U.S. Air Force veteran Larry Brock faces up to 20 years in prison after being convicted Wednesday of up to six felonies for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol in Washington.
Brock, a 55-year-old former lieutenant colonel, stormed the Senate building decked out in his Army fatigues that Jan. 6 when a massive mob of supporters of former President Donald Trump came to his call to prevent the recount of the electoral votes certifying Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 presidential election.
On the eve of that assault, the indictment has shown how Brock on social networks showed that he preferred «insurrection» before recognizing the result of those elections and even a day before the riot took place he wrote that the «second American revolution begins in less than two days».
That is precisely one of the crimes for which he has been found guilty, that of attempting an official proceeding, as well as five other lesser charges. While the sentence could be up to 20 years, the sentence will be known in February.
According to prosecutors, during the short 10-minute stroll through the Senate, Brock had time to search the desks of several of the senators’ offices, CNN reports.
Brock is one more of the motley, but dangerous, followers of Donald Trump who did not hesitate to stand up that January 6 in front of the Capitol after hearing him in a speech at the gates of the White House to say that the elections were a fraud and should be challenged.
Considered by the U.S. Attorney’s Office as «the most far-reaching investigation» in its history, the case against the seditionists who went to Congress to stop Joe Biden’s transfer of power has so far resulted in more than 870 arrests after 22 months since the insurrection took place.
