You said it, I didn’t
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Another Proud Boy who tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power is going to prison, and this one received an appropriate sendoff:
A federal judge sentenced Proud Boy member Dominic Pezzola to 10 years behind bars Friday, four months after he was found guilty on obstruction and other charges relating to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Pezzola was found not guilty on the most serious charge of the trial, seditious conspiracy, unlike his four Proud Boy co-defendants this past May. But he played a key role in the riot as the first person to smash through a Capitol window using a stolen police shield, and prosecutors argued he should spend 20 years behind bars.
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Prosecutors said Nordean acted like “the general of an army” the day of the riot, leading “his men” across trampled police barricades.
Pezzola took the risky step of testifying at the group’s trial. He did not deny his actions.
“I got caught up in all the craziness,” he said, per The Washington Post. “I broke one pane of glass — one.”
Let us pause to acknowledge another classic in the “describe elements of crimes committed by MAGA nuts at the most generic and decontextualized level possible.”
[Ted Bundy is found guilty] “Oh, so it’s illegal to ask someone for directions now?”
He said he had only wanted the government to listen to him.
In a video taken from inside the Capitol, Pezzola can be heard saying: “I knew we could take this motherfucker over if we just tried hard enough! Proud of your motherfucking boy!”
As Nordean put it in his own post-riot video, which was entered into evidence: “Seventeen-seventy-fucking-six, bitch!”
During his sentencing, Pezzola’s wife, Lisa Magee, cried as she gave a statement to the court.
“In no way am I making excuses for Dominic’s actions that day,” she said. “As I said on the stand, he’s a fucking idiot.”
Who am I to argue?
…Another fucking idiot goes down:
An Auburn man and prominent member of the Proud Boys far-right extremist group, who led a pro-Trump mob to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced Friday to 18 years in federal prison for seditious conspiracy and other federal crimes committed that day.
Ethan Nordean, 33, known in right-wing circles by his alias, Rufio Panman, was convicted in May for his actions leading to the attempt to obstruct Congress’ certification of the 2020 election of Joe Biden. Other charges included obstruction of law enforcement and conspiracy.
His sentence matches the longest handed down to any of the hundreds of prosecuted Jan. 6 defendants.