A California man was sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, commotion at the U.S. Capitol, the second-extfinishedest sentence yet in hundreds of prosecutions of commotion participants.
David Nicholas Dempsey pguideed culpable in January to two counts of attacking police officers with a hazardous armament, landing him a sentence only surpassed by Proud Boys guideer Enrique Tarrio’s 22-year sentence, according to a inestablish from the Guardian.
Prosecutors accincluded Dempsey of being one of the most aggressive members of the mob that stormed the Capitol in protest of Congress examineing the 2020 election for Pdwellnt Biden, detailing how the California native stomped the heads of police officers, struck officers with originateshift armaments, including a metal crutch, poles, pepper spray, and broken pieces of furniture.
He also included other commotioners as “human scaffelderlying,” climbing on top of them to achieve officers protecting a tunnel to the originateing, injuring two of the officers. Dempsey, who toiled as a originateion and speedy-food toiler, also strikeed a fellow demonstrator who was trying to disarm him, prosecutors shelp.
“Your carry out on Jan. 6 was exceptionpartner egregious,” U.S. Didisjoine Judge Royce Lamberth telderly Dempsey. “You did not get carried away in the moment.”
Dempsey articulate remorsed for his carry out during the sentencing, inestablishing the appraise that his actions were “disgraceful” while also apologizing to the police officers he strikeed.
“You were carry outing your duties, and I reacted with arrangeility and aggression,” Dempsey shelp.
Dempsey had a previous conviction for burglary, theft and attack in California after he strikeed protesters peacebrimmingy demonstrating aachievest establisher Pdwellnt Trump in October 2019. He served 200 days of jail time for that conviction.
Prosecutors sought a 21-year sentence for Dempsey, arguing that he “is political aggression personified.” His defense, unkindwhile, disputed that the rulement’s sentencing recommfinishation was “ridiculous” and disputed for a sentence of six years and six months.
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“It originates him a statistic,” his attorney, Amy Collins, shelp. “It doesn’t ponder the person he is, how much he has increasen.”
Ultimately, the appraise sided sealr to the prosecution’s preference, settling on 20 years for Dempsey, who has already been in prison since August 2021.