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Ex-Proud Boys leader is sentenced to over 3 years in prison for the Capitol insurrection plot

www.pbs.org

A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Tuesday to more than three years behind bars for joining a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol nearly three years ago.

Charles Donohoe was the second Proud Boy to plead guilty to conspiring with other group members to obstruct the Jan. 6, 2021, joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory. His sentence could be a bellwether for other Proud Boys conspirators who agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors.

Donohoe, 35, of Kernersville, North Carolina, apologized to his family, the law-enforcement officers who guarded the Capitol on Jan. 6 and “America as a whole” for his actions on Jan. 6.

“I knew what I was doing was illegal from the very moment those barricades got knocked down,” he said.

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The traitor deserves at least ten.
- I'm generally against large prison sentences, but he deserves life. He was attempting to deprive all Americans from having a say in our democracy. It's not like he was just hurting himself, or even just a few people.
  
  Per the article, he got a deal because he cooperated. I'm guessing that means he gave them intel on other people they could go after. Considering how light of a sentence he got, I'm guessing it was someone valuable. If we throw the book at everyone who cooperates nobody will cooperate.
  
  Sold!
- Life. Without parole.
- Made an example of.
- A 10mm to the skull? C'mon. A 9mm would work just fine.
  Sorry y'all, I got PTSD from that day, can hardly talk about it without crying and screaming. Can't look at pictures, let alone a 30-second video. Suffice to say, I'd pull the trigger myself and feel nothing.
  
  I think you need to get off the internet for awhile.
  
  You got PTSD from something you saw on TV so I'm gonna go ahead and suggest that literally killing a person would probably fuck you up pretty bad.
Comically-short prison sentence aside, look at the bright side: at least the PBS headline is actually admitting it's an "insurrection" instead of downplaying it as a "riot."
- It's now a legal finding or fact of law or whatever the term is. Anyway a court said it's insurrection so that probably unclenched the sphincters of news editors a bit.
  
  Still pretty dystopian that they're too cowardly to state the obvious without legal cover...
- Former Very Handsome Proud Boy Sentenced To Arduous, Interminable Probation For Role In Jan 6 Whoopsiedoodle
That's something I haven't seen before.
“I knew what I was doing was illegal from the very moment those barricades got knocked down,” he said.
3 years. 3 YEARS?!? TREASON IS 3 MEASLY YEARS?!? what a shit justice system
- A sentence this light probably means he gave up info on someone even more important.
  
  It's the second paragraph on the post.
- Insurrectionist in Chief is still campaigning.
- Meanwhile Trump's threatening to kill us for existing, and he's who they were fighting for.
  Justice.
Glad that it happened, but it taking three years is absurd. This guy walked as a free man for such a long time. Can't see it taking as long if he got charged with having a bag of shrooms, probably it could've got him a longer sentence too. But if he cooperated with authorities, maybe it means more charged idiots in the future? One can dream.
- Which is, right. But it's still a little bit less disappointing than having a former president and insurectionist still screeching idiotic propaganda and personal threats only limited by some lax gag orders. I'd love to see him behind the bars too, as a foreigner, for him supporting my opressive regime from falling down and finally becoming a proper country. I'd drink to that. And this person ending their sentence now is not as problematic, and even positive, as it means this system sometimes works right, at least for the lower ranks, and it has an opportunity to grow. It's at least promising. Just a wish, but beggars can't be choosers. Until there's some magick like class consciousness happens.
Give this piece of fascist shit the guillotine.
It has been said before but:
Fuck around and find out.
Too bad his sentence doesnt have a 0 on the end, fascist piece of shit.
So much wonderful news coming out today!
sucks to suck traitor! Just think, with good behavior you could be out shortly into Biden's second term!
The judge said Donohoe seems to be doing everything in his power to make amends for his crimes.
Oh? Is he planning to commit seppuku?

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