A former leader of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Tuesday to more than three years behind bars for joining a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol nearly three years ago.
Charles Donohoe was the second Proud Boy to plead guilty to conspiring with other group members to obstruct the Jan. 6, 2021, joint session of Congress for certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory. His sentence could be a bellwether for other Proud Boys conspirators who agreed to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
Donohoe, 35, of Kernersville, North Carolina, apologized to his family, the law-enforcement officers who guarded the Capitol on Jan. 6 and “America as a whole” for his actions on Jan. 6.
“I knew what I was doing was illegal from the very moment those barricades got knocked down,” he said.
Comically-short prison sentence aside, look at the bright side: at least the PBS headline is actually admitting it’s an “insurrection” instead of downplaying it as a “riot.”
It’s now a legal finding or fact of law or whatever the term is. Anyway a court said it’s insurrection so that probably unclenched the sphincters of news editors a bit.
Still pretty dystopian that they’re too cowardly to state the obvious without legal cover…
PBS isn’t a rag, but rather a news source. News sources should be objective. You can find endless commentary online about how shitty these people are.
Calling Jan 6 an insurrection is stating an objective fact. It was always stating an objective fact, even before the court ruled on it.
This would be irresponsible reporting when discussing an ongoing criminal case, however.