A retired Air Force officer who stormed the U.S. Capitol dressed in combat gear and carried zip-tie handcuffs into the Senate gallery was sentenced on Friday to two years in prison.
Larry Brock, 55, of Grapevine, Texas, joined other rioters on the Senate floor only minutes after then-Vice President Mike Pence, senators and their staff evacuated the chamber to escape the mob attacking the building on Jan. 6, 2021.
The judge said Brock expressed "very troubling" and violent rhetoric before the Jan. 6 riot. The judge read aloud several of Brock's social media postings calling it "really pretty astounding" that a former high-ranking military officer expressed those words. In a Facebook message to another user on Christmas Eve, Brock outlined what he called a "plan of action if Congress fails to act" on Jan. 6. One of the "main tasks" in his plan was to "seize all Democratic politicians and Biden key staff and select Republicans."Brock flew combat missions in Afghanistan before retiring from the Air Force as a lieutenant colonel.
Defense attorney Charles Burnham said it is "inconceivable that was motivated by anything other than genuine concern for democracy." "This was consistent with Brock's stated overall mission on January 6, which was intelligence gathering to stop the certification and the transfer of power," prosecutors wrote.
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