A man who attacked police officers defending the Capitol with their own chemical spray on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to more than 14 years in prison, the longest sentence yet for anyone convicted of participating in the violent pro-Trump riot.
“You were at the front of the line,” Judge Amit P. Mehta said in sentencing Peter Schwartz, 49, of Uniontown, Pa., to 170 months behind bars. “You were a soldier against democracy.”
“I couldn’t stop to wipe it down because of the chaos,” he recalled. In order to “differentiate the mob from the officers,” Gonnell said he had to take off his protective helmet, and that other officers were similarly made vulnerable and “had to retreat into the Capitol.” Mehta responded that it was Schwartz who was bolstering that false narrative by giving interviews where he called the trial a “a sham, in the face of irrefutable video evidence.”
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