Defiant MAGA rioter 'nearly topples' table during violent court outburst: report
A convicted MAGA rioter is heading to jail ahead of his sentencing — but not before he engaged in a violent outburst during a court hearing on Monday.
As reported by CBS News' Scott MacFarlane, 34-year-old MAGA rioter Vitali GossJankowski was in court after prosecutors argued that he should be jailed ahead of his sentencing due to threatening messages he sent to law enforcement officials.
During their presentation, prosecutors showed how GossJankowski publicly revealed the identities and emails of federal agents on his Instagram account and accused them of being "Jewish and ultra-parasitic leftists."
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GossJankowski's lawyers tried to argue that the messages, which were eventually taken down, were just a "release of steam" that reflected his "strong beef with how he was treated" by law enforcement officials.
United States District Judge Paul Friedman, however, was not buying this explanation and ordered GossJankowski jailed immediately — at which point, writes MacFarlane, GossJankowski began to violently lash out.
"Table is nearly toppled," MacFarlane writes, describing the scene in the court. "He makes gutteral screams and fights off agents... A computer plunges off defense table in the scrum. Other agents from elsewhere in courthouse run into Judge Friedman’s courtroom to corral GossJankowski, who is huge and strong."
GossJankowski was eventually contained, however, and was sent directly to a prison in Washington D.C.
According to WUSA9, GossJankowski earlier this year was convicted of "obstructing the joint session of Congress, civil disorder and assaulting a police officer."