Proud Boys group leader sentenced to over 5 years in prison for attacking police during Capitol riot

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A far-right extremist group leader was sentenced on Friday to more than five years in prison for repeatedly assaulting police officers with makeshift weapons during a mob’s attack on the U.S. Capitol over three years ago.

Scott Miller, who helped lead a Proud Boys chapter for Maryland and Washington, D.C., coordinated with other group members before they invaded the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to federal prosecutors. Miller, 33, attacked police seven different times with weapons, including a bottle, a stick and poles.

Notes found on Miller’s cellphone indicate that his white supremacist ideology and antisemitic views influenced his decision to storm the Capitol, a prosecutor wrote in a court filing. He expressed his intent to “fight” in order to protect “White America,” the filing says.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election interference case in Washington, said an attack like the Jan. 6 insurrection “can happen again” in the U.S.

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BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Updated 4:48 PM EDT, April 19, 2024


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/scott-miller-proud-boys-sentencing-capitol-riot-212ce817b7c04c6d9ac433e766b7cb9e

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This image from police body-worn camera video, contained and annotated in the Justice Department’s government’s sentencing memorandum supporting the sentencing of Scott Miller, shows Miller at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan sentenced Miller, of Millersville, Md., a former Proud Boys chapter leader, to five years and six months behind bars. Prosecutors say notes found on Miller’s cellphone indicate that his white supremacist ideology and antisemitic views influenced his decision to storm the Capitol. (Department of Justice via AP)

[Eugene]

1. Maryland "Proud Boy" Sentenced for Assaulting Law Enforcement and Other Charges During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

Source: U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia

Maryland “Proud Boy” Sentenced for Assaulting Law Enforcement and Other Charges During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

Friday, April 19, 2024
For Immediate Release
U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia

Defendant Assaulted Officer with Wooden Pole, Threw Objects at Police, Stole Riot Shield

WASHINGTON – A Maryland man was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for assaulting law enforcement with a dangerous weapon during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election.

Scott Miller, 37, of Millersville, Maryland, was sentenced to 66 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan. Miller pleaded guilty, on January 5, 2024, to a felony charge of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon.

According to court documents, on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, Miller, a leader of the Maryland Chapter of the Proud Boys, left his home in Maryland, purchased a new truck, and drove to Washington, D.C., to participate in the events at the Capitol that day. Miller arrived at approximately 4:15 p.m. at the Lower West Terrace “Tunnel”, the site of some of the most violent assaults on law enforcement officers that occurred on January 6th. Miller wore orange ski goggles, a black hooded sweatshirt under a tan coat, a tan backpack, a black and red neck gaiter, dark-colored pants, and black motorcycle gloves.

At the Tunnel entrance, Miller joined the crowd of rioters who were attacking members of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and the United States Capitol Police (USCP), who were defending the Tunnel and were lawfully engaged in the lawful performance of their official duties. Court documents say that at approximately 4:27 p.m., Miller struck an MPD officer multiple times with a long wooden pole. After that assault, Miller threw at least five objects at the police in the Tunnel, including a metal pipe or pole, a bottle, a short wooden stick, a large black speaker, and an article of clothing.

At approximately 4:33 p.m., Miller then struck multiple police officers who were defending the Tunnel several times by swinging and jabbing a long blue and white pole at their heads. Shortly thereafter, Miller grabbed ahold of a police riot shield held by two officers. Miller pulled the shield out of their hands and, after a brief struggle, ripped the shield away from the officers. Miller then carried the shield back into the crowd behind him and handed it to another rioter.

The FBI arrested Miller on Dec. 16, 2022, in Maryland.

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Read more: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/maryland-proud-boy-sentenced-assaulting-law-enforcement-and-other-charges-during-jan-6

[BootinUp]

2. Sounds like a real hard case. nt

[LudwigPastorius]

3. Five and half years in prison...

It's good thing he likes to fight.

[DENVERPOPS]

4. In most other countries

he would serve life in prison at best, in other countries he would get the Death Penalty........

Should be the same for all other insurrectionists and seditionists.........

Of course in many other countries, they would have been "dropped" as they came thru a door or window.......

[Imallin4Joe]

5. IMO, keep him in solitary or he'll form/join a RW prison gang..

May he rot in hell.

Recced

[royable]

6. Well, it took a while, but I'd say he F'd A and FO.

Zero sympathy from me.

[SergeStorms]

7. He can preach his white supremacy crap....

in prison and see where that gets him. I imagine he'll be very popular.

[PatSeg]

8. Just imagine if there hadn't been metal detectors on Jan 6

A lot of these insurrectionists would have been armed with guns and you know many of them would have used them. How many more dead would there have been? I think the only reason that some of them didn't cause more havoc was because they had to use makeshift weapons.

I am quite sure that this "Proud Boy" would have preferred to use a gun and would probably be facing a life sentence instead of five years.

[republianmushroom]

9. Scott, your application to Fed. U. and the Felon Club has been accepted. Enjoy.