Proud Boys member Dominic Pezzola, who broke Capitol window with riot shield, sentenced to 10 years in prison

Unlike all his co-defendants, including Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, Dominic Pezzola was acquitted of seditious conspiracy.

FILE: In this Jan. 6, 2021, photo, rioters, including Dominic Pezzola, center with police shield, are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. — Dominic Pezzola, a member of the far-right Proud Boys group who became one of the more recognizable faces of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack after video showed him smashing a Capitol window with a riot shield, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Friday.

Despite his acquittal on this charge, prosecutors asked federal Judge Timothy Kelly to sentence Pezzola to 20 years in prison, a request the judge denied during Friday's hearing. He gathered with more than 100 members of the group including Nordean, Rehl and Biggs at the Washington Monument ahead of the Capitol attack and marched to the Capitol. According to evidence presented at trial, Pezzola then attacked law enforcement, stole a riot shield and used the shield to break a Capitol window before entering the building.

Pezzola — one of only two of the five Proud Boys co-defendants to take the stand in his own defense — urged the court in his own sentencing memorandum to send him to prison for 5 years.

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