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.

  • Polar@lemmy.ca
    1021·
    1 year ago

    Imagine throwing away your life because a different party is rightfully elected. Your wife is gone. She’s not staying around, because in 17 years you will both be different people. Your kid is gone. You will never know your kid, even when you get out.

    It’s stupid, because presidents promise so much, but do so little. You threw away your life for pretty much nothing.

    Fucking idiots lol.

    • Custoslibera@lemmy.world
      55·
      1 year ago

      They don’t think they did anything wrong.

      Don’t make the mistake of thinking people like this can be reasoned with. They can not.

      We are better off executing people like this. Prison for life is a close second.

      Keeping them alive only emboldens others to follow in their footsteps until they succeed.

      No I am not ‘stooping to their level’ in suggesting that traitors are executed.

      There’s a reason treason carries the death penalty.