A federal judge has ordered the return of Jacob Anthony Chansley’s distinctive horned wolf tail headdress and cane that were seized during the investigation of the Jan. 6 incident at the Capitol.
Jacob Chansley, a Native American faith healer who served in the U.S. Navy for two years, was sentenced to months in solitary confinement for his peaceful participation in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill protests. 41 months in prison.
Jacob Chansley, aka the American Shaman, has never committed any act of violence. He urged others to remain peaceful, pray at the U.S. Capitol and remain under the guidance of police at all times.
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Tucker Carlson obtained 44,000 hours of never-before-seen Capitol surveillance video and trumpeted the Jan. 6 coverage on prime-time television.
Free Jacob Chansley! pic.twitter.com/nSdPWKNOGa
— Alexander Sheppard (@NotAlexSheppard) March 7, 2023
Video of Jacob Chansley reading a tweet from President Donald Trump instructing protesters to “go home” and remain peaceful has resurfaced online.
“President Donald Trump is asking everyone to go home! So what are we going to do? We are going to obey our president, we are going to do what he asks, and then we go home. “We are not Antifa! “
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BREAKING NEWS: Video has resurfaced of Jacob Chansley reading Trump’s tweet telling protesters to “go home” and stay peaceful. pic.twitter.com/dhJKYKrblT
— Political Briefing (@NewsBecker) March 10, 2023
In December 2021, Chansley, then in solitary confinement at the Alexandria Detention Center in Virginia, defended himself from attack in an exclusive interview with The Gateway Pundit, saying: “I’m not an extremist. I’m not an insurrectionist I’m not a domestic terrorist. I’m not an actor. I can’t count how many times they say I’m schizophrenic.
He added, “They said I call myself a Qanon shaman, even though I never called myself a Qanon shaman, but that was the title given to me by Alex Jones. So they’re totally on so many different levels. Inaccurately, they highlighted my image, they exaggerated my behavior to make it look as bad as possible. I think I’m a perfect example of the media being clearly biased and having ulterior motives, and they don’t. Report the truth.
In October 2023, Chansley wrote a column in “The Gateway Pundit” claiming that the events of January 6 were “deep state psychological warfare.”
“J6 is an orchestrated Deep State operation to conduct psychological operations (PSYOP) designed to target Trump and label his supporters as domestic terrorists. In this article, I will describe in detail why I believe it was Really, and how to explain it to others,” he wrote.
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EXCLUSIVE: The January 6th column written by “Shaman” Jacob Chansley! “J6 is a deep state spy and I can prove it!” Read this exclusive article written by Shaman himself!
Chansley was released in April 2023 and has completed his sentence and most of his supervised release.
He filed a motion under Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 41(g) seeking the return of his property, which he believed the government no longer needed as evidence.
Federal Judge Royce Lambert granted the motion, emphasizing that the government had failed to demonstrate a continuing need for the items as evidence in the case against him.
“Pursuant to Rule 41(g), the court concludes that the government must return Mr. Chansley’s property,” according to the ruling reviewed by The Gateway Pundit.
Chansley said in a statement to The Gateway Pundit, “I respect and thank Judge Lamberth for his impartial ruling. He simply asked the government to abide by the law as written.”
The ruling follows a landmark ruling by the Supreme Court Fisher v. United States (2024), clarifies the legal boundaries of obstruction charges.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court (SCOTUS) struck down the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) use of 1512(c)(2), a statute related to obstruction of official proceedings, in cases related to the January 6 incident ( J6).
This decision reveals that the Justice Department unlawfully prosecuted more than 350 Americans for their participation in events on January 6, a blatant abuse of the law aimed at punishing those protesting Biden’s election and criminalizing political dissent .
