Marc Bru repeatedly interrupted chief judge before the sentence was handed down, calling him a ‘clown’ and a ‘fraud’
A man who stormed the US Capitol with fellow Proud Boys far-right extremist group members was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in prison after he berated and insulted the judge who punished him.
Marc Bru repeatedly interrupted chief judge James Boasberg before the sentence was handed down, calling him a “clown” and a “fraud” presiding over a “kangaroo court”.
The judge warned Bru that he could be kicked out of the courtroom if he continued to disrupt the proceedings.
“You can give me 100 years and I’d do it all over again,” said Bru, who was handcuffed and shackled.
“That’s the definition of no remorse in my book,” the judge said.
Bru has been representing himself with an attorney on standby. He has spewed anti-government rhetoric that appears to be inspired by the sovereign citizen movement. At the start of the hearing, Bru demanded that the judge and a prosecutor turn over five years of their financial records.
Just to make it perfectly clear that this guy is an imbecile.
I mean if the last decade hasn’t proven it yet, I just want to reiterate. You don’t need to be smart to destroy America.
According to another article the guy is 43. Imagine proudly throwing away the majority of your forties for Donald fucking Trump. Like most people when I was young I always thought 40 was ancient but now that I’m approaching it myself I simply can’t imagine anything being worth losing these years. My partner and I finally have the stability and the means to do many of the things we’ve always dreamed of. It would be such a waste.
I suspect he’d didn’t have as much to lose by throwing away his 40s as you would. He doesn’t sound like the most rational of sorts, so probably didn’t have the 'stability and the means" for a good life you mention.
He did have enough free time on his hands to travel from wherever he lives to storm the capitol., so you’re probably onto something there.
Well, let’s not lay a blanket statement like that down on anybody that makes an effort to join a protest in DC. It is travel, a day’s worth of travel for some, or a flight, and you have to book a stay somewhere, pay for parking, food, etc. There are lot of people who will commit to that for a protest for really good causes, and that shouldn’t be downplayed.
But then there’s assholes like this, who did all of that…for Donald Trump.
He assumed that since Trump gets away with insulting the judge, he could do it, too. This was partially a consequence of treating Trump with kid gloves and tolerating his shenanigans. I hope Trump’s other judges take note, but they probably won’t.
Well they REALLY want to make things stick to Trump which means giving absolutely zero possibility of an appeal determining bias from the judge. They want these cases to be run so well and so by the book that there’s no chance of him getting off on a technicality.
I understand that, but they’ve gotta draw the line somewhere. So far, it doesn’t look like they have. All the various judges seem to have done is sternly told him things that are common sense to virtually every other defendant.
He’s got like 3 gag orders that have through multiple appeals courts and been affirmed. How many previous presidents were sued criminally and given gag orders? Precisely 1. This is still truly gigantic. It took someone like Trump to come along for the court system to ever even have to test the limits of how you treat former presidents.
Slapping Trump down in court would feel awesome until whatever decisions the judge makes get overturned on appeal on some technicality. I’m perfectly happy with the current strategy of giving him all the rope he wants. If his supporters want to fuck around and find out how the justice system works for folks in their income bracket…well, I’m sorry but insurrection has consequences and unapologetic insurrection has bigger consequences.
I’m sure he’s emulating people like Trump, but I doubt he’s doing it because he thinks there won’t be consequences because of them. I doubt he’s thought about it at all.
However, WERE there actually consequences here for insulting the judge? Sounds like the sentence is what he was going to receive anyway.
Should have took him up on that 100 years proposal.
But, of course, he’s another one who got a slap on the wrist even after flat out going Goofy meme on this shit.
He stormed the capital in a literal attempt to help overthrow the Untied States government. This is a situation where they are lucky the army didn’t show up and open fire. If that had happened it would have honestly been understandable because this was AN ATTACK ON OUR GOVERNMENT.
There are people out there doing decades because they got caught with weed and you say 6 years for trying to TAKE DOWN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT is not a slap on the wrist?
I agree, it’s not a slap on the wrist.
But I will say that the majority of our sentencing is actually too long and too harsh. We’ve had decades of being “tough on crime” but it hasn’t worked and will not work. We need to rethink our criminal justice system rather than just hand out bigger and harsher penalties.
One less trump voter
While in this case it is probably for the best, losing voting rights because of convictions is terrible in general, and has been used to strip black people and other groups of their votes for unfairly enforced laws. This is not new, and continues to this day, for example the Florida legislature blatantly ignoring the will of the people to restore votes to felons.
Yes, you can legally vote from jail/prison, however many states, and local counties, will make this difficult. You lose voting rights for a felony (possibly just a subset). A misdemeanor does not impact your voting rights.
Without double checking, I’m guessing this guy was charged with a felony. Most of the January 6 charges were misdemeanors, not felonies. It really feels like your should lose your voting rights for at least 1 election cycle if you’re charged with some sort of election fraud or trying to over turn an election
https://www.sentencingproject.org/policy-brief/voting-in-jails/
Definitely a felony, you don’t get longer than a year in prison for a misdemeanor.
No and in most states, an American can’t vote after getting out of prison
Yes, they can, though it does vary by state. Most states allow ex-felons to vote after at least probation, there are eleven that do not.
https://felonvoting.procon.org/state-felon-voting-laws/
But in reality, it doesn’t really matter as much as we’d want it to thanks to fairly absurd sentencing laws and probationary periods, and a drive by red states to make protesting a felony.
