A retired Air Force officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol dressed in combat gear and carried zip-tie handcuffs into the Senate gallery was sentenced to two years in prison.
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Prosecutors had recommended a sentence of five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release.The judge said Brock expressed "very troubling" and violent rhetoric before the Jan. 6 riot. The judge read aloud several of Brock’s social media postings calling it "really pretty astounding" that a former high-ranking military officer expressed those words.Larry Brock, a 55-year-old Air Force veteran, was convicted on six charges, including one felony.
"When we get to the bottom of this conspiracy we need to execute the traitors that are trying to steal the election, and that includes the leaders of the media and social media aiding and abetting the coup plotters," Brock wrote in a Nov. 9. 2020, post on Facebook. "Had the Senate Gallery not been emptied minutes before, Brock could have come face-to-face with the politicians he had fantasized about seizing and interrogating,"Bates convicted Brock of all six counts in his indictment, including obstruction of an official proceeding, the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory, The obstruction charge is a felony; the other five counts are misdemeanors.
"This was consistent with Brock’s stated overall mission on January 6, which was intelligence gathering to stop the certification and the transfer of power," prosecutors wrote.
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