Leftover News Staff – October 2, 2025
On September 30, 2025, Judge Amy Berman Jackson denied former Washington, D.C. police lieutenant Shane Brian Lamond’s one final request to delay his surrender to the Bureau of Prisons.
From the start, the case against Lamond reeked of politics. DOJ indicted him in May 2023 for allegedly “tipping off” Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio about an investigation into a church banner-burning and a pending arrest warrant. But during trial, both Lamond and Tarrio testified that their communications were legitimate intelligence work, not leaks. Tarrio swore under oath that Lamond never gave him privileged information, never warned him of an arrest, and was simply doing his job as an intelligence officer.
Leftover News staff contacted Tarrio for comment.
“Yesterday we’ve witness the continuation of the Biden Regimes weaponization of the DOJ. A father, a son and an example of community policing has turned himself into to BOP custody for a crime he did not commit. Today America failed him. Our justice system failed. The only thing that would fix this injustice is a pardon or commutation from the president. I hope they know what’s at stake if we allow this travesty of justice “
Lamond, who was convicted in December 2024 and sentenced in June 2025 to an 18 month long sentence, had argued his serious medical conditions including back issues, injections, and a possible spinal surgery warranted further postponement.
Jackson dismissed that plea as not constituting a true ’emergency,’ and ordered Lamond to report as scheduled yesterday, October 1.
That ruling effectively forces Lamond to serve his term while burdened by significant health risks, a decision his supporters say reflects outright political targeting, not ordinary justice.
Judge Jackson ignored that testimony, dismissing Tarrio as “one of the worst witnesses” she had ever seen. Dislike for a witness is not proof of guilt.
The reality is that the only direct evidence supported Lamond’s innocence. Prosecutors twisted ordinary source cultivation into “obstruction” and cast his denials as “false statements.”
This trial was a political show trial, not a pursuit of truth. Judge Jackson sentenced Lamond to 18 months in prison, rejecting pleas for leniency and ignoring the flimsiness of the case.
Prosecutors had sought up to four years, further proof they wanted to make an example of Lamond, not achieve justice.
The grassroots outrage exploded online. Posts called Lamond’s imprisonment a symbol of a much darker shift in America. Tarrio said it plainly:
“Shane Lamond is officially in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons. We now have ANOTHER political prisoner who was a victim of Biden’s weaponization of our justice system. The amount of political prisoners was suppose to go down….not up.”
Along with Tarrio, Alex Jones and others pushed for a pardon until the very last moment. They argued what is obvious to anyone who reviews the record: Shane Lamond is innocent, the evidence points to his innocence, and his conviction was purely political. Yet the establishment refused.
What does this mean? It means America now has a cop behind bars for the crime of doing his job. It means the DOJ can criminalize routine intelligence work if it involves the “wrong” people. It means testimony, very much like that we heard in J6er trials, affirming innocence can be disregarded because it doesn’t fit the narrative. It means our ‘justice system’ has abandoned fairness for politics.
Shane Lamond is innocent. He is a political prisoner who must be pardoned. Continued imprisonment is an assault not only on his rights but on the very idea of equal justice under law.
Case Timeline
- May 18, 2023 – DOJ files indictment: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/press-release/file/1584476/dl
- Late 2024 – Bench trial before Judge Jackson: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/former-mpd-intelligence-supervisor-guilty-obstructing-investigation-and-making-false
- December 2024 – Convicted on obstruction and false statement counts despite testimony supporting innocence.
- June 6, 2025 – Sentenced to 18 months; surrender set for August 1: https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/politics/2025/06/06/former-dc-police-officer-sentenced-to-18-months-for-lying-about-leaking-info-to-proud-boys-leader/
- Summer 2025 – Temporary surrender extensions granted citing medical issues.
- September 30, 2025 – Final delay motion denied; Jackson orders reporting October 1.
- October 1, 2025 – Lamond enters Bureau of Prisons custody.
Now that Lamond has entered federal custody, attention shifts to where he will serve his sentence and whether his health condition will worsen behind bars. Reports suggest he could be assigned to a low-security federal facility in the Mid-Atlantic region, though the Bureau of Prisons does not comment publicly on designations. If his back condition deteriorates, Lamond could pursue a petition for compassionate release or medical furlough, a move that would put the administration in the uncomfortable position of justifying why a man needing surgery was denied care before being locked up.
Political allies are unlikely to let the story fade. Tarrio has vowed to keep Lamond’s case front and center in the fight against what he calls Biden’s two-tier justice system.
Alex Jones has already floated the idea of building a public campaign to demand clemency, describing Lamond as a frontline victim of the regime’s war on dissent. Grassroots campaigns online are preparing fundraising drives for Lamond’s family, aiming to highlight the human cost of what they see as a politicized conviction.
Lamond may also explore appeals. Lamond’s legal team argued throughout trial that his communications with Tarrio were consistent with intelligence-gathering responsibilities, not criminal leaks. An appellate court could revisit whether Judge Jackson erred in rejecting Tarrio’s testimony or in assessing Lamond’s intent. While appeals in federal criminal cases rarely succeed, even the act of filing would keep his case in the public spotlight.
The broader implication of his imprisonment is the chilling effect it sends to law enforcement and intelligence officers. Lamond’s prosecution demonstrates that even career insiders can be targeted if their associations clash with political orthodoxy.
It tells other officers that working with controversial figures, even in the name of intelligence work, can be retroactively reframed as collaboration and punished accordingly.
What happens to Lamond now will reverberate beyond him. If his health collapses in prison, it will validate critics who warned that Jackson’s denial of medical delay was cruel.
When he emerges after 18 months he potentially become a potent symbol for those who believe the American justice system has abandoned neutrality. In either case, his story has already been written into the growing list of Americans branded political prisoners.
Leftover News will be reporting on all future updates and efforts to get Shane Lamond’s official presidential pardon.
