Dominic Pezzola told his trial there is no place in his future for politics – before falsely claiming the former US president won the 2020 election.
A former member of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group defiantly declared “Trump won” after being sentenced to 10 years in prison.
The highest-profile defendant in the months-long trial, former top Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, will be sentenced on Tuesday. US district judge Timothy Kelly noted that Pezzola, of Rochester, New York, was a newcomer to the group who did not write the kind of increasingly violent online messages that his co-defendants did leading up to the attack.
Pezzola told his trial he originally grabbed the officer’s shield to protect himself from police riot control measures, and his lawyers argued that he broke only one pane of glass and it was other rioters who smashed out the rest of the window. Joseph Biggs, an organiser from Ormond Beach, Florida, got 17 years, and Zachary Rehl, a leader of the Philadelphia chapter, got 15 years.
Defence lawyers pushed back against the idea that Nordean was more responsible for the attack than others and denied there was any plan to attack the Capitol that day.The Proud Boys’ trial laid bare far-right extremists’ embrace of lies by Mr Trump, a Republican, that the 2020 election was stolen from him.
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