Woman who said she wanted to shoot Pelosi in the 'brain' on Jan 6 pleads guilty to misdemeanor

A Pennsylvania woman who said upon leaving the Jan. 6 Capitol breach that she had hoped to shooting House Speaker Nancy  in the brain pleaded guilty Tuesday to a misdemeanor charge.

"I would like to accept my responsibility for what I did, for my part in January 6," Dawn Bancroft, a 59-year-old resident of suburban Philadelphia, said in federal court in Washington, D.C.

She also admitted to saying, "We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the friggin' brain, but we didn't find her," a comment captured on video as she left the building,

Judge Emmet Sullivan questioned why Bancroft was not being asked to take more responsibility, calling the words she used "horrible" and "clearly troubling." He also asked prosecutors why Bancroft had not been charged with threatening a government official, which is a felony.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Murphy told Sullivan that there was no indication Bancroft intended to act on the comment. Bancroft's attorney added that it was not his client who posted the video where the comment can be heard online. 

Sullivan told Bancroft that her "outrageous statement" would come up again at her sentencing. He also requested that she spend some time thinking about how "good people who never got in trouble with the law," on Jan. 6, "morphed into terrorists."

Bancroft entered her guilty plea alongside her friend Diana Santos-Smith, also a resident of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The misdemeanor charge carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail. Both women are scheduled for sentencing on Jan. 25. 

Sullivan, who oversaw the prosecution of former Trump administration National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, has publicly questioned whether the Justice Department is being too lenient with Capitol breach participants.