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  Jan. 6 defendant who claimed he was a journalist gets convicted

  Posted by Gatherer  on September 18, 2023 at 9:29 PM

  A North Carolina man who claimed he was on duty as an independent journalist while storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was convicted of four misdemeanor counts including disorderly conduct in the Capitol, The Washington Post reported.

  Stephen Horn, now 25 years old, scaled a statue inside the Capitol building and stormed then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the insurrection. Though Horn was not assigned by any media outlet to cover the rally on Jan. 6, Horn’s attorneys argued that his intent to dispense recordings he took during the Capitol riot classified him as a journalist.

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