Richard Barnett

An Arkansas man photographed with his feet on a desk in House speaker Nancy Pelosi's office after joining the mob that barged into the US Capitol in 2021 was sentenced on Wednesday to four and a half years in prison.

Richard Barnett, 62, leaned back comfortably in a chair and propped up his boots on the desk in the office of the powerful politician as an AFP photographer snapped pictures on January 6, 2021.

An Arkansas man photographed with his feet on a desk in House speaker Nancy Pelosi's office after joining the mob that barged into the US Capitol in 2021 was sentenced on Wednesday to four and a half years in prison.

Richard Barnett, 62, leaned back comfortably in a chair and propped up his boots on the desk in the office of the powerful politician as an AFP photographer snapped pictures on January 6, 2021.