After Winning At The Supreme Court, J6 Defendant Joe Fischer Is Still Fighting To Get His Life Backormer Pennsylvania police officer Joe Fischer has a Supreme Court victory named after him, but that hasn’t erased the pain caused by the Biden Justice Department in connection with his presence at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, he told The Federalist in his first media interview.
If President-Elect Donald Trump keeps his word on his first day in office to pardon people involved in the J6 chaos in Washington, D.C., it will end four years of heartache for those in prison or still awaiting trial or sentencing.
Fischer, now 58, was a municipal police officer in Pennsylvania when he took a day off work and went to see Trump speak. Fischer told The Federalist he never intended to go inside the Capitol building, but he was near the door in a tight crowd and was swept inside.
“The crowd lunged forward, pushing me, and we all went forward. I fell on the ground just inside the threshold of the Capitol, and found a pair of handcuffs on the ground,” Fischer said. “I stood up and immediately gave them to a police officer who was about five or six feet in front of me, and I said, ‘Hey, you might need these, buddy.’”
Fischer said he was never more than 15 feet from the door, and was inside four or five minutes, during which he said he was pushed against a police crowd control shield and shot with pepper spray by police before falling to the ground.
“I was probably on the ground for about a minute or so, totally discombobulated, and then at some point, some police officers say, ‘Hey, you’ve got to go.’ And I’m like, ‘Hey, that’d be great if I could see. It’s hard to get out when you can’t see.’ He actually laughed at my comment.”
Fischer said police pushed him through the crowd and he was able to get outside. Once he connected with a traveling partner, they left the Capitol, got some food, and went home.
About a month later he was arrested in his home..............
..............Because of the charges, within six weeks, he lost the police job he held for 18 years.
“I had to sell off almost everything I have,” Fischer said. “I was able to keep the house and I was able to keep the car. But I lost pretty much everything else of mine. We’ve exhausted all savings and everything. We’ve had some friends and family help out occasionally. I lost my pension.”
The month-to-month financial struggle has not been helped by a diagnosis of aggressive prostate cancer, surgery, and soon, more radiation. All while the cloud of federal prison and fines hangs over his head.
Fischer said he was looking at 20 years for the obstruction charge alone, but he challenged it in a case that went to the U.S. Supreme Court. Did his brief presence inside the building obstruct Congress from conducting business that day? The Supreme Court ruled a person had to be doing something more than being present. .........................
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