A man who helped a mob that was seizing riot shields from police officers on Jan. 6 and used a metal baton he’d found to try and knock a pepper spray canister from an officer’s hand has been sentenced to almost four years in prison, prosecutors say.
handed down in the riot by a pro-Trump mob as Congress was counting the electoral votes of President Joe Biden’s win.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said during sentencing that “the attack on the Capitol that day was an attack on the very rule of law in our country.”
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