NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — A 37-year-old man was sentenced Monday in Brooklyn Federal Court to 19 months in prison after being convicted of threatening to kill Democratic lawmakers in the days following the Jan. 6 riot.
Brendan Hunt recorded a video on Jan. 8 calling on Americans to "slaughter" their elected representatives.
"We need to go back to the U.S. Capitol when all of the senators and a lot of the representatives are back there, and this time we have to show up with our guns. And we need to slaughter these motherf------," Hunt said in the video titled "KILL YOUR SENATORS."
He was previously acquitted of charges of alleged threats he made in videos against New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Hunt has served 10 months in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, though his lawyers tried to argue he should be released on time-served.
He reportedly became close to his cellmate, R. Kelly, even creating a comic book of the pair.
Prosecutors argued he fostered racist and Neo-Nazi beliefs, showing the jury texts he sent to his father referring to immigrants as "low IQ mongoloids" and calling New York "Jew York City."
The former state employee had argued he "succumbed to anger as it is contagious like a pandemic."
However, Brooklyn Federal Judge Pamela Chen argued his video "crossed the free speech line."
"Mr. Hunt then and, I think, now doesn't fully appreciate that his conduct was wrong," she said. "It feels very much to me that he feels worse for himself and his family than he does for anyone else."
