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A member of the Proud Boys extremist group who took selfies in the Senate gallery during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot and once told a judge he would “still do it all over again” was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison, federal prosecutors said.
Marc Anthony Bru, 44, of Vancouver, Washington, was also sentenced to 36 months of supervised release and ordered to pay a $7,946 fine and $2,000 in restitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a statement...
...On Jan. 6, prosecutors said, Bru met up with other members of the Proud Boys and was
“intent on obstructing the certification of the Electoral College vote." ... Do you right wing boys see that? He was found guilty on Oct. 3 of two felonies, obstruction of an official proceeding and civil disorder, along with five misdemeanors. The obstruction of an official proceeding felony was for intentionally obstructing the certification of the Electoral College vote. Intentional - that means they knew very well what they were doing. This is part of the insurrectionist elements in the crowd.The FBI arrested Bru on March 30, 2021. While he was on pretrial release, he was arrested twice for allegedly driving under the influence, but he failed to appear at scheduled court hearings in both cases, prosecutors said.
On June 26 of last year, Bru also failed to appear for a scheduled pretrial hearing in his federal case. Two days later, he posted screenshots on social media of a conversation he had about news reports that he failed to show at the federal hearing, according to prosecutors.
He wrote, “nice, I certified mailed my motion to the prosecutor, I’m done entertaining their bull----," prosecutors said.
Bru also failed to show up at a second district court hearing on June 30, and a bench warrant was issued for his arrest. He was arrested on July 23. During that hearing, he told a federal judge, according to prosecutors, “You could give me 100 years and I would still do it all over again.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/proud-boys-me...Cambridge Dictionary: insurrection
an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country, usually by violence:
