Proud Boys leader Ethan Nordean and member Dominic Pezzola, seen enabling the first breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6 by smashing a Capitol window, face lengthy prison terms.
, the leader of the Oath Keepers, a far-right, anti-government extremist group, who received an 18-year term for seditious conspiracy. Biggs was given the second-longest sentence. Prosecutors are asking for 33 years for Tarrio, who is scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday.
The jury convicted Nordean of seditious conspiracy but acquitted Pezzola of the same charge. Pezzola had only joined the Proud Boys two months before Jan. 6 and had little involvement in the extensive messaging between the group’s leaders before the Capitol riot. Both men were convicted of obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to prevent federal officers from doing their duties and destruction of government property over $1,000.
Four of the five defendants were acquitted of assaulting police, except Pezzola. He was also convicted of robbery for stealing a police shield. Capitol Police Officer Mark Ode testified at trial that as he was trying to help another officer who was being assaulted, Pezzola and other rioters “violently and forcefully grabbed” his shield and pulled him to the ground.
Dominic Pezzola, a member of the far-right group the Proud Boys, punches through a window on the western front of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In an interview after his conviction, Pezzola called the trial “a complete sham.” He falsely claimed prosecutors used previously unseen videos during their closing arguments and claimed that Jan. 6 was “a setup … with feds and informants and antifa.”Nordean was an enthusiastic, longtime member of the Proud Boys who rose to prominence in far-right circles in 2018 after video of him punching protesters in Portland, Ore., circulated online.
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