The Justice Department (DOJ) announced the sentencing of Kenneth Bonawitz, a 58-year-old “Proud Boys” member, whom the DOJ described as “one of the more violent January 6 rioters.”
Bonawitz “assaulted at least six law enforcement officers on the West Plaza” on Jan. 6, 2021. The attacks, several of which are detailed in the news release, “included hurling himself at officers and tackling them to the ground, placing one officer in a chokehold, and lifting the officer up by the neck,” according to the DOJ.
One police officer who had also been a first responder at the Pentagon on 9/11, the DOJ said, was injured “so severely that the officer has now been forced to retire from the United States Capitol Police.”