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Saturday, November 23
Man sentenced to almost 4 years in prison for assault on Capitol
Devlyn Thompson was sentenced this Monday to 3 years and 8 months in prison for having attacked Police officers during the assault on the United States Capitol by followers of former President Donald Trump (2017 – 2021), in which five people died.
The man was sentenced to 46 months in prison after he pleaded guilty on August 6 to assaulting, resisting and obstructing to Police officers while using a dangerous weapon, the Department of Justice (DOJ) reported in a statement.
Federal Judge Royce C. Lambert, of the Court of the District of Columbia, where Washington DC is located, also ordered the subject to pay 2, 000 dollars in compensation.
The sentence exceeds the one imposed last November on Scott Fairlamb, from New Jersey, who was the first person sentenced for assaulting a police officer during the assault on the Capitol.
Fairlamb was sentenced to 3 years and 5 months in prison, the highest sentence ordered up to that moment against one of the defendants for that event.
“The violence that occurred that day was such a blatant disregard for government institutions,” said Lambert, quoted by CNN.
Thompson, from Seattle (Washington state), was part of a crowd that came to the Capitol and pushed and assaulted members of the Metropolitan Police and the Capitol, according to court documents.
In the middle of the assault, which took place while conducting a joint session of Congress for val idar the results of the November elections 2020, in which incumbent President Joe Biden prevailed, helped stripping the riot shields from the officers who were protecting the legislative complex. Pepper spray can that an officer was carrying in his hand and thus prevent him from spraying the assailants, he added the information.
According to the DOJ, since last January 6, more than 700 people in almost all 50 states of the country for this fact, including 220 accused of assaulting or obstructing the forces of order.
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