US Capitol attack: militia member gets longest prison sentence yet
by Guardian staff and agencies from US news | The Guardian on (#621X7)
Man with ties to Three Percenters, who said he planned to violently drag Pelosi from building, sentenced to seven years
An associate of the far-right Three Percenters militia group has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for his role in storming the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.
It is the longest sentence imposed so far among hundreds of cases related to the insurrection by extremist supporters of Donald Trump who sought to stop the official congressional certification of Joe Biden's election victory over his Republican rival.
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