Richard ‘Bigo’ Barnett found guilty on all eight charges stemming from US Capitol attack
Barnini Chakraborty
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Richard “Bigo” Barnett, the man whose picture went viral after he put his foot on a desk in former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) office during the Capitol attack, has been found guilty on all eight federal charges against him.
It took the jury about two hours to come back with their guilty verdicts. The judge denied the prosecutor’s request to have him remanded until his May 3 sentencing.
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Following the guilty verdict, Barnett’s attorney, Joe McBride, told reporters that his client didn’t get a fair trial in part because “Washington, D.C., is not a state” and because Barnett was “not surrounded by a jury of his peers, a jury of people from Arkansas, a place where he came from.” McBride suggested that had Barnett been tried in Arkansas, the outcome may have been different.
Barnett, who was dressed in a gray suit, told the jury on Thursday that he regretted his actions and would apologize to Pelosi in person if he could.
“I shouldn’t have put my feet on the desk,” he said, adding that he thought it was “funny” at the time but that it now seems “crass.”
Barnett also said he regretted going to the “Stop the Steal” rally.
“It was not what I expected or worth two years of lost life for me and my family,” he said.
Barnett faced eight charges, including taking a stun gun into the Capitol, theft of government property, and obstructing Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote count. He initially had seven charges against him, but on Dec. 21, prosecutors added the eighth charge of civil disorder.
Barnett’s lawyer accused prosecutors of vindictively going after his client and sarcastically told jurors that the trial is “the most famous trespassing case of all time.”
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“This case is about a picture taken by a journalist who was perusing the Capitol looking for the perfect shot, and, boy, did he ever get it,” McBride said.