(C) BoingBoing
This story was originally published by BoingBoing and is unaltered.
. . . . . . . . . .



Prison for Capitol Hill rioter who took riot shield from cops and used it against them [1]

['Rob Beschizza']

Date: 2023-04-15

Patrick McCaughey III, was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment Friday for using a stolen riot shield to crush a police officer. Its the second-longest sentence so far handed down to the Trump supporters who sacked congressional offices on Jan 6, 2021.

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden sentenced McCaughey to seven years and six months in prison followed by two years of supervised release. The judge described McCaughey, 25, as a "poster child of all that was dangerous and appalling about" the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.

"Your actions are some of the most egregious crimes that were committed on that dark day," the judge told McCaughey.

[END]
---
[1] Url: https://boingboing.net/2023/04/15/prison-for-capitol-hill-rioter-who-took-riot-shield-from-cops-and-used-it-against-them.html

Published and (C) by BoingBoing
Content appears here under this condition or license: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0.

via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/boingboing/

You are viewing proxied material from magical.fish. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.