Defiant Proud Boy 'Spaz' screams 'Trump won' as he is jailed for 10 years for breaking into the Capitol
Criminal Justice,Capitol Chaos,Violence In America
A Proud Boys member who lit up a cigar for a 'victory smoke' after breaking into the Capitol with a riot shield yelled 'Trump won' to the court after being jailed for 10 years.
Dominic Pezzola's sentence on Friday is the third to have been handed to members of the far-right group this week.
Their case is one of the most serious brought in the unprecedented attack. Pezzola, of Rochester who owned a business called 'D Pezzola Flooring', was the only one of the five Proud Boys not to be convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Pezzola, known as 'Spaz', was convicted of a raft of charges, including assaulting or resisting a police officer, robbery of a police shield, destruction of government property and obstructing an official proceeding for his part in the January 6, 2021, riot.
'The reality is you were the one who did it,' US District Judge Timothy Kelly said during Friday's hearing.
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