Kentucky man gets record-setting 14 year sentence for role in Capitol attack

Peter Schwartz's prison sentence is the longest so far among hundreds of cases stemming from the January 6 insurrection

A Kentucky man with a long criminal record has been sentenced to a record-setting 14 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray and a chair as he stormed the US Capitol with his wife.

Peter Schwartz's prison sentence is the longest so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases. The judge who sentenced Schwartz on Friday also handed down the previous longest sentence - 10 years - to a retired New York police department officer who assaulted a police officer outside the Capitol on 6 January.