Proud Boy Sentenced To 10 Years In Anti-BLM Assaults

Portland’s NBC News affiliate reports:

Proud Boys member Alan Swinney has been sentenced by Judge Heidi Moawad to 10 years in prison with three years post-prison supervision, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced on Friday.

Swinney injured a man’s eye by shooting him in the face with a paintball gun, sprayed people directly in the face with bear mace on multiple occasions and aimed a loaded Ruger .357 magnum at a crowd of people.

Prosecutors with the District Attorney’s office presented evidence that Swinney used social media to amplify his white nationalist beliefs and to threaten and incite politically motivated violence.

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