A man was sentenced Tuesday to seven years in prison for breaking into the US Capitol and participating in an attack on a police officer, having been dubbed “a wrecking ball in the shape of a man” by the judge.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Kyle Young in the United States District Court in Washington to seven years in prison, noting that he admitted to assisting in the attack on a police officer during the invasion that took place on January 6, 2021.
“You were a wrecking ball in the shape of a man that day,” Berman Jackson noted to the Iowa State man.
This sentence is one of the harshest related to the riots, when hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump tried to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory.
The harshest sentence, ten years in prison, was given to a former New York police officer who assaulted a police officer on Capitol Hill with a metal pole.
Some 900 people have been charged so far in the Capitol attack and more than 400 have pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial.
Kyle Young wept as he apologized to former Washington Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone, adding that he wished he could take back his actions from that day.
Fanone told in court about the near-death experience he suffered at the hands of the invaders, after being repeatedly beaten and beaten by a ‘taser’. [arma de choque].
The attack ended his career as a police officer.
Young, 38, from Redfield, Iowa, traveled to the Capitol with her 16-year-old son and, according to footage from the day of the attack, was seen ‘blinding’ authorities with a powerful approach, then turning him in. to his son, allowing him to enter the fight directly.
Young was also sentenced to three years of supervision and will have to complete 100 hours of community service.
Source: TSF
