Accused Capitol rioter Baked Alaska jailed for 30 days for macing Arizona bouncer

White supremacist internet personality Baked Alaska, already facing charges for joining in on the 6 January riot at the US Capitol, was sentenced to 30 days jail time on Thursday for pepper-spraying a bouncer at a Scottsdale, Arizona, nightclub in fall 2020.

Prosecutors had sought a six-month sentence for the man, whose real name is Tim Gionet.

A local judge opted for a lighter punishment, but still found jail time necessary, saying in court on Thursday, “If that doesn’t convince someone to amend their ways, I’m not sure what else will.”

In court, Gionet’s lawyers minimised the seriousness of the attack, arguing the pepper spray was “washed out with milk,” and that Gionet was already under close watch by authorities given the charges against him in the Capitol insurrection case.

“It’s not an unsupervised thing where he can run around doing whatever he wants,” Gionet’s lawyer said.