Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs sentenced to 17 years in January 6 case
Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs sentenced to 17 years in January 6 case
A leader of the Proud Boys who led the far-right organization’s infamous march to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years in prison – among the longest sentence handed down yet for a convicted rioter.
A leader of the Proud Boys who led the far-right organization’s infamous march to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years in prison – among the longest sentence handed down yet for a convicted rioter.
Joe Biggs was convicted by a Washington, DC jury of several charges including seditious conspiracy for attempting to forcibly prevent the peaceful transfer of power from then-President Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election.
The government wanted Biggs to serve 33 years in federal prison. That's 15 years longer than the longest sentence in a Jan. 6 case to date: the 18-year sentence that went to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, also convicted of seditious conspiracy, after prosecutors sought 25 years in federal prison.
This guy used violence and terrorism because he didn't want my vote to count simply because he didn't like the way I voted. Fuck this asshole. I hope he commits more felonies in prison and gets more time tacked on. 17 years isn't enough for this fascist asshole.
He has a young daughter. Poor daughter having such a shit father.
Honestly, she's probably better off without this failure of a human being in her life.
I agree with the rage, but I personally -- snowball in hell it may be -- hope he and the others that participated in this come to realize why what they did is wrong and come to eventually speak against it.
It’s not do that he thought that he did not like your vote, but because he thought your vote does not matter. A tiny but important difference, I think.
Now that the seditionists are getting prison terms, VOTE VOTE VOTE. The next Republican president will pardon all of these assholes instantly.
Pardon is the least of our concerns.
The next Republican president will pardon all of these assholes instantly.
Only if they can afford to pay for it. You shouldn't let them get their hopes up on false promises.
Imagine throwing away your life because a different party is rightfully elected. Your wife is gone. She's not staying around, because in 17 years you will both be different people. Your kid is gone. You will never know your kid, even when you get out.
It's stupid, because presidents promise so much, but do so little. You threw away your life for pretty much nothing.
Fucking idiots lol.
They don’t think they did anything wrong.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking people like this can be reasoned with. They can not.
We are better off executing people like this. Prison for life is a close second.
Keeping them alive only emboldens others to follow in their footsteps until they succeed.
No I am not ‘stooping to their level’ in suggesting that traitors are executed.
There’s a reason treason carries the death penalty.
17 years for OrangeLeader, who likely doesn't even know who Joe Biggs is. He'll be 55 years old when released (assuming full term).
Did Joe Biggs ever regret listening to Trump's lies? Has he said anything?
Biggs grew emotional as he talked about his daughter, swearing on her life that he intended Jan. 6 to be his last event with the Proud Boys.
“I’m done with it. I’m sick and tired of left versus right,” Biggs said. The only group he wants to be affiliated with, he said, is his daughter’s PTA.
He's an asshole. And he is sorry; sorry that he got caught. He's sick of it now, but wasn't then. He makes no statement about the victims of his violence. He makes no statements about the millions of nameless victims whose votes he wanted overturned.
Even if he had said he regretted acting on Trump's lies, it wouldn't mean a thing. He is just upset he got caught and punished. He's an asshole.
Being one of the leaders of the group of people who attempted to overthrow your government and peaceful democratic systems is only 17 years in prison?
Wow just wow
If I were a traitor, I would see this sentence and think, "yeah, it kinda looks worth it, honestly."
Conservatives get light sentences. It's just a thing we do here, unfortunately.
So many people get longer sentences for smaller crimes. :(
33 years would have been better. A firing squad even betterer.
But nearly 20 years is better than the slap on the wrists that other traitors were getting.
Just FYI, Thomas Webster got 10 years and Stewart Rhodes got 18 years. (So as to say this isn't the first that's actually gotten some significant time behind bars)
Light sentence. 30+ would be better for these treasonous scumbags
Especially for someone who took an oath. We shouldn't go easier because of his service, but harder, particularly regarding insurrection and invasion of Congress. He was tip of the spear in this, and led conspiracy with as many people as he could influence.
People fucking died, should be 20 minimum for every asshole present that day
100%
Now he'll get to get out of prison and be denied the right to vote lol
Especially for someone who took an oath. We go easier because of his service, but harder, particularly regarding insurrection and invasion of Congress. He was tip of the spear.
Death by hanging is the most appropriate.
Please double his sentence. He is a threat to society at large.
Man is lucky he wasn't executed.
Has to be war time for that, right?
The Rosenbergs were executed in peacetimes.
Edit:
Currently, under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, 14 offenses are punishable by death. Under the following sections of the UCMJ, the death penalty can be imposed in both times of war and peace
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_the_United_States_military
Bye bye! Have fun in general pop, fuck-head!
Joe Biggs: Fucked around. Found out.
Joyous news, thank you!
Where's your pumpkin spice daddy now Joe?!
With any luck maybe you'll share a cell
Fuck all these people, every last one of them. Keep the convictions rolling. They each deserve it tenfold.
Not so proud anymore, eh?
Wow
Its fucking insane how prople get so much time for something so stupid in the middle of a year where there were riots all over the US
Why are they all getting basically a slap in the hand?
1.) First of all, fuck Joe Biggs, he's a traitor.
2.) Federal Sentencing Guidelines are a thing.
3.) 17 Years is not a slap on the wrist. He'll be losing his military benefits & retirement as well.
4.) The government may still appeal this sentencing, as they are for Steward Rhodes.
5.) He's subject to USMJ & has been found guilty of Sedition. They can still have a turn with him.
The guy should’ve been executed, but the burden on the prosecution might’ve been a high bar to cross for that punishment. At least he’ll be serving in federal prison, which is far harder time than state prison. Federal prison sentences for example won’t allow him to commute his sentence or ask for parole as easily as state sentences. You often hear about people serving only a fraction of their sentence in state prison; this avenue is not possible with federal charges. The president (Trump or a sympathizer) could commute or pardon him, but I think that’s a bridge Trump wouldn’t cross based on his current track record of pardons. Trump’s pardons were largely political gains for him (self serving) and I don’t think a troublemaker would in the end help him very much.