DOJ Seeks 21 Years For “Vicious” Capitol Rioter

August 9, 2024 Extremists, Trump cultists

NBC News reports:

Federal prosecutors will try to persuade a federal judge Friday to sentence a Donald Trump supporter who stood in front of a gallows and spoke of his desire to hang Democratic politicians before he assaulted numerous police officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to more than 21 years in federal prison.

David Dempsey, prosecutors say, “viciously” assaulted law enforcement officers at the lower west tunnel of the Capitol, where some of the worst violence took place on Jan. 6, 2021.

According to prosecutors, Dempsey climbed over fellow rioters “like human scaffolding” and used “his hands, feet, flag poles, crutches, pepper spray, broken pieces of furniture, and anything else he could get his hands on” as weapons against police officers. The government is seeking 262 months in federal prison, which would be one of the longest sentences given to any Jan. 6 rioter.

Read the full article. Dempsey was previously charged for dousing anti-Trump protesters with bear spray in 2019.



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