Man who attacked police at the US Capitol with poles gets 20 years, one of longest Jan. 6 sentences

Man who attacked police with pole during Jan. 6 Capitol riot handed 20-year jail term

David Nicholas Dempsey given one of longest prison sentences in connection with 2021 assault on the US Capitol - Anadolu Ajansı

A court in Washington sent David Dempsey, who participated in the violence during the invasion of the Capitol by radical supporters of former President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021, to twenty years behind bars. The man confessed to two assaults on police officers, and apologized to them before the verdict was handed down. It is the second highest sentence handed down by US courts in connection with the rampage of Trump supporters at the time.

David Dempsey had a criminal record for several cases in which he had attacked political opponents during the 2019 and 2020 protests.

20 years in prison for one of 'most violent' Capitol rioters

A man described by prosecutors as one of the "most violent" members of a pro-Donald Trump mob that stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021 was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday.The sentence handed down to David Dempsey, 37, of Santa Ana, California, is the second longest for any of the nearly 1,500 people charged for their roles in the attack on Congress.Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the far-right Proud Boys group, was convicted…

It is one of the highest sentences ever imposed on those involved in the attack on the seat of the US Parliament. The legal investigation into the events of January 2021 is still ongoing.

A US court has sentenced one of the attackers on the US Capitol to 20 years in prison for particularly violent acts during the storming of the Capitol in January 2021. This is the second-highest sentence to date in connection with the storming of the Capitol. The indictment stated that 37-year-old David Dempsey "used his hands, feet, flagpoles, crutches, pepper spray, broken furniture and anything else he could get his hands on as weapons agains…