“QAnon Shaman” Negotiating for a Plea Deal Following Mental Health Diagnosis

Jacob Chansley, the antheral nicknamed the “QAnon Shaman” aft helium was photographed wrong the Capitol wearing a horned headdress, shirtless and heavy tattooed, is negotiating for a plea woody aft officials astatine the national Bureau of Prisons (BOP) diagnosed him with transient schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression, and anxiety.

Defense lawyer Albert Watkins said officials confirmed Chansley’s intelligence information deteriorated owed to the accent of being held successful solitary confinement astatine a jailhouse successful Alexandria, Virginia.

“As helium spent much clip successful solitary confinement … the diminution successful his acuity was noticeable, adjacent to an untrained eye,” Watkins said.

Watkins noted that Chansley has not been declared mentally incompetent and that helium does not expect his lawsuit to beryllium ordered to acquisition intelligence wellness treatment. He says Chansley has expressed delusions “believing that helium was so related straight to Jesus and Buddha.”

“What we’ve done is we’ve taken a feline who is unarmed, harmless, peaceful … with a pre-existing intelligence vulnerability of significance, and we’ve rendered him a cocoa crockery mess,” Watkins said.

The BOP said that Covid-19 restrictions influenced their determination to spot Chansley successful solitary confinement but said successful a connection that adjacent those successful solitary confinement “have entree to unit and programming,”