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Proud Boys member receives 10-year prison sentence for US Capitol attack – as it happened

Proud Boys Dominic Pezzola Ethan Nordean Capitol United States Joseph Biggs Donald Trump Zachary Rehl Joe Biden Nick Smith
Dominic Pezzola, center with police shield, are confronted by police in the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
Dominic Pezzola, center with police shield, are confronted by police in the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

Closing summary

A federal judge ordered Proud Boys militia group member Dominic Pezzola to spend 10 years in prison for his violent actions on January 6, a sentence less than the 20-year term prosecutors requested. Ethan Nordean, a leader in the far-right group, is also scheduled to receive his sentence later today, and prosecutors have asked that he be jailed for 27 years following his conviction on seditious conspiracy and other charges.

Here’s what else happened today:

  • Georgia Republicans may decide to go after Fani Willis, the Democratic district attorney in the Atlanta area who last week indicted Donald Trump and 18 others on election subversion charges.

  • An effort by Trump foes to bar him from running from president because of his involvement in the January 6 insurrection was rejected by a federal judge.

  • What does Ron DeSantis fear? A 15-year-old politics junky, apparently.

  • House Republicans will make security camera footage recorded on January 6 available to reporters, non-profit organizations, defendants in criminal cases and those injured in the attack. House speaker Kevin McCarthy earlier in the year gave conservative commentator Tucker Carlson access to the video, who used it to downplay the severity of the insurrection.

  • Dylan Quattrucci told police to “go hang yourself” on January 6. Now he works for the Trump campaign in New Hampshire, according to a report.

NBC News reports that 22-year-old January 6 defendant Jord Meacham has died:

Meacham was arrested recently, and facing relatively minor charges that usually have not resulted in jail time, NBC reports:

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