Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs sentenced to 17 years in January 6 case | CNN Politics
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A leader of the Proud Boys who led the far-right organization’s infamous march to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years in prison – among the longest sentence handed down yet for a convicted rioter.

A leader of the Proud Boys who led the far-right organization’s infamous march to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years in prison – among the longest sentence handed down yet for a convicted rioter.

Joe Biggs was convicted by a Washington, DC jury of several charges including seditious conspiracy for attempting to forcibly prevent the peaceful transfer of power from then-President Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election.

The government wanted Biggs to serve 33 years in federal prison. That’s 15 years longer than the longest sentence in a Jan. 6 case to date: the 18-year sentence that went to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, also convicted of seditious conspiracy, after prosecutors sought 25 years in federal prison.

  • @ryrybang@lemmy.world
    229•9 months ago

    This guy used violence and terrorism because he didn’t want my vote to count simply because he didn’t like the way I voted. Fuck this asshole. I hope he commits more felonies in prison and gets more time tacked on. 17 years isn’t enough for this fascist asshole.

    • Hyperreality
      64•9 months ago

      He has a young daughter. Poor daughter having such a shit father.

      Honestly, she’s probably better off without this failure of a human being in her life.

    • Dark ArcEnglish
      49•9 months ago

      I agree with the rage, but I personally – snowball in hell it may be – hope he and the others that participated in this come to realize why what they did is wrong and come to eventually speak against it.

      • athos77
        39•9 months ago

        He claims, " I’m not a terrorist, I don’t have hate in my heart.". Unfortunately, I don’t believe him, and I don’t think the judge did either.

        • Dark ArcEnglish
          7•9 months ago

          I’m skeptical as well, but I believe in redemption

        • @nilloc@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          5•9 months ago

          He either has hate, or he’s happy to exploit the hate of his followers for personal gain.

          Either way he is in fact, a terrorist.

      • geogle
        5•9 months ago

        That would just be further “proof” of the deep state they think runs the country

    • MxM111
      6•9 months ago

      It’s not do that he thought that he did not like your vote, but because he thought your vote does not matter. A tiny but important difference, I think.