Joe Biggs, a leader of the so-called Proud Boys, was convicted by a Washington, DC jury of several charges including ‘seditious conspiracy’ for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
In sentencing him, the Judge spoke passionately:
“Our Constitution and laws give you so many important rights that Americans have fought and died for and that you yourself put on a uniform to defend,” District Judge Timothy Kelly said in handing down the sentence to Biggs. “People around the world would give anything for these rights.”
But January 6, 2021, Kelly said, “broke our tradition of the peaceful transferring of power” in the United States.
“The nature of the constitutional moment we were in that day is something that is so sensitive that it deserves a significant sentence,” he added.