Hostetter planned for weeks prior to the unrest on Jan. 6, conspired to collect and transport weapons across the country, and while armed with a hatchet joined his co-conspirators and a mob of other rioters during the insurrection, federal prosecutors wrote in a newly filed brief in preparation for the former chief's upcoming sentencing.
Even if Mr. Hostetter sincerely believed which it appears he did that the election was fraudulent, that President Trump was the rightful winner, and that public officials committed treason, as a former police chief he still must have known it was unlawful to vindicate that perceived injustice by engaging in mob violence to obstruct Congress, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said.
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