Self-styled ‘QAnon shaman’ is sentenced to 41 months in Capitol riot

Jacob Chansley, the self-styled “QAnon shaman,” confronts U.S. Capitol Police officers during the January 6 insurrection.

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Updated November 17, 2021 at 2:20 PM ET

Jacob Chansley, the self-styled “QAnon shaman” who became one of the faces of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol after storming the building in a fur headdress with horns, has been sentenced to nearly three and a half years in prison for his role in the riot.

Photographs of a bare-chested Chansley, carrying a bullhorn and a spear adorned with the American flag while howling in halls of the Capitol, became some of the iconic images of that violent, chaotic day.

At a hearing Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Judge Royce Lamberth sentenced Chansley to 41 months in prison, although he will be given credit for the roughly 10 months he’s already served.