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‘QAnon Shaman’ accused of storming Capitol will be fed organic food in jail, judge rules

Jacob Chansley has been on hunger strike

FILE - In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, supporters of President Donald Trump, including Jacob Chansley, center with fur hat, are confronted by Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol in Washington. Chansleys lawyer says that he reached out to White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows about a possible pardon on behalf of the Arizona man, acknowledging it might be a reach but that there's nothing to lose. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Manuel Balce Ceneta, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Jacob Chansley, the Capitol rioter known as the “QAnon Shaman,” is on an apparent hunger strike while incarcerated.

Chansley’s attorney told a federal judge Wednesday that his client is not getting enough organic food in jail and he hasn’t eaten in more than a week.

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So the judge ordered he be provided just that.

Wednesday’s news comes after the D.C. jail denied Chansley’s request on Tuesday to eat only organic food.

Chansley claims he follows Shamanism and believes unnatural chemicals are an intrusion into his body.

Officials said he wasn’t able to name a religious need for organic food.

But the judge decided his religious belief and having been fed organic food in an Arizona jail were enough reasons to adjust Chansley’s diet.


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