USA: "I'm very ashamed": Young American sentenced to prison for storming the Capitol

The images were disturbing.

USA: "I'm very ashamed": Young American sentenced to prison for storming the Capitol

The images were disturbing. Thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021 after the then President's election defeat, frightened parliamentarians and attacked security forces and police officers. Now one of them has again been sentenced to prison.

Two years in prison, that's the sentence against the 24-year-old man from Delaware, who broke into the House of Parliament in Washington with his father that day.

The 24-year-old told US District Judge Trevor McFadden that he "deeply regrets" his actions and is "very ashamed" of his behavior that day, ABC News reported have.

He said he carries with him every day the "shame and realization" that he took part in an event that "puts an eyesore" not only on his character but also on the history of the United States. When asked how he came to take part in the Capitol storm, he replied, "The crowd, the energy. It's just very overwhelming."

He and his father "were among the first people to enter the Capitol on Jan. 6," the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia said in a statement. "They illegally entered the Capitol grounds and joined a crowd of rioters who walked up the steps of the building. The people nearby (...) smashed a window with a police sign and a wooden plank," from which the defendant shouted a large removed the pane of glass to clear the way. His father's sentencing is scheduled for January 20th.

On January 6, 2021, supporters of the then US President Donald Trump violently stormed the seat of parliament in the capital Washington. Congress met there to certify the victory of Trump's Democratic challenger Joe Biden in the previous presidential election.

Five people were killed in the riots, including a police officer. Trump had recently incited his supporters at a rally by claiming that his election victory had been stolen.

In the 21 months since Jan. 6, 2021, more than 880 people have been arrested in nearly all 50 states in nearly all 50 states for offenses related to the storming of the U.S. Capitol, including more than 270 people charged with assault or obstruction of law enforcement were charged.

Most recently, a New York man was sentenced to the longest-ever sentence in the case for his role in the attack on the US Capitol: The former NYPD cop who attacked a Capitol cop with a flagpole and ripped his gas mask off his face, was sentenced to ten years in prison for assaulting a security guard.

Sources: Department of Justice, ABC News, with DPA

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