These fanatics are nothing if not shameless. This one was bawling in court during his sentencing but after the judge had left the stand, he shouted for the cameras, "Trump won!"
"He started drinking very heavily and inundated himself with Fox News day and night” - Pezzola’s wife testified. I bet he did.
Send them all to the psychiatric ward for the criminally insane.
Source: WUSA
WASHINGTON — The Marine Corps veteran and Proud Boy who used a stolen police riot shield to cause the first breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.
Dominic Pezzola, a 45-year-old flooring contractor from Rochester, New York, was convicted in May alongside four other members of the Proud Boys following a lenghty jury trial. Although jurors acquitted him of joining his co-defendants’ seditious conspiracy, they convicted him on multiple other counts, including conspiring against members of Congress or law enforcement, destruction of government property and assaulting and robbing U.S. Capitol Police Officer Marc Ode of his riot shield.
Prosecutors described Pezzola as the "literal poster boy" for the Proud Boys' conspiracy. Footage of him using Ode's shield to smash in a window on the Capitol's Senate Wing — causing the first breach of the building through which hundreds of other rioters poured through — became one of the earliest and most memorable images of the riot.
His plea for mercy was, shall we say, not the most sincere.
Pezzola spoke briefly before Kelly handed down his sentence Friday, tearfully asking for mercy and saying he was done with politics.
"Your honor, I stand before you as a changed and humbled man," Pezzola said. "But, nonetheless as a man who has always taken responsibility for his actions... I have never denied what I did on J6."
Minutes later, after hearing his sentence — and once Kelly had left the bench — a smiling Pezzola raised his hand as he was led out of court by U.S. Marshals and shouted, "Trump won!"
Crocodile tears, indeed.
