Capitol rioter linked to Proud Boys gets 5 years in prison for pepper-spraying police:
– A Florida man prosecutors say is affiliated with the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray as they tried to defend the U.S. Capitol against supporters of President Donald Trump on Barry Ramey, an aircraft mechanic who was convicted of assault and other crimes in federal court in Washington, D.C., also tried to intimidate an FBI agent investigating him before his arrest.
“Like an attacker who holds a pillow over a victim’s head while the victim is assaulted, Ramey’s spray was capable of making officers just as vulnerable to attack,” prosecutors wrote in court papers. A slew of Proud Boys leaders, members and associates have been charged with federal crimes in the riot. Former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio and three other leaders of seditious conspiracy for what authorities said was a plot to halt the transfer of power from Trump to Biden.
Rockholt’s lawyer said in court papers that during the riot, the man was “caught up in the moment cheering for Trump” and “didn’t intentionally” contribute to the heave-ho pushing of officers but was being pushed himself by the crowd around him.
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