Princeton graduate gets 2 months for storming Capitol on Jan. 6

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A man who was a Princeton University student when he stormed the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Wednesday to two months of incarceration for interfering with police officers trying to hold off a mob of Donald Trump supporters.

Larry Fife Giberson, who graduated from Princeton earlier this year, was a 19-year-old sophomore majoring in political science when he and other rioters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. He joined the crowd in a coordinated push against officers guarding an entrance in a tunnel on the Capitol's Lower West Terrace.

Giberson, now 22, expressed remorse and shame for his "careless and thoughtless actions" at the Capitol before U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols sentenced him.

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"I don't believe my defining moment was there on the Lower West Terrace," he told the judge. "Instead, I believe my defining moment is now, standing before you."

Prosecutors had recommended sentencing Giberson to 11 months behind bars.

The judge, who also sentenced Giberson to six months of home detention after his term of imprisonment, described the New Jersey native's conduct in the tunnel as "reprehensible." But the judge said Giberson's youth weighed in favor of a more lenient sentence. Nichols told Giberson that he views his two-month sentence as "something of a break."

"I do believe that his expressions of remorse, generally and then again today, are candid and truthful," the judge said. "That's important to me."

Giberson pleaded guilty in July to interfering with police during a civil disorder. The charge, a felony, carries a maximum prison sentence of five years.

Giberson faced a