‘You’re not the victim’: Judge slams Jan. 6 rioter at sentencing

A federal judge on Friday slammed a convicted Jan. 6 rioter who reportedly threw a tantrum during her sentencing, Politico’s Kyle Cheney reports.

District Judge Amit P. Mehta sentenced Audrey Southard-Rumsey to six years in connection with attack on the Capitol.

Southard-Rumsey, 54 of Spring Hill, Florida, was found guilty earlier this year of three counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, three counts of civil disorder, and one count of obstruction of an official proceeding (all felonies), according to the Department of Justice.

Cheney tweeted that “Judge Mehta just tore into Jan. 6 defendant, who repeatedly assaulted and resisted police — and screamed vulgarities at them outside the House chamber even as members were still hiding inside.”

“She expressed no remorse today.”

Mehta has presided over cases involving other Jan. 6 defendants and has handed out the longest sentences in connection with the insurrection.

He sentenced Stewart Rhodes to 18 years and Peter Schwartz to 14.

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“You’re not the victim,” he said to Southard-Rumsey. “Those police officers, they get to wear the label of patriot. Not you."

The judge expressed a broad criticism of those involved in the insurrection, who he said “cloak themselves” in patriotism, Cheney reports.

“There’s nothing patriotic about what you did,” Mehta said.

“You hurt people. You scared people. You terrorized members of Congress. You were a one-person wrecking ball.”

Mehta in excoriating Southard-Rumsey said her actions don’t reflect America’s values.

“Apparently my history classes were different from yours,” Mehta said. “The country fought a revolution to establish democracy, not tear it down.”