{"id":2019656,"date":"2023-09-01T17:16:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T21:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-yells-2-defiant-words-in-court-after-being-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-on-jan-6-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T17:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T21:19:17","slug":"man-yells-2-defiant-words-in-court-after-being-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-on-jan-6-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-yells-2-defiant-words-in-court-after-being-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-on-jan-6-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Man defiantly shouts two words in court after receiving 10-year prison sentence for Jan. 6 charges."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-yells-2-defiant-words-in-court-after-being-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-on-jan-6-charges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2019656&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former Proud Boys \u200bMember Sentenced\u200b to 10 Years in Prison for Capitol Breach<\/h2>\n<p>A former member of the\u2064 Proud Boys extremist group, Dominic Pezzola, was\u200d sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday for his involvement \u200bin the first breach \u2063of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. As he defiantly walked out of\u200d the courtroom, Pezzola declared, &#8220;Trump \u200bwon!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This sentencing comes after leaders\u2064 of the\u200d Proud Boys were convicted of spearheading an attack aimed at \u2063preventing\u2062 the peaceful transfer of power from\u2062 Donald Trump to\u200b Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Pezzola, 46,\u2064 took a police officer&#8217;s riot shield\u200b and used \u2062it to smash a window, \u2064allowing rioters to make\u2063 the initial breach into the Capitol. He even filmed a &#8220;celebratory video&#8221; with a cigar inside the building, according to \u2062prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Although\u2064 Pezzola was acquitted \u200bof \u2063the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-mccaul-biden-admins-weakness-allowing-china-to-create-war-machine\/\" title=\"Rep. McCaul: Biden Admin\u2019s Weakness Allowing China to Create \u2018War Machine\u2019\">high-profile charge<\/a>, seditious conspiracy, he\u200d was\u2062 convicted\u200d of\u200b other serious charges. Prosecutors had initially asked for a 20-year \u200cprison sentence.<\/p>\n<h3>A &#8220;Tip of\u200b the Spear&#8221; in the Capitol Breach<\/h3>\n<p>During the\u2064 trial, prosecutor Erik \u2064Kenerson described Pezzola as an enthusiastic foot soldier. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly acknowledged that Pezzola was a newcomer to the group\u200d and \u200ddid \u2064not write the \u200cincreasingly \u200dviolent online messages \u200dthat his co-defendants did. However, the judge emphasized that Pezzola played \u2062a significant role in allowing rioters to enter the \u2063Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The\u2064 reality is you smashed \u2063that window in and let people begin to stream into\u2062 the Capitol \u2063building and threaten the\u200c lives of our \u2063lawmakers,&#8221; Judge Kelly told \u2064Pezzola. \u200c&#8221;It&#8217;s not something that I ever dreamed \u2062I would have seen\u2063 in our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Defense attorneys had requested a \u200bfive<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-pardon-jon-woods-a-victim-of-process-crimes-like-michael-flynn\/\" title=\"President Trump, Please Pardon Jon Woods, a Victim of Process Crimes Like Michael Flynn\">-year sentence<\/a>, arguing that Pezzola got caught up in the \u2064chaos of the\u2062 day. Pezzola testified that he initially grabbed\u200d the officer&#8217;s shield to protect himself from \u200dpolice \u200driot \u2062control measures. His\u200c lawyers also\u2064 claimed that he\u200b only broke one pane of glass, and it was\u200c other rioters who caused further\u2063 damage to the window.<\/p>\n<p>Expressing Regret\u2062 and Apology<\/p>\n<p>Pezzola expressed regret\u200b for crossing into \u200ba restricted \u2063area on January 6 and apologized to the officer whose shield \u2064he took. He assured the \u2064judge that he\u200b had no \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-yells-2-defiant-words-in-court-after-being-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-on-jan-6-charges\/\" title=\"Man defiantly shouts two words in court after receiving 10-year prison sentence for Jan. 6 charges.\">future\u200b plans involving extremist groups<\/a> or politics.<\/p>\n<p>However, as he\u2062 left the courtroom,\u200b Pezzola \u200draised his fist and defiantly shouted,\u2064 &#8220;Trump won!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other Sentencings and Ongoing Trials<\/p>\n<p>Ethan Nordean, another former Proud Boy chapter president, is also scheduled to be sentenced on the\u2062 same day.\u200c Prosecutors are seeking a\u200c 27-year\u200d prison sentence for him.\u200b In \u200baddition, two co-defendants received \u200dlengthy prison terms on Thursday: Joseph Biggs received 17\u200c years, \u2062and \u2064Zachary Rehl received 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>The sentencing for former\u2062 top\u200b Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was \u2063postponed\u200b due to the judge&#8217;s illness. Tarrio is expected to be\u200c sentenced next week.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 trial of the\u200b Proud \u2064Boys has exposed the extremists&#8217; belief in the\u2064 false claims that the 2020 election was\u2064 stolen from Trump.<\/p>\n<p>So far, over 1,100 people\u2064 have been charged with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vaccine-lockdown-critic-dr-simone-gold-sentenced-to-2-months-in-prison\/\" title=\"Vaccine, lockdown critic Dr. Simone Gold sentenced to 2 months in prison\">federal crimes related<\/a> to the Capitol breach. Of those, more than 600 have \u2064been convicted and sentenced.<\/p>\n<p>The longest prison \u200csentence related \u200cto the January 6\u200c attack\u200d was 18 years, given to Stewart Rhodes, the\u2064 founder of another extremist \u200bgroup called \u200bthe \u200dOath Keepers. Six members of the Oath \u2064Keepers were\u200c convicted of seditious conspiracy in a separate\u2064 trial \u200clast year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal\u2062 has reviewed this Associated Press story and may \u200chave\u200c altered it \u200bprior to \u200bpublication \u2063to ensure \u2064that it meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2064 post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-man-yells-2-defiant-words-court-sentenced-10-years-prison-jan-6-charges\/\">Man Yells \u200c2 Defiant \u2064Words\u2064 in Court After Being Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison on Jan. 6 Charges<\/a> appeared first on\u200b <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Proud Boys ex-member, who broke a window during the initial breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, received a 10-year prison sentence. Upon leaving the courtroom, he defiantly proclaimed, &#8220;Trump won!&#8221; Dominic&#8217;s sentence was handed down on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":2019657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2019656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2019657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}