Posted on 09/05/2023 2:56:05 PM PDT by Coronal
WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - A former chairman of the right-wing Proud Boys group was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump trying to overturn the former president's election defeat.
Enrique Tarrio was convicted of charges, including seditious conspiracy, for his role in planning the storming of the Capitol, when thousands of supporters of the Republican then-U.S. president violently tried to stop Congress from certifying the results of an election that Trump falsely claimed had widespread fraud.
Federal prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly to impose a 33-year prison sentence on Tarrio, who was not present at the Capitol on the day of the violence because another judge had ordered him to stay out of Washington. Prosecutors said he helped direct the attack from Baltimore.
Tarrio's attorneys had asked for a substantially shorter sentence.
Kelly last week sentenced another far-right Proud Boys leader, Ethan Nordean, to 18 years, less than the 27 years prosecutors had sought. Oath Keepers militia founder Stewart Rhodes in May was also sentenced to 18 years. Nordean and Rhodes had previously been tied for the longest sentence handed down in the case.
More than 1,100 people have been arrested on charges related to the Capitol assault, and of those at least 630 have pleaded guilty and at least 110 have been convicted at trial. Five people, including a police officer, died during or shortly after the riot and more than 140 police officers were injured. The Capitol suffered millions of dollars in damage.
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Is this justice, Timothy Kelly?
Political prisoner.
Unequal justice.
Anti-Kavanaugh protestors “occupied” the Capitol also to stop a Supreme Court nomination which is equal to what they charge this guy with.
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Brett Kavanaugh protesters ignore police barricades, occupy the U.S. Capitol
Adam Rosenberg
October 6, 2018
https://news.yahoo.com/news/brett-kavanaugh-protesters-ignore-police-194043428.html
All of these sentences are a total, complete, unadulterated travesty.
22 years, you will get less for manslaughter anywhere
Yet GOP “leaders” do nothing about it
Bet you the Puerto Rican terrorists who shot up the Capitol in 1954 served less time than this guy will.
No Bias from reuters
Every article from most publications all start with the riot Trump started.
Nevermind that Trump was still speaking when Epps was on the steps of the Capital building and the police were escorting ANTIFA through the Hall ways
The Federalist Society recommending him. The next Republican President can’t listen to them.
They are trying to make an example of people to suppress protests.
This will actually serve the opposite.
F***ing travesty of justice is what it is.
Are you familiar with the White Rose?
A police officer, died during or shortly after the riot.
He had a heart attack days later the so called riot had nothing to do with it.
More of Reuters creative writing and drama for the propaganda cause.
The don’t report about the D.C. cop murdering an unarmed woman and receiving an award for it.
Pffffft...hard to feel bad about these pride boys. Buncha mildly successful middle aged dudes who think they look tacticool running around the woods in their airsoft gear yelling “molon the labia!” Bunch of loons to begin with. Who storms a building - much less a federal building - unarmed? Some “insurrection”.
Question: The building suffered millions of dollars of damage?
There were some windows broken. I haven’t seen other damage on video. What was damaged that would cost millions? Or is this so expensive because the window replacement guys were union workers?
Something you would see in the Soviet Union. Jailing your opposition.
First they came for The Proud Boys....
Looks like Che Guevara wannabe is now in the “find out” phase.
Sic semper stultus
:Is this justice”
Yeah. In the Soviet Union.
Then the Oathkeepers.
Then, Three Percenters.
Not to mention, Boogaloo Boys.
Then the Patriot Front.
Then the Goyim Defense League in Florida.
oh the humanity.........
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