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Proud Boy Ethan Nordean and his toady Dominic Pezzola have received decades long sentences for seditious conspiracy and religious charges.

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Two members of the far-right Proud Boys militia group who took part in the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol with the intention of keeping Donald Trump in the White House were sentenced to lengthy prison terms on Friday.

Ethan Nordean, described by prosecutors as a leader of the extremist group, received an 18-year sentence for crimes that included seditious conspiracy, committed when thousands of Trump supporters overran the Capitol building.


Dominic Pezzola, who attacked a police officer and was filmed using the officer’s shield to smash a window, got 10 years from the federal judge Timothy Kelly in Washington DC, following his conviction in May for assault and obstructing an official proceeding.

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Pezzola told the court he was “a changed and humbled man”, his “sorrow and regret … unimaginable”.

After Kelly left the courtroom and as US marshals led him away, Pezzola smiled, raised his hand and shouted: “Trump won,” according to a report from local news station WUSA.

Judge Kelly might want a contempt citation against Pezzola, say about 18 months, served consecutively.

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On Thursday, Judge Kelly sentenced the former Proud Boys organizer Joseph Biggs, a former US army captain, to 17 years behind bars, and handed a 15-year sentence to Zachary Rehl, another leader.

Like Nordean, both were convicted of seditious conspiracy, a civil war-era offense that is rarely brought. The sentences were the second- and third-longest stemming from the attack.

Two other members of the group, including its former leader Enrique Tarrio, are scheduled to be sentenced next week, with prosecutors calling for a 33-year sentence for Tarrio.

Great, now pry their guns from their cold, stiff fingers.