Rioter who encountered senator gets over 4 years in prison
Source: AP
A Maryland man affiliated with the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Monday to more than four years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol, where authorities say he encountered Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer as his armed security detail led the New York Democrat to safety.
Joshua Pruitt, 40, was one of the few Capitol rioters to come face-to-face with a member of Congress during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by a mob of Donald Trump supporters, according to federal prosecutors.
One look at Pruitt, and the leader of Senator Schumers security detail immediately saw the threat and hustled the 70-year-old senator down a hallway, having to change their evacuation route on a dime, Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexis Loeb wrote in a court filing ahead of Monday's hearing.
U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly sentenced Pruitt to four years and seven months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release, according to Bill Miller, spokesman for the U.S. Attorneys office for the District of Columbia.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rioter-who-encountered-senator-gets-over-4-years-in-prison/ar-AA11eP4a
Was the orange guy worth four years of your life?
iluvtennis
(19,861 posts)Samrob
(4,298 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)2naSalit
(86,643 posts)To look like actual prison time.
Aristus
(66,380 posts)good names, which are now yielding tougher sentences.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,434 posts)Dave in VA
(2,037 posts)He is their "savior" and they will do anything to keep him in charge.
Very few will regret what they have done for him. Even though he could give a shit if they were to die.
musclecar6
(1,687 posts)In a perfect world, the sentence wouldve been much longer.
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)This country put a black man in prison for 50 years for stealing $50. But a white man who actually tried to disstabilize our democracy gets 4 lousy years. 🤦🏾♀️🖕🏾
calimary
(81,299 posts)orangecrush
(19,570 posts)Who won't be "rioting in the streets"
Cha
(297,275 posts)like to be!
RussBLib
(9,019 posts)Snip (from June 2022)
More than 840 people have been arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, with charges ranging from obstruction of an official proceeding to assault. But 17 months after the attempted insurrection, a significant number of rioters are still awaiting their sentencing.
Only around a quarter of those arrested185 individualshave received criminal sentences, while the rest are waiting for their trials or havent yet reached plea agreements. According to the U.S. Attorneys Office for the District of Columbia, 80 defendants were sentenced to periods of incarceration, with longer prison terms for those who engaged in violence or threats. So far, the median prison sentence for the Jan. 6 rioters is 45 days. An additional 57 rioters have been sentenced to periods of home detention, while most sentences have included fines, community service and probation for low-level offenses like illegally parading or demonstrating in the Capitol, which is a misdemeanor.
Hundreds of additional cases are expected to be adjudicated in the coming months, with a number of sentencing hearings already on the calendar this fall.
Heres a look at what happened to 14 of the most high-profile Jan. 6 rioters.
https://time.com/6133336/jan-6-capitol-riot-arrests-sentences/
PatSeg
(47,482 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)nice look. Freaking Idiot
PatSeg
(47,482 posts)Pruitt has an extensive criminal history, which prosecutors say includes 19 prior arrests and eight convictions in Maryland, Virginia, Nevada, D.C. and Georgia. Yet he was stupid enough to put himself out there storming the Capitol. How many arrests and convictions does it take before he gets a clue?
Hi Cha! How are you doing?
Cha
(297,275 posts)be attracted to DT
Doing good, Pat.. how about you & Aloha!
PatSeg
(47,482 posts)What a difference a decent president makes!
Cha
(297,275 posts)is a 180 Degrees from a Fascist Putin Puppet Fuck!
PatSeg
(47,482 posts)Clearly, Biden's time has come.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)and smearing it on the walls.
PatSeg
(47,482 posts)Some real patriots are turning over in their graves.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)"Did you poop on the floor and smear it on the walls?"
PatSeg
(47,482 posts)I honestly can't begin to imagine what kind of person would do such a thing and I've known my share of disreputable characters.
The only people I've known to smear poop on walls were under the age of one and not too many of those.
LudwigPastorius
(9,150 posts)He's going to need it for the next four and a half years.
PatSeg
(47,482 posts)Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)cultivate that same look.
I have come to automatically assume that anyone who cultivates that look is a fascist worshiper of the MAGAt king, especially when their face is frozen into a permanent snarl.
PatSeg
(47,482 posts)They wear their fascist look like a uniform. You have to wonder what do they see when they look in the mirror every day?
Evolve Dammit
(16,736 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)Emile
(22,780 posts)a nice chat with him.
newdayneeded
(1,955 posts)will ask him "so what does that hand gesture mean"
NBachers
(17,117 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)No pardon for you, Pruitt.
ShazzieB
(16,412 posts)Thank gods his security detail was so on the ball, and hurray for this miscreant being behind bars!
electric_blue68
(14,906 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)idiot going to prison...sucker!!!!!!!!
Deminpenn
(15,286 posts)on Jan 6th.
An example of the brainiacs who plan to start another civil war.
Evolve Dammit
(16,736 posts)Deminpenn
(15,286 posts)Yahoo News story.
Evolve Dammit
(16,736 posts)Deminpenn
(15,286 posts)You gotta be pretty dumb...but this guy has been arrested numerous times so not really surprising.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)not this lowball crap where future terrorists will say, what the hell, its only 4 yrs if I'm caught.
IbogaProject
(2,816 posts)Shouldn't these guys be getting 20 or 30 years of supervision?
kwolf68
(7,365 posts)Yea all signs point to that.