Law Capitol Rioter Megathread

[idrankyourbeer]

we've got ourselves another sovereign citizen, and it appears as if things are going just as well for this one as it has for every other sovereign citizen who is not subject to the law.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

that sovereign citizen bullshit will turn your parking ticket into the death penalty. every. single. time.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

Capitol Rioter Who Assaulted Cops in Front of Teen Son Gets Harsh Prison Sentence​

Kyle Young, the 38-year-old Iowan who admitted to assaulting police during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as his 16-year-old son tagged along, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison on Tuesday—one of the harshest sentences to stem from the riot. Young admitted to using a strobe light to disorient police, before throwing a large audio speaker at a line of officers. An investigation also revealed that Young, a HVAC worker, handed a stun gun to a fellow rioter who then shocked Officer Mike Fanone with it. Fanone said during Young’s sentencing that the assault, which preceded a heart attack, cost him his career. “What I hope you do with that time [in jail] is I hope you suffer,” he told Young. The sentence matched what federal prosecutors had requested as they argued the “barbaric” assault took place in a violent portion of the insurrection. Young’s defense argued that he was was he “injected” with lies about the 2020 election and was not in a proper state of mind.

Capitol Rioter Who Assaulted Cops in Front of His Teen Son Gets 7 Years

“What I hope you do with that time [in jail] is I hope you suffer,” former officer Mike Fanone told Kyle Young.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[Strychnine]

Capitol Rioter Who Assaulted Cops in Front of Teen Son Gets Harsh Prison Sentence​

Kyle Young, the 38-year-old Iowan who admitted to assaulting police during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as his 16-year-old son tagged along, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison on Tuesday—one of the harshest sentences to stem from the riot. Young admitted to using a strobe light to disorient police, before throwing a large audio speaker at a line of officers. An investigation also revealed that Young, a HVAC worker, handed a stun gun to a fellow rioter who then shocked Officer Mike Fanone with it. Fanone said during Young’s sentencing that the assault, which preceded a heart attack, cost him his career. “What I hope you do with that time [in jail] is I hope you suffer,” he told Young. The sentence matched what federal prosecutors had requested as they argued the “barbaric” assault took place in a violent portion of the insurrection. Young’s defense argued that he was was he “injected” with lies about the 2020 election and was not in a proper state of mind.

Capitol Rioter Who Assaulted Cops in Front of His Teen Son Gets 7 Years

“What I hope you do with that time [in jail] is I hope you suffer,” former officer Mike Fanone told Kyle Young.

www.thedailybeast.com

Assaulted a cop in front of his kid?!?!

 

[PEB]

Lol

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Trump too dumb to destroy US democracy, says his ex-national security adviser​

John Bolton says former president ‘hasn’t got the brains’ to become dictatorial figure if he wins White House race against Joe Biden."

 

[idrankyourbeer]

that sovereign citizen bullshit will turn your parking ticket into the death penalty. every. single. time.

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Sovereign MAGA Trash gets dumpstered. Sentenced to 7 years in prison just to own the libs.​

Taylor James Johnatakis represented himself at trial and would not concede that he was subject to the laws of the United States.

WASHINGTON — A Washington magat who led an attack on officers on Jan. 6 and represented himself at trial using arguments a federal judge described as "bulls---" and "gobbledygook" was sentenced to seven years in federal prison on Wednesday.

Taylor James Johnatakis was convicted in November on felony counts of obstruction of an official proceeding, assaulting officers and civil disorder, as well as four misdemeanor charges. Judge Royce Lamberth, who was appointed to the bench by former President Ronald Reagan, said at the sentencing hearing on Wednesday that he was troubled by Johnatakis' "lack of remorse" and he was concerned that, if given the chance, Johnatakis might engage in violence again.

Noting the letters of support that Johnatakis' friends and family had sent to the court, Lamberth noted that Johnatakis was being held "accountable for what he did," not the person he is. Unfortunately, Lamberth said, Johnatakis left his good attributes at home "when he went to the Capitol on Jan. 6."

Much as he did during the trial, Johnatakis continued not to engage with the substance of the proceedings and instead advanced sovereign citizen arguments, indicating that he did not think he was subject to the federal justice system.

"Does the record reflect a repent of my sins?" Johnatakis asked the judge after his sentence was imposed on Wednesday.

Johnatakis indicated to the court that his family planned to move to Iowa after Lamberth asked if he preferred where he would like to serve his term. The federal Bureau of Prisons ultimately decides where Johnatakis will serve his sentence.

After Lamberth noted that he and Johnatakis had "an interesting relationship" over the course of his case, Johnatakis said, "I do honor what you do for this country." Wearing a prison jumpsuit, he then blew a kiss to members of his family, waved goodbye, and gave a thumbs up before being led back to serve out his sentence.

Earlier this year, Lamberth said he was "shocked" that "meritless justifications of criminal activity have gone mainstream," with Republican politicians defending the actions of Jan. 6 rioters.

“I have been dismayed to see distortions and outright falsehoods seep into the public consciousness,” Lamberth said. “The Court fears that such destructive, misguided rhetoric could presage further danger to our country.”

Federal prosecutors had sought nine years in federal prison for Johnatakis, saying he "came equipped to organize rioters by strapping a megaphone onto his back, and he led the charge up the Southwest stairs of the U.S. Capitol" and "coordinated a violent assault on a line of police officers defending the U.S. Capitol."

Johnatakis participated in the assault himself, prosecutors said, with video showing that he "used a metal barricade to attack officers head on and grabbed one officer to prevent him from defending himself against other attacking rioters — contributing to that officer’s physical injury."

Johnatakis had posted before the attack that he was traveling to Washington to "CHANGE the course of HISTORY #StopTheSteal" and that "What the British did to DC will be nothing..."

After yelling into his megaphone that then-Vice President Mike Pence was a "traitor to this nation," Johnatakis chased officers up the stairs and organized a push on law enforcement.

More than 1,350 people have been charged in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol, and more than 950 defendants have been convicted. Around 500 have been sentenced to periods of incarceration ranging from just a few days to 22 years in federal prison, for a Proud Boy leader convicted of seditious conspiracy.

'Sovereign citizen' Jan. 6 rioter gets seven years for leading mob assault on officers

Taylor James Johnatakis represented himself at trial and would not concede that he was subject to the laws of the United States.

www.nbcnews.com

i guess that sovereign citizen bullshit he read off 4chan was just a bunch of gobbledygook. law and order bitch. enjoy your time in prison.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

‘Are you serious?’: Trump Jan. 6 trial judge shreds rioter who stormed Capitol with mom, rejects ‘hostage’ label at sentencing​

Trump Jan. 6 judge shreds rioter who stormed Capitol with mom, rejects 'hostage' label

At a sentencing hearing, Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected the idea that Jan. 6 defendants are "hostages" as Donald Trump and the accused and convicted alike, claim.

lawandcrime.com

this domestic terrorist should have received more than 9 months in prison.

 

[curryjunkie]

‘Are you serious?’: Trump Jan. 6 trial judge shreds rioter who stormed Capitol with mom, rejects ‘hostage’ label at sentencing​

Trump Jan. 6 judge shreds rioter who stormed Capitol with mom, rejects 'hostage' label

At a sentencing hearing, Judge Tanya Chutkan rejected the idea that Jan. 6 defendants are "hostages" as Donald Trump and the accused and convicted alike, claim.

lawandcrime.com

this domestic terrorist should have received more than 9 months in prison.

Interesting tactic, have your lawyer criticise the judge during sentencing..

 

[Strychnine]

Interesting tactic, have your lawyer criticise the judge during sentencing..

 

[idrankyourbeer]

A Capitol rioter was sentenced to 5 months in prison after cross-checking police with a lacrosse stick on January 6
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• A judge said David Blair came to the Capitol "primed for a fight" on January 6, 2021.
• Prosecutors accused Blair of shoving police with a lacrosse stick affixed with the Confederate flag.
• Blair pleaded guilty in March to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from the Capitol siege.

Carrying a Confederate battle flag attached to a lacrosse stick, David Blair arrived on the Capitol grounds late in the afternoon of January 6, 2021, setting him apart from hundreds of other charged rioters who reached the building earlier in the day.

As a federal judge put it Wednesday, "Yours is a little different case." But Blair came "primed for a fight," Judge Christopher Cooper said.

Blair was sentenced Wednesday to 5 months in prison on a disorderly conduct charge stemming from January 6, when he cross-checked a police officer with his lacrosse stick as law enforcement attempted to clear a lawn outside the Capitol.

Handing down the sentence, Cooper credited Blair for almost immediately expressing remorse for his actions and later pleading guilty to the disorderly conduct charge. But, rejecting Blair's request for a non-prison sentence, Cooper said he "squared off" and "mouthed off" at police officers attempting to protect the Capitol and "cross-checked a guy."

Federal prosecutors recommended that Blair receive an 8-month prison sentence, arguing that he not only pushed an officer with his lacrosse stick but encouraged other rioters to refuse law enforcement's orders to leave the lawn outside the Capitol. During Wednesday's sentencing hearing, assistant US attorney Michael Liebman said the Confederate flag — combined with a skull-themed gator Blair wore over his face — made clear that he was "looking for a fight" on January 6.

In his backpack, Liebman said, was a 4-inch serrated knife and a roll of duct tape. And during a search of his home, the FBI found an AR-15 rifle that Blair had purchased legally in May 2020.

Liebman played police body-cam footage showing an officer contact Blair with a baton as he encourages other rioters not to clear the lawn, yelling, "Quit backing up, quit being scared."

Blair then turned around and cross-checked the officer in the upper chest area, prompting officers to strike him with their batons, causing injuries to his head and body that required hospitalization.

Arguing for a lighter sentence, Blair's defense lawyer argued that Cooper should not consider the lacrosse stick a dangerous weapon. That contention drew an almost incredulous response from Cooper.

"You're telling me a lacrosse stick can't cause serious bodily injury?" the judge asked. "Somebody whacks you over the head with it, they can't seriously injure you?"

Still, the judge acknowledged that the police officer was not injured.

"It is clear to me a lacrosse stick is capable of causing serious bodily injury," Cooper said. "That said, it was not the most serious assault in the world."

Cooper ordered Blair to serve 18 months of probation following his prison sentence.

A Capitol rioter was sentenced to 5 months in prison after cross-checking police with a lacrosse stick on January 6

A federal prosecutor said David Blair came to the Capitol "looking for a fight" with a Confederate battle flag and skull-themed neck gator.

uk.movies.yahoo.com

a lacrosse stick. the maga trash really are bringing everything to their insurrections.

 

[Andy Capp]

A Capitol rioter was sentenced to 5 months in prison after cross-checking police with a lacrosse stick on January 6​

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• A judge said David Blair came to the Capitol "primed for a fight" on January 6, 2021.
• Prosecutors accused Blair of shoving police with a lacrosse stick affixed with the Confederate flag.
• Blair pleaded guilty in March to a disorderly conduct charge stemming from the Capitol siege.

Carrying a Confederate battle flag attached to a lacrosse stick, David Blair arrived on the Capitol grounds late in the afternoon of January 6, 2021, setting him apart from hundreds of other charged rioters who reached the building earlier in the day.

As a federal judge put it Wednesday, "Yours is a little different case." But Blair came "primed for a fight," Judge Christopher Cooper said.

Blair was sentenced Wednesday to 5 months in prison on a disorderly conduct charge stemming from January 6, when he cross-checked a police officer with his lacrosse stick as law enforcement attempted to clear a lawn outside the Capitol.

Handing down the sentence, Cooper credited Blair for almost immediately expressing remorse for his actions and later pleading guilty to the disorderly conduct charge. But, rejecting Blair's request for a non-prison sentence, Cooper said he "squared off" and "mouthed off" at police officers attempting to protect the Capitol and "cross-checked a guy."

Federal prosecutors recommended that Blair receive an 8-month prison sentence, arguing that he not only pushed an officer with his lacrosse stick but encouraged other rioters to refuse law enforcement's orders to leave the lawn outside the Capitol. During Wednesday's sentencing hearing, assistant US attorney Michael Liebman said the Confederate flag — combined with a skull-themed gator Blair wore over his face — made clear that he was "looking for a fight" on January 6.

In his backpack, Liebman said, was a 4-inch serrated knife and a roll of duct tape. And during a search of his home, the FBI found an AR-15 rifle that Blair had purchased legally in May 2020.

Liebman played police body-cam footage showing an officer contact Blair with a baton as he encourages other rioters not to clear the lawn, yelling, "Quit backing up, quit being scared."

Blair then turned around and cross-checked the officer in the upper chest area, prompting officers to strike him with their batons, causing injuries to his head and body that required hospitalization.

Arguing for a lighter sentence, Blair's defense lawyer argued that Cooper should not consider the lacrosse stick a dangerous weapon. That contention drew an almost incredulous response from Cooper.

"You're telling me a lacrosse stick can't cause serious bodily injury?" the judge asked. "Somebody whacks you over the head with it, they can't seriously injure you?"

Still, the judge acknowledged that the police officer was not injured.

"It is clear to me a lacrosse stick is capable of causing serious bodily injury," Cooper said. "That said, it was not the most serious assault in the world."

Cooper ordered Blair to serve 18 months of probation following his prison sentence.

A Capitol rioter was sentenced to 5 months in prison after cross-checking police with a lacrosse stick on January 6

A federal prosecutor said David Blair came to the Capitol "looking for a fight" with a Confederate battle flag and skull-themed neck gator.

uk.movies.yahoo.com

a lacrosse stick. the maga trash really are bringing everything to their insurrections.

I think he should have argued for leniency on the fact the only one injured at all in the clash is the perp--and he got put in the hospital with a head injury, among others. Now, I wouldn't argue he didn't deserve it, but with the difference in outcomes between him and the officers it seems to me he was punished to a certain degree right then and there.

Not saying he should get leniency, mind you, but it's a far better argument than the stick not being a dangerous weapon in my view.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

Proud Boys group leader fucks around and finds out. Sentenced to over 5 years in prison just to own the libs.​

WASHINGTON (AP) — A far-right extremist group leader was sentenced on Friday to more than five years in prison for repeatedly assaulting police officers with makeshift weapons during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol over three years ago.

Scott Miller, who helped lead a Proud Boys chapter for Maryland and Washington, D.C., coordinated with other group members before they invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to federal prosecutors. Miller, 33, attacked police seven different times with weapons, including a bottle, a stick and poles.

Notes found on Miller’s cellphone indicate that his white supremacist ideology and antisemitic views influenced his decision to storm the Capitol, a prosecutor wrote in a court filing. He expressed his intent to “fight” in order to protect “White America,” the filing says.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing disgraced former President Molestini Cheetolini's election interference case in Washington, said an attack like the Jan. 6 insurrection “can happen again” in the U.S.

“Extremism is alive and well in this country,” she said before sentencing Miller to five years and six months behind bars.

Miller apologized for assaulting police at the Capitol. He acknowledged that he embraced extremist ideologies before the Capitol riot, but told the judge that he is “reforming” himself.

“I am not a violent or hateful person despite some of the things you’ve seen,” he told Chutkan.

Investigators found Nazi paraphernalia and memes promoting racially motivated violence when they searched Miller’s Millersville, Maryland, home and his phone. A photo found on Miller’s phone shows him posing and smiling next to a news story describing the drowning of migrants, prosecutors said.

Authorities also found a shirt that Miller wore for Halloween to dress up as Derek Chauvin, the white Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, a Black man, in the summer of 2020. Miller posed for a photo wearing the costume while kneeling on the floor. Chauvin pressed a knee on Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes.


Chutkan said the extent of Miller’s violent ideology and the racist, antisemitic material stored on his phone left her questioning whether Miller is genuinely remorseful or capable of such a rapid transformation.

“They don’t just arrive there by some random algorithm,” said the judge, who read aloud some of the most hateful messages.

Chutkan has been one of the toughest punishers of Jan. 6 defendants. Miller’s prison sentence is the longest that she has handed down so far in 45 cases, according to an Associated Press review of court records.

Prosecutors recommended a prison sentence of five years and 11 months for Miller, who was arrested in December 2022. He pleaded guilty in January to assaulting a police officer with a dangerous weapon.

“Miller’s participation in the riot – a riot that disrupted the peaceful transfer of power – was particularly egregious, given his multiple and repeated violent attacks on police officers and his coordination and planning with other members of the Proud Boys,” Justice Department prosecutor Kaitlin Klamann wrote.


In 2019, Miller was arrested on charges of disrupting a “Drag Queen Story Time” for children at a library in his Maryland hometown, The Baltimore Sun reported. Miller was accused of shouting at a performer and shoving a library board member who tried to intervene.

“While these charges were ultimately dropped, Miller’s actions on this occasion serve as further proof that Miller is willing to use violence to enforce his personal beliefs,” Klamann wrote.

In the days leading up to the Jan. 6 riot, Miller and other Proud Boys members discussed their plans for that day and the possibility of violence, prosecutors said. Miller arrived at the Capitol after the riot erupted, wearing gloves with plastic knuckles, ski goggles and a military-style backpack.

He joined the mob attacking police officers guarding a tunnel leading to an entrance on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace, where some of the most brutal violence occurred. Picking up a pole, he charged at police and repeatedly struck an officer with it.

After throwing several objects at police, Miller picked up another pole and struck at least two officers several times. He also grabbed a shield from police officers and handed it to other rioters in the crowd outside the Capitol.

Miller is ashamed of his conduct on Jan. 6 and cut ties with the Proud Boys about a month after the riot, defense attorney Elizabeth Mullin said in a court filing.

“He disavows the group and the principles it stands for,” she wrote.

Mullin said there is no evidence that Miller planned to attack police.

“Regrettably, like so many others there that day, he became carried away by the frenzy of the crowd, which had been whipped into a fervor by a fraudy orange rapist and the other rally speakers,” she wrote.

Proud Boys group leader sentenced to over 5 years in prison for attacking police during Capitol riot

A former Proud Boys chapter leader has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for repeatedly assaulting police officers with makeshift weapons during a mob’s attack on the U.S.

apnews.com

"i'm not a violent or hateful person. I'm just an ignorant fuck who likes to beat up cops and overthrow my government."

From Proud Boy to Pride Boy, Scott Miller became unglued,
For the Dildo of Consequences rarely arrives lubed.

 

[Whippy McGee]

This sure does hurt the narrative.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

This sure does hurt the narrative.

this is it!

 

[idrankyourbeer]

4 Inland men sentenced to prison for roles in Jan. 6 Capitol riot​

On Friday, April 19, Four Inland Empire residents who traveled together to Washington, D.C. to attend disgraced former President Molestini Cheetolini’s Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally and later crossed police lines to ascend the West Terrace of the Capitol carrying bear spray were sentenced to federal prison just to own the libs.

Erik Scott Warner, 48, of Menifee, was sentenced to 2 years, 3 months; Felipe Antonio Martinez, 50, of Lake Elsinore, was sentenced to 1 year, 9 months; Derek Kinnison, 42, of Lake Elsinore, was sentenced to 2 years, 9 months; and Ronald Mele, 54, of Temecula, was sentenced to 2 years, 9 months.

Additionally, U.S. District Court Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered each to pay $2,000 restitution and complete 36 months of supervised release for their roles in disrupting Congress as it certified Joe Biden’s electoral victory in the 2020 presidential election. All four were taken into custody.

The men, who prosecutors say were linked to the Three Percenters militia movement, all were convicted of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and obstruction of an official proceeding, both felonies, after a 17-day jury trial. Warner and Kinnison were also convicted of tampering with documents or records, a felony. And all four were found guilty of misdemeanor offenses of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds.

Only Warner was accused of entering the Capitol building.

The Three Percenters has been described as an anti-government, extremist movement. Members compare themselves to American patriots who opposed the British during the revolution.

Nicolai Cocis, the attorney for Kinnison, said in an interview Friday that the government had sought a sentence of 8 years and a $48,000 fine for his client.

“The judge recognized that not every individual that was at the Capitol on January the 6th is bad and that he sees some potential and that he determined that Kinnison has rehabilitated himself,” Cocis said. “The judge agreed with the defense that the sentence the government was asking for was a harsh sentence and inappropriate given their involvement.”

He added that all four men accepted responsibility for their actions and did not minimize their conduct.

“None of them were proud of their behavior,” Cocis said.

The men were charged in the same indictment as former La Habra Police Chief Alan Hostetter, who was sentenced in December 2023 to 11 years in prison. Hostetter used a bullhorn to cheer on the members of the crowd who were fighting to break through the police line at the Capitol. He was convicted of conspiracy, obstructing an official proceeding and unlawful entry on a restricted building or grounds.

On Jan. 6, the men went to the Ellipse for the rally and afterward headed toward the Capitol. As they approached the Capitol at approximately 2 p.m., federal officials said, Kinnison announced, “This is the storm of the Capitol.” Warner then joined protesters climbing the northwest stairs to the Upper West Terrace, where police had been defending moments earlier.

At the same time, Martinez, Kinnison, and Mele advanced on a police line. Mele called out for the crowd to “Push! Push! Push!” as the officers on the lawn were surrounded, a Department of Justice news release said.

Warner then entered the Capitol through a smashed window. When Martinez, Kinnison, and Mele heard by phone that Warner had entered the Capitol, they ascended to the Upper West Terrace to join him, the indictment said.

As they climbed the stairs, Mele shot a selfie-style video, in which he proclaims, “Storm the Capitol!” the release said.

The others then surged on the Capitol wearing tactical gear and carrying cans of bear spray, the release said.

More than 1,387 people have been charged with crimes related to the Capitol breach, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

4 Inland men sentenced to prison for roles in Jan. 6 Capitol riot

The sentences ranged from 1 year, 9 months, to 2 years, 9 months. ‘None … were proud of their behavior,’ the attorney for a defendant said.

www.pressenterprise.com

the filthy magats who riot together go to a filthy prison together. suck on that libtards.

 

[PEB]

By Trump farting in court he broke the gag order.

 

[idrankyourbeer]

By Trump farting in court he broke the gag order.

he probably made everybody else around him gag

 

[Strychnine]

Sorry, Grandma... The law applies to YOU too.

 

[curryjunkie]

Proud Boys group leader fucks around and finds out. Sentenced to over 5 years in prison just to own the libs.​

WASHINGTON (AP) — A far-right extremist group leader was sentenced on Friday to more than five years in prison for repeatedly assaulting police officers with makeshift weapons during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol over three years ago.

Scott Miller, who helped lead a Proud Boys chapter for Maryland and Washington, D.C., coordinated with other group members before they invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to federal prosecutors. Miller, 33, attacked police seven different times with weapons, including a bottle, a stick and poles.

Notes found on Miller’s cellphone indicate that his white supremacist ideology and antisemitic views influenced his decision to storm the Capitol, a prosecutor wrote in a court filing. He expressed his intent to “fight” in order to protect “White America,” the filing says.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing disgraced former President Molestini Cheetolini's election interference case in Washington, said an attack like the Jan. 6 insurrection “can happen again” in the U.S.

“Extremism is alive and well in this country,” she said before sentencing Miller to five years and six months behind bars.

Miller apologized for assaulting police at the Capitol. He acknowledged that he embraced extremist ideologies before the Capitol riot, but told the judge that he is “reforming” himself.

“I am not a violent or hateful person despite some of the things you’ve seen,” he told Chutkan.

Investigators found Nazi paraphernalia and memes promoting racially motivated violence when they searched Miller’s Millersville, Maryland, home and his phone. A photo found on Miller’s phone shows him posing and smiling next to a news story describing the drowning of migrants, prosecutors said.

Authorities also found a shirt that Miller wore for Halloween to dress up as Derek Chauvin, the white Minneapolis police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd, a Black man, in the summer of 2020. Miller posed for a photo wearing the costume while kneeling on the floor. Chauvin pressed a knee on Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes.


Chutkan said the extent of Miller’s violent ideology and the racist, antisemitic material stored on his phone left her questioning whether Miller is genuinely remorseful or capable of such a rapid transformation.

“They don’t just arrive there by some random algorithm,” said the judge, who read aloud some of the most hateful messages.

Chutkan has been one of the toughest punishers of Jan. 6 defendants. Miller’s prison sentence is the longest that she has handed down so far in 45 cases, according to an Associated Press review of court records.

Prosecutors recommended a prison sentence of five years and 11 months for Miller, who was arrested in December 2022. He pleaded guilty in January to assaulting a police officer with a dangerous weapon.

“Miller’s participation in the riot – a riot that disrupted the peaceful transfer of power – was particularly egregious, given his multiple and repeated violent attacks on police officers and his coordination and planning with other members of the Proud Boys,” Justice Department prosecutor Kaitlin Klamann wrote.


In 2019, Miller was arrested on charges of disrupting a “Drag Queen Story Time” for children at a library in his Maryland hometown, The Baltimore Sun reported. Miller was accused of shouting at a performer and shoving a library board member who tried to intervene.

“While these charges were ultimately dropped, Miller’s actions on this occasion serve as further proof that Miller is willing to use violence to enforce his personal beliefs,” Klamann wrote.

In the days leading up to the Jan. 6 riot, Miller and other Proud Boys members discussed their plans for that day and the possibility of violence, prosecutors said. Miller arrived at the Capitol after the riot erupted, wearing gloves with plastic knuckles, ski goggles and a military-style backpack.

He joined the mob attacking police officers guarding a tunnel leading to an entrance on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace, where some of the most brutal violence occurred. Picking up a pole, he charged at police and repeatedly struck an officer with it.

After throwing several objects at police, Miller picked up another pole and struck at least two officers several times. He also grabbed a shield from police officers and handed it to other rioters in the crowd outside the Capitol.

Miller is ashamed of his conduct on Jan. 6 and cut ties with the Proud Boys about a month after the riot, defense attorney Elizabeth Mullin said in a court filing.

“He disavows the group and the principles it stands for,” she wrote.

Mullin said there is no evidence that Miller planned to attack police.

“Regrettably, like so many others there that day, he became carried away by the frenzy of the crowd, which had been whipped into a fervor by a fraudy orange rapist and the other rally speakers,” she wrote.

Proud Boys group leader sentenced to over 5 years in prison for attacking police during Capitol riot

A former Proud Boys chapter leader has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for repeatedly assaulting police officers with makeshift weapons during a mob’s attack on the U.S.

apnews.com

"i'm not a violent or hateful person. I'm just an ignorant fuck who likes to beat up cops and overthrow my government."

From Proud Boy to Pride Boy, Scott Miller became unglued,
For the Dildo of Consequences rarely arrives lubed.

whats with these chuds and backpacks?

 

[idrankyourbeer]

whats with these chuds and backpacks?

gotta pack their touristy stuff with them.