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18 and 10 years in prison for members of the "Proud Boys" group for the attack on the Capitol

2023-09-02 08:23:27Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA ASSOCIATED PRESS
18 and 10 years in prison for members of the "Proud Boys" group for
18 and 10 years in prison for members of the "Proud Boys" group for the attack on the Capitol

WASHINGTON – A former leader of the far-right group Proud Boys was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 riots at the United States Capitol, again receiving a record sentence for the attack.

Ethan Nordean is now among the five members convicted of leading the attack on the United States Capitol in an attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election.

"He was the undisputed leader on the ground on January 6," said prosecutor Jason McCullough.

The president of the Seattle branch was one of two members of the group Proud Boys sentenced on Friday.

Another former member of the extremist group that broke a Capitol window during the January 6, 2021 attack was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. While leaving the courtroom, he declared "Trump won!".

Dominic Pezzolan's sentence, also among the longest for January 6, followed sentences given to ringleaders found guilty of leading the attack. The most important defendant in the months-long trial is the group's former chief executive, Enrique Tarrio, who is expected to be sentenced on Tuesday.

Mr. Pezzola, 46, took a police officer's shield and used it to smash a window, enabling the first forced entry into the Capitol. He later filmed a celebratory video with a cigar in hand inside the building, prosecutors said. He was, however, among the new recruits of the Proud Boys, and the jury found him not guilty of the most important charge, that of conspiracy to rebel, a charge rarely used during the Civil War era. He was found guilty of other serious charges, and prosecutors had sought 20 years in prison.

"He was just an enthusiastic soldier," said prosecutor Erik Kenerson.

Judge Timothy Kelly noted that Mr. Pezzola, a resident of New York state, was a newcomer to the group and did not post violent online messages like the other defendants before the Jan. 6 attack. He did, however, serve as the mastermind of the attack that enabled entry into the Capitol, said the judge, who decided to include an aiding and abetting terrorism clause in the sentence.

"The reality is that you broke the window and let people flood into the Capitol building and endanger the lives of our legislators," the judge told Mr. Pezzola. "It is not something I could have dreamed that we would see in our country."

Defense lawyers had asked for five years in prison for Mr Pezzola, saying he had been "taken by the madness" of that day.

Mr. Pezzola had testified in court that he had initially taken the officer's shield to protect himself, but his lawyers said he only broke one pane of glass and that it was other participants who broke the rest of the window.

He told the judge he wished he had never entered the restricted area on January 6 and apologized to the police officer whose shield he grabbed. "There is no place in my future for political groups of any kind," he said.

But later, as he was leaving the courtroom, he raised his fist and said: "Trump won!".


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