NEW: Feds seek nine year prison term for sovereign citizen Jan. 6 defendant Taylor Johnatakis:
A federal judge called Taylor Johnatakis' sovereign citizen arguments nonsense, and said he "could get a lesser sentence" if he "weren’t so hardheaded."
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"Johnatakis coordinated a violent assault on a line of police officers... He used a metal barricade to attack officers head on and grabbed one officer to prevent him from defending himself against other attacking rioters..."
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"Johnatakis was among the first rioters to march up the Southwest stairs to confront them..."
"Using his megaphone, Johnatakis organized his fellow rioters, waving them toward the police line and instructing them to 'PACK IT IN – PACK IT IN!'... He began arranging and preparing the mob to assault the officers."
"Still using the megaphone, Johnatakis instructed the rioters: 'ONE FOOT, ONE FOOT' and 'PUSH THEM OUT OF HERE, WE’RE JUST USING OUR BODIES!'"
“I thought they were going to come through. I thought we were going to be trampled. I thought we were going to be hurt. I thought we were going to die.”
"I thought I had broken my leg because the racks were being pushed against us.”
"we probably would have murdered a few of them had we seen exactly who they were"
"I was on the front line. I was on the gate. I organized a push up to the Capitol because I felt like that is exactly what we needed."
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