BREAKING: Proud Boys’ sentencing delayed ‘due to an emergency’: DOJ

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Aug 30, 2023 minute read

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio will have to wait to hear his fate after a sentencing hearing set to take place on Wednesday was canceled due to an "emergency." Tarrio's former colleague, Ethan Nordean, also had his sentencing delayed.

The pair were found guilty of seditious conspiracy alongside fellow ex-Proud Boys Joe Biggs and Zach Rehl in May over their actions during the January 6 riots. In the weeks since, prosecutors have revealed that they are seeking long prison terms for the defendants, especially Tarrio and Biggs, whom the Department of Justice wants to spend 33 years behind bars.

According to the Hill, Department of Justice spokesperson Patricia Hartman said the hearings were canceled "due to an emergency," but did not offer any further details.

The sentencing hearings for Biggs and Rehl, scheduled for Thursday, appear to be unaffected. A fifth member, Dominic Pezzola, is set to hear his fate on Friday. He was the only defendant in the case not to be charged with seditious conspiracy, and faces the shortest proposed sentence of the bunch, at 20 years.

As NBC News reports, defendants gathered before US District Judge Timothy Kelly in Washington, DC on Tuesday to hear victim impact statements from Capitol Police officers who were there on January 6.

Officer Shae Cooney detailed the day, drawing attention to the death of her colleague Brian Sicknick, who collapsed on January 6, and passed away the following day. In April of 2021, the DC chief medical examiner ruled Sicknick suffered two strokes and died of natural causes.

"Every day we have to be reminded that he's not here anymore because the people in this courtroom decided that they weren't happy with how an election went, and they thought the best idea was to break into the Capitol, fight police officers and try to overturn an election," she said.

Her sentiments were shared by fellow former officer Marc Ode, who referred to the events of January 6 as a "planned and organized attempt to overthrow our constitutional process by individuals who determined that their opinion of the few were superior to our constitution and decided to use violence and terror to impose their will."

This is a breaking story and will be updated.

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