Black Trump supporter also gets longest sentence thus far in Jan. 6 criminal investigation
Style Magazine Newswire | 7/27/2022, 3:21 p.m.
In this image from a Washington Metropolitan Police officer’s body-worn video camera and contained in the statement of facts supporting an arrest warrant for Mark Ponder, Ponder strikes an officer with a pole on the west front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Ponder was sentenced to more than five years in prison Tuesday. (Photo: Department of Justice via AP)
The Grio is reporting that a Black man who was one of only four residents of the District of Columbia arrested for taking part in the Jan. 6 insurrection has received one of the longest sentences thus far for his role.
The federal government sought a 60-month prison term for Mark Ponder in court on Tuesday, which he got, and Judge Tanya Chutkan added three more months, equaling over five years in prison. His punishment is tied for the longest with the December sentence of Robert Scott Palmer, a Florida man who struck Capitol Police officers with a fire extinguisher, according to NBC News.
