Dominic Pezzola took a police officer's riot shield and used it to smash a window which allowed rioters to make the first breach into the Capitol.
A former member of the far-right Proud Boys shouted"Trump won" as he was jailed for 10 years for his part in the January 6 Capitol riots.
Dominic Pezzola was the latest to be jailed after leaders of the group were convicted of spearheading an attack aimed at preventing the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 presidential election. The 46-year-old took a police officer's riot shield and used it to smash a window, allowing rioters to make the first breach into the Capitol.Pezzola was a recent Proud Boys recruit, however, and a jury acquitted him of the most high-profile charge of seditious conspiracy.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.
However, he was in some ways a"tip of the spear" in allowing rioters to get into the Capitol, the judge added. "The reality is you smashed that window in and let people begin to stream into the Capitol building and threaten the lives of our lawmakers," the judge told Pezzola.The defence had asked for five years for Pezzola, saying he got"caught up in the craziness" that day.and he apologised to the officer whose shield he took.
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