Billy Knutson has an incredibly thick skin for someone who has been in and out of the jail system since he was a teenager due to his street lifestyle of drinking and violence. After all, over his three terms, he was said to have taken some difficult choices. As a result, he was able to avoid difficulty for about ten years prior to January 6, 2021. At that point, this Mason City, Iowa, native felt that voter fraud had stolen Donald Trump’s 2020 presidential election, so he had to travel to Washington, DC, to participate in a rally.
Billy participated in the demonstration by crawling in through a broken window and recording everything, even though he hadn’t really anticipated it to escalate into a riot that would involve storming the Capitol. The fact is that, at first, there was no criminal complaint filed against him since, throughout his time inside the Capitol, he had never used physical force or interacted hostilely with local officials. Unfortunately, though, everything changed when he used the footage he’d captured for his music videos. Playboy the Beast is a rapper whose work typically revolves around his political views.
Billy was the subject of an official federal complaint on January 10, 2022, but only two days later, on four separate charges, he was taken into custody from his home in Mitchell, South Dakota. These included entering or staying on government property without authorization, disorderly conduct in the Capitol, disruptive behaviour in a restricted area, and parading, protesting, or picketing there. Ultimately, however, on April 13, 2022, Billy entered a guilty plea to a single charge; as a result, on August 26 he was sentenced to six months in prison, a year of supervised release, and $500 in restitution.