Devlyn Thompson

Devlyn Thompson, of Washington state, picked up a metal baton from the floor of the Lower West Terrace tunnel of the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot and swung it overhead and downward against the police line in an apparent attempt to knock a can of pepper spray from an officer's hand, striking a Metropolitan Police sergeant; he became one of the first two Jan. 6 defendants to plead guilty to assaulting an officer and one of only a handful to plead guilty to a felony at that early stage of the prosecutions. He pleaded guilty on 8/6/2021 to one felony charge, assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon. He was sentenced on 12/20/2021 to 46 months of incarceration.