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Ex-Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years for role in US Capitol attack

www.reuters.com Ex-Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years for role in US Capitol attack

A former chairman of the right-wing Proud Boys group was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump trying to overturn the former president's election defeat.

News @lemmy.world Ex-Proud Boys leader sentenced to 22 years for role in US Capitol attack

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It's good that he's going away for 22 years. However, the sentencing guidelines called for between 324 to 405 months (27-33 years) so by the Judge's own calculations this is a miscarriage of justice and yet another right wing domestic terrorist is being handled with kid gloves. Fucking disgraceful.

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- 27 year minimum sentences are already insanity. If the justice system is supposed to be corrective rather than vengeful, there's nothing to be gained from these overly long sentences. No one's willingness to commit a crime is going to change with a 22 year sentence vs. a 33 year sentence, and the offender is no more likely to reform in years 23-33 than they were in years 12-22.
  
  22 years is A LONG TIME. So long that they're almost certainly going to have fully adapted to prison life as "normal" long before it ends, and long enough that no one would ever consider it a reasonable cost for potential reward. Someone getting a two-decade sentence was entirely counting on not getting caught/charged.
  
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  22 years ago was 2001. So the equivalent time from 9/11 to now in prison.
  
  Doesn't seem like enough to me. I mean I went from 30 something to 50 something, I still have life in front of me.
  
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  This would carry more weight if you cited sources for your statements. ;)
  
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  It’s both corrective, and preventative. Animals like that piece of shit shouldn’t be trusted to walk amongst the public.
  
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- Should've been maximum sentence.
  
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- If the reduced sentence allowed a swifter sentence, it may be a good thing overall, as this can now be used as precedent.
  
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  You can try to spin it as a "good thing" that the Trump appointed judge failed to deliver a sentence in accordance with the guidelines all you want. The fact of the matter remains Tarrio got off far too easy and by at least five years.
  
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He asked U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, "please show me mercy" and that he "not take my 40s from me."

Try 40s and 50s, and some your 60s, you traitor scumbag

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LOLOLOL. This is the "find out" stage for all these wanna-be tough guy hyperpatriots.

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- Nothing patriotic about these fucking incels.
  
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I really wish news articles on guys like this would not use photos of them where they are trying to look all "hard" in their stupid Meal Team Six gear, smoking a cigarette and/or wearing the glasses and backwards hat, and instead would use pictures where they look a bit more ridiculous.

Like when Henry was arrested. Or this one:

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Why ex? He is still very much involved in the ideology of it and hasn't changed. Just because he is in prison doesn't make him an ex proud boy does it?

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- Ex Proud Boys leader. He is no longer the leader.
  
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  Ah gotcha. That makes more sense. Just want to have the correct facts.
  
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  sooo.
  
  Proud Boys' ex-leader
  
  grammar hard
  
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Good. Let’s see what his daddy Trump gets. And good luck trying to get a pardon lol

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- Vote.
  
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This is the best summary I could come up with:

WASHINGTON, Sept 5 (Reuters) - A former chairman of the right-wing Proud Boys group was sentenced on Tuesday to 22 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump trying to overturn the former president's election defeat.

Enrique Tarrio was convicted of charges, including seditious conspiracy, for his role in planning the storming of the Capitol, when thousands of supporters of the Republican then-U.S. president violently tried to stop Congress from certifying the results of an election that Trump falsely claimed had widespread fraud.

Oath Keepers militia founder Stewart Rhodes in May was also sentenced to 18 years.

Nordean and Rhodes had previously been tied for the longest sentence handed down in the case.

More than 1,100 people have been arrested on charges related to the Capitol assault, and of those at least 630 have pleaded guilty and at least 110 have been convicted at trial.

Special Counsel Jack Smith, who was tapped to investigate broader efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has charged Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, for trying to keep himself in power.

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Good, let them all rot.

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22 years is nothing to sneeze at, but I see Danny Masterson got 30 years to life. Yes, rape is obviously a terrible crime. But if this d-bag was actually successful in his terrorism, he would have negatively impacted MILLIONS of Americans, possibly causing all kinds of death and misery.

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Best username ever

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- Hack the planet.
  
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How do we even know that this guy isn’t antifa in disguise?

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- They are everywhere...
  
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