US EditionMan who attacked police at the US Capitol with poles gets 20 years, one of longest Jan. 6 sentences
- A California man, David Nicholas Dempsey, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attacking police with flagpoles during the January 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
- Dempsey's sentence is among the longest for Capitol riot cases, highlighting his violent actions against law enforcement.
- His attacks included swinging poles and using a crutch against officers, classifying him as one of the mob's most dangerous members.
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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…
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