Release the Capitol riot desk jockey!

Spare a thought for Arkansas window installer Richard Barnett, still languishing in a DC federal prison almost three months after the Capitol riot.

He became Public Enemy No. 1 after he displeased Nancy Pelosi by strolling into her open office and putting his foot up on the desk of one of her aides. The photograph went viral.

On Monday, his lawyers will file a new motion for him to be released on bond to await his trial at home, as does anyone who is not a threat to the community. And Barnett, a 60year-old Trump supporter with health problems and no criminal record, is not a threat to anyone.

Joseph McBride, Barnett’s lead lawyer, points out there are plenty of cases that show “a clear pattern of actually violent protesters being granted pretrial release, such as Elizabeth Duke, who bombed the US Capitol in 1983 and jumped bail in 1985, only to have to her case dismissed in 2009 under then-President Obama.”

“We also provide more recent cases involving protesters who firebombed police stations/ police vehicles in 2020, as well a litany of January 6th Capitol cases . . . where pretrial release was granted under the Bail Reform Act . . .”

Barnett’s lengthy pretrial detention is an affront to the presumption of innocence, which “comes at the expense of our constitutionally protected rights . . . The government has materially misrepresented facts and criminalized perfectly legal conduct, in order to overcome the Bail Reform Act’s strong presumption against pretrial detention.”

The zeal of the Biden administration’s law-enforcement arm to track down and lock up every last person who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6 is starting to look unhinged.

Federal prosecutor Michael Sherwin, who is running the DOJ’s Capitol riot investigation, even gleefully described the arrests on CBS’s “60 Minutes” as a “shock and awe” mission. He looks to be enjoying himself more than a person in his position should.