A judge denied the 'Q Shaman's' bid to get out of jail for the third time

• A federal judge denied the "Q Shaman's" latest bid to get out of jail ahead of his trial.
• Jacob Chansley's attorney had argued his client wasn't holding a real spear at the Capitol riot.
• The judge said he'd seen no new information that changed his perception of Chansley's dangerousness.

A federal judge on Tuesday denied the latest attempt to spring the self-styled "Q Shaman" from a Colorado jail ahead of his trial.

Jacob Chansley, who gained notoriety by wearing a headdress with fur and horns during the January 6 Capitol siege, faces six charges stemming from the insurrection.

His attorney argued on June 30 that Chansley should be released due to new evidence showing that the "spear" he brought to the Capitol was actually just a flagpole with a "finial" zip-tied to the top and that it posed no danger to anyone.

The attorney, Al Watkins, also argued that Chansley could be released to his mother's home in Arizona or to a "secure location" in St. Louis where Watkins could keep track of him.

District Judge Royce Lamberth wasn't persuaded by either argument, ruling that Chansley's attorney hadn't offered any new information that changed his perception of Chansley's dangerousness or risk of fleeing and had provided no details on the "secure location" in St. Louis.

Lamberth added that he had previously rejected Chansley's mother as a custodian, given that she repeatedly told "60 Minutes+" in an interview that Chansley "did nothing wrong."

"After Chansley's first detention hearing, the Court found by clear and convincing evidence that no conditions of release could reasonably assure the safety of the community," Lamberth wrote, adding that nothing has substantially changed since that initial ruling.

Chansley is detained at a federal facility in Colorado, where he will soon be evaluated for his mental fitness to stand trial, court documents said.

Watkins has repeatedly raised questions about his client's mental health. During the June 30 hearing, he called Chansley "a man who needs some attention that he is not able to get," and even told Talking Points Memo in an interview that the Capitol riot defendants were "f---ing short-bus people."