Rioter who encountered senator gets over 4 years in prison

AOL - AP ^ | August 29th, 2022 | MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and NATHAN ELLGREN

[shadowlands1960]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Maryland man affiliated with the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Monday to more than four years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol, where he encountered Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer as his armed security detail led the New York Democrat to safety.

Joshua Pruitt, 40, was one of the few Capitol rioters to come face-to-face with a member of Congress during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by a mob of Donald Trump supporters, according to federal prosecutors.

“One look at Pruitt, and the leader of Senator Schumer’s security detail immediately saw the threat and hustled the 70-year-old senator down a hallway, having to change their evacuation route on a dime,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexis Loeb wrote in a court filing ahead of Monday's hearing.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Pruitt to four years and seven months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release, according to Bill Miller, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office for the District of Columbia.

[shadowlands1960]

[TexasFreeper2009]

Repeated murderers and rapists get slaps on the wrist and no bail. Jan 6th political prisoners get no bail and years in jail.

America in 2022.

[fruser1]

“having to change their evacuation route on a dime”

How terrible. /s

[skeeter]

This guy got four years because Schumer “saw” him? Sounds like justice to me.

How about those leftist punks who roughed up Rand Paul and his wife? How many years did they get?

[Monterrosa-24]

It sounds like he didn’t do anything except trespass and scare a limp-wristed politician by walking in his general direction. Four years for that seems like it is 3.9 years too long and that .1 should be a suspended sentence.

[j.havenfarm]

From the headline I thought it might be one of the Antifa goons who accosted Rand Paul and his wife as they were leaving the White House during the remote Republican convention. Silly me. I forgot Justice only gets applied to one side in this country

[glorgau]

Did Schumer drop a deuce when he saw the guy?

[Radix]

Stopped reading at ‘Rioter.’

[TChad]

Has Julie Kelly written about this guy?

[LuxAerterna]

Did any of these guys get 4 years in prison?

Rand Paul, wife swarmed by protesters while trying to leave the RNC

[Falconspeed]

“...far-right Proud Boys...” The writer is a coward. Please go talk to a few members of the Proud Boys, thank them for being veterans, and wish them luck as they polish their skills.

[Verginius Rufus]

Don’t forget the neigbhbor who physically attacked Rand Paul and broke one or more of his ribs. Did he spend any time in jail for that?

[fwdude]

Encountering Schumer is punishment enough.

[JBW1949]

Why do we hear “far-right”, “right-wing extremist”, “neo-con”,”ultra right-wing”???

Yet on the other side, all we hear is “democrat”....

[unixfox]

Stopped reading at ‘Rioter.’

Stopped reading at "Stormed the Capital"

[Steve Van Doorn]

said, "How about those leftist punks who roughed up Rand Paul and his wife? How many years did they get?"

Rand Paul was nearly killed. Paul spent time in the hospital in critical condition. Which some of his injuries will never go away.
The attacker Rene Boucher was first sentenced to 30 days in prison. The case was appealed for a larger sentence. The new judge gave him eight more months in prison and six months on home confinement

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"A Maryland man affiliated with the far-right Proud Boys extremist group … "

According to whom? Biased much?

Aren't Antifa and BLM far-left extremist groups?

[Eagles6]

Proud Boys are a “far right extremest group”
Antifa are “antifascist activists”.
BLM are a “civil rights, social justce organization”.
Got it?

[Steve Van Doorn]

I'm calling this the "RepubliCoon hunt"
Take off of the democrats "coon hunt" using the Klan which hunted republicans.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Hell, you can kill somebody these days and not get four years.