not let it stop me from doing all I can to advocate for the truth.”

On the anniversary of January 6, Languerand said in an email to Seven Days, he and “the guys” at jail watched cable news together. They flipped between Fox News and CNN, noting the stark differences in the way hosts on each station talked about the riot. Languerand said he saw in Carlson an important advocate for him and other patriots, and he encouraged others to watch his show, as well.

“This country has tens of millions of people who think like I do and believe like I do,” he wrote, “and those people take this stuff very seriously.”

[bottomofthehill]

4. He found where he "belongs" in jail. Fuck him, enjoy your time behind bars you fuck

Not long enough. How does a drug addict with a violent past who was discharged from the Army have the ability to buy, own or possess firearms. He is a danger to society and should be behind bars for a long time. He is the definition of domestic terrorist. Fuck him, may his time in prison be long and hard.