Feds Seek 16 Years For Rioter Who Crushed Officer

Politico reports:

Prosecutors are seeking nearly 16 years in prison for Patrick McCaughey, a Jan. 6 defendant who pinned a police officer in a Capitol doorway amid some of the most chaotic moments of violence that day. The Justice Department called for the sentence — which would be more than five years longer than the longest sentence handed down in any Jan. 6 case — to reflect what it called McCaughey’s “heinous” conduct, some of the most egregious of any Jan. 6 defendant.

“McCaughey taunted police officers at the West Front bike racks and joined the mob that threw its weight against the beleaguered line of officers guarding the Capitol,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly Paschall wrote in the 45-page sentencing memo. “McCaughey used a deadly and dangerous weapon against Officer Hodges, where he spent over two minutes using his body weight to crush the officer in the doorframe.”

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Patrick McCaughey III was found guilty Tuesday of seven felony counts. Co-defendants Tristan Chandler and David Mehaffie were also convicted of multiple felonies. https://t.co/kdFlEdn3io

— WUSA9 (@wusa9) September 14, 2022

Jan. 6 rioter Patrick McCaughey “knew next to nothing about the 2020 election and listened to sources of information that were clearly false,” his defense sentencing memo states. https://t.co/xTj93BFdXf

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) April 7, 2023

A man who was seen crushing a Metropolitan Police Department officer in a door frame during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has been convicted of nine offenses, seven of them felonies. Patrick McCaughey III enjoy your prison time. pic.twitter.com/2qWdiKnruf

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