It’s so very excellent when the wheels of justice run smoothly and quickly. Those wheels definitely ran smoothly over Robert Scott Palmer who assaulted Capitol Police during the Jan. 6 attempted siege of the Capitol. Palmer was slapped Friday with a five-year stint in prison, the longest sentence handed out so far among all of the cases related to the deadly riots that then-president Donald Trump-inspired, Raw Story reports.

According to NBC News, Palmer, 54, of Florida was sentenced to 63 months in prison for assaulting several officers as the Jan. 6, riot raged on.

“Prosecutors said he threw a wooden plank [sic] the police, then picked up a fire extinguisher and sprayed its contents at a line of officers, throwing the canister at them after it was empty,” NBC News noted. “A few minutes, prosecutors said, he picked up the fire extinguisher and threw it at them a second time and assaulted another group of officers with a metal pole, throwing it like a spear.”

Palmer, like so many others in his well-deserved predicament, pleaded for leniency and expressed regret for his actions, and blamed Trump for lying to supporters about the “stolen election.” Well, Trump certainly did light that fuse now didn’t he? Palmer also wrote, “[We] were lied to by … the sitting president, as well as those acting on his behalf.”

Fortunately, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan wasn’t swayed by this and she came down harder on him than a Sitka spruce hitting a semi.

“It has to be made clear that violently trying to violently overthrow the government, trying to stop the peaceful transition of power, and assaulting law enforcement officers in that effort is going to be met with absolutely certain punishment,” Chutkan said Friday.

Kudos to this judge for giving Palmer all the time he needs to ponder his actions for the next 63 months.

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