CHICAGO — A Joliet-area couple were sentenced Tuesday to probation and community service for entering the U.S. Capitol through a broken window during the Jan. 6 riot and joining a mob trying to break into the congressional chambers.
In sentencing John and Amy Schubert, of Crest Hill, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the couple were active participants in an attempt to subvert democracy and “replace it with the rule of the mob.”
“There here was nothing excusable or understandable about your conduct on Jan. 6,” the judge said during the hour-long hearing, which was held via a video link. “You were in the thick of it. … It took a large number of people to overcome the police and breach the building. It could not have been accomplished without people like you.”
