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.
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.
Is this guy claiming to be a hard core Antifa who was trying to make Trump look bad?
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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.
And prosecutors were seeking 7 years 3 months.
Are judges ever not lenient in these cases?
These are the types of cases where it pays to be lenient.
Without going deeply into the history & tactics of dealing with insurgencies: If the goal is social stability and reconciliation - it is best to be lenient the first time, but then be absolutely over-the-top brutal the second.
