
A man of the Bucks Ferry, who was the first person who pierced the metal barricade before the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, admits that his actions effectively began historical riots, which left fragments of wounded policemen and threatened the placid transfer of the transfer of the presidential force.
But Ryan Samsel, who was one of around 1,500 accused who received pardon from President Donald Trump – the intended beneficiary of the Capitol attack – he also said that in the last four years he has become something like a sacrificial goat: filled by the prosecutor’s prosecutor in the village in public discourse and It is subject to indigent treatment behind bars.
Just a few days before admitting to pardoning, prosecutors said that they were planning to ask a judge to convict Samsel up to 20 years in prison, which would be one of the longest for each accused of January 6. Now he is free.
“I’m not saying I’m wrong. I am not saying that I was completely innocent – said Samsel in an interview. But he added: “I do not think that my action would justify 20 years. People kill people and are 20 years venerable. “
The 41-year-old’s comments appeared when the rainfall from the pardon of Trump for convicts still resounds throughout the country. In weeks, since Trump effectively destroyed all criminal consequences for people accused of participating in the attack, the Republican President met with criticism From almost all sides political spectrum, especially in the matter of his decision KOC Publishing House Both protesters without violence and accused of assaulting the police.
Other residents of Philadelphia took advantage of this West Rehl, from Port Richmond and former head of Philadelphia Proud Boys, who were convicted of a tempting conspiracy for being one of the leading provocateurs of the attack. Trump commuted a 15-year rehl sentence, releasing him from prison. From then on, Rehl said that he hopes that he would update to pardon, a more expansive form of relief, which Trump issued almost every accused person or convicted of any crime resulting from the fight with January 6.
Over 1,200 people They were convicted of crimes for their activities that day. Some were accused of entering, while others were chased for assaulting law enforcement officers. Officials of the Department of Justice said that the probe was the largest single investigation in its history. But Trump has long accused prosecutors of abuse of their power and attacking political opponents, calling the accused “hostages”, trying to disregard the gravity of what happened during the attack.
Samsel from Bristol was a key part of the start of the riots.
Prosecutors said that he and four other men – who did not know each other – overthrew metal barricades outside the Capitol, when the crowd began to swell behind them. Their pushing broke the building’s safety circuit and caused that Capitol Capitol’s policeman fell, hit her on a metal handrail and lost consciousness.
During the Samsel trial in Washington, prosecutors said that he and his code “cleaned the way … for hours of terror, violence, destruction and injuries that occurred.” He was convicted last year for allegations, including civic disorders and assault to a police officer, and was to be sentenced next month.
Samsel in an interview said that it was true that he was a person who for the first time violated the circuit of the capitol and that his pushing barricade caused the fall of Edwards. But he said he didn’t work alone. He said he didn’t want to knock Edwards and tried to help her legs after she fell to the ground. And he said that he never entered the Capitol when they poured the riots into the building.
In fact, he said, he went to the Capitol because he thought Trump could speak there. While Samsel sometimes did not deny his action aggressively, he said that he never intentionally hit an officer, and added: “When I started to see people fighting clays … I said,” Time for us to go. “
He finished in federal detention shortly after the attack and switched between prisons for years when he was waiting for the trial. He complained regularly Being assaults by the guards and not receiving adequate treatment. Prosecutors in court documents often accused him of lying or producing materials to support his claims, which he denied in an interview.
In any case, said Samsel, he was exposed to what he described as “terrifying” conditions, while imprisoned, including the need to spend a long time in a lonely closing or in cells without toilets. He also said that he communicated with Rehl through toilet tubes, while both were imprisoned in the same prison and – in a claim that could not be verified independently – he said that he saw the notable accused, including Sean “Diddy” Combs and Luigi Mangione when he was recently falling in a federal prison in Brooklyn.
Now Samsel – a hairdresser who worked in the city center – said that he hopes to spend at least some time to work on prison reform. He said that he contacted selected officials on both sides to merge in this matter, including US senator John Fetterman, Democrat Pennsylvania; US representative Brian Fitzpatrick, Republican of Bucks; and the District Prosecutor in Philadelphia, Larry Krasner, Democrat and a recurrent critic of Trump.
As for his past, Samsel said he had “deep remorse” for crimes he committed in the years before January 6, 2021, including assaulting women. In one of these incidents in 2010 he pushed his pregnant girl to the channel.
Federal prosecutors stated in recent court documents that he remained the subject of an busy order for 2019 in New Jersey; Samsel said he had to agree to the payment plan to resolve this case this month and secure his release from the federal prison.
Thinking about what happened in the Capitol, Samsel said he did not regret, believing that the fall from that day helped him put a recent path.
“I wouldn’t do it [say I] Regret it because I think that good can come out of it, “he said – and if I have to sacrifice my own freedom, I will do it.”