Proud Boy Joe Biggs receives 17 years in Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case

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Blkfyre

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/05/1197202616/enrique-tarrio-proud-boys-jan-6-sentence

Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years for Jan. 6 riot role

Enrique Tarrio, the former national chairman of the Proud Boys, has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Tarrio was one of six Proud Boys leaders to be charged for conspiring to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election results in Congress. Of them, he has received the longest prison sentence to date.

Prosecutors asked for a 33-year sentence. Tarrio's attorneys, however, pleaded with Judge Kelly to impose a sentence of no longer than 15 years.

So far, Tarrio's co-defendants in the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy case have been sentenced to prison stays far shorter than what the government requested of the court.

Tarrio, Nordean, Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl were all convicted for seditious conspiracy and other crimes in May. A fifth defendant, Dominic Pezzola, was acquitted on that charge but found guilty of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers and robbery involving government property.

Tarrio was also convicted for obstructing an official proceeding, conspiracy to prevent an officer from discharging their duties, obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder and destruction of government property with value of over $1,000.

I guess the Proud Boys are following Trump's advice to "Stand back, and Stand by", they just didn't realize they would be standing by decades in jail tho 🙂

Bande

Quote from: Danno on Sep 01, 2023, 10:17 AMso you are saying he never entered the capital?


You missed it then..

10 year terrorist enhancement for shaking the fence. A fence is such a weapon....

Blkfyre

Quote from: Bande on Sep 05, 2023, 08:48 PMYou missed it then..

10 year terrorist enhancement for shaking the fence. A fence is such a weapon....


Only part of the story:

"U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, who handed down Biggs' sentence, ruled earlier in the hearing that Biggs' tearing down of a fence between police and rioters qualified him for a terrorism sentencing enhancement sought by prosecutors. Destroying the fence was a "deliberate, meaningful step" that contributed to the disruption of the electoral vote count occurring in the Capitol, Kelly said."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/capitol-police-injuries-riot/

"In total, more than 150 officers were injured in the attack: 86 Capitol Police officers reported injuries, the sources said, along with 65 members of the Metropolitan Police Department, Chief Robert Contee testified in January.

Violence that day left officers with head wounds, cracked ribs and smashed spinal disks, according to Capitol Police Labor Committee Chairman Gus Papathanasiou.

One Metropolitan Police officer, identified in court documents only as "A.W." said he was pulled into the crowd, kicked, hit with poles and stomped on by several individuals. He emerged from the crowd bleeding from his head, with a laceration that required two staples to close.

Riot defendant and former Green Beret Jeffrey McKellop allegedly assaulted four officers, shoving a flagpole into an officer's face and then throwing it like a "spear," causing a laceration near the officer's left eye, prosecutors said.

Officer Mike Fanone, a D.C. Metropolitan police officer, penned a letter in May about his ongoing trauma after he was pulled into a crowd, beaten and repeatedly Tased on January 6. Prosecutors have said that as a result of being attacked in the crowd, Fanone lost consciousness and was subsequently hospitalized for his injuries.

"Since then I have struggled with many aspects of that day. As the physical injuries gradually subsided," Fanone wrote, "in crept the psychological trauma."

But yeah, go ahead and minimize it to "shaking the fence"...


HighStepper

Quote from: Bande on Sep 05, 2023, 08:48 PM10 year terrorist enhancement for shaking the fence. A fence is such a weapon....
Biggs cried like a little whiny baby to Alex Jones on Infowars that he was convicted for "shaking a fence."

The jury based on actual evidence determined that he did more than just shaking a fence.


Too much sex is still not enough.

zoezane

Good, Tarrio is just another terrorist jab at Trump who did not call National Guard & laughed at the Capital in bunker.  HA HA HA
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