Marine accused of flashing a Nazi salute during the Capitol riot gets almost 5 years in prison

[rangerrebew]

Marine accused of flashing a Nazi salute during the Capitol riot gets almost 5 years in prison
 

BY  MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Updated 2:31 PM EDT, July 19, 2024
 
A Marine who stormed the U.S. Capitol and apparently flashed a Nazi salute in front of the building was sentenced on Friday to nearly five years in prison.

Tyler Bradley Dykes, of South Carolina, was an active-duty Marine when he grabbed a police riot shield from the hands of two police officers and used it to push his way through police lines during the attack by the mob of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters on Jan. 6, 2021.

Dykes, who pleaded guilty in April to assault charges, previously was convicted of a crime stemming from the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dykes was transferred to federal custody in 2023 after he served a six-month sentence in a state prison.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell sentenced Dykes, who’s 26, to four years and nine months of imprisonment, the Justice Department said.

https://apnews.com/article/marine-capitol-riot-ea3478197e15b21810aa97b3351663c6

[catfish1957]

While BLM/Anitfa rioters destroyed $Billions in '20, and 90% walked. 

Big difference in doing something dumb and being a bonofide criminal

[PeteS in CA]

Five years for assaulting multiple police officers seems a bit light, IMO. The issue is the deadly (sometimes literally) contrast between the justice he received and the utter lack of proportional justice for the thousands or 10s of thousands of 2020 race-rioters.