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Posted: 2023-09-01T16:37:04Z | Updated: 2023-09-01T22:56:13Z

A federal judge sentenced two more high-ranking Proud Boys to prison on Friday over the far-right street gangs outsize role in the planning and execution of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Dominic Pezzola, who breached the Capitol by smashing a window with a stolen police riot shield, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars in a D.C. District Court, four months after he was found guilty on obstruction and other charges related to the attack. Ethan Nordean, the gangs most notorious bruiser known for numerous violent assaults at political rallies in the Donald Trump era was sentenced to 18 years in a second hearing Friday afternoon.

Trump won! Pezzola said while walking out of the courtroom after being hit with a decade behind bars.

Pezzola was found not guilty on the most serious charge of the trial, seditious conspiracy, unlike Nordean and three other Proud Boy co-defendants this past May . But he played a key role in the riot as the first person to smash through a Capitol window using a stolen police shield, and prosecutors argued he should spend 20 years behind bars.

Pezzola, who wore an orange prison-issued jumpsuit and sported a long beard, spoke before his sentencing and apologized for his actions the day of the Capitol attack.

I messed up and I let the people who care and depend on me the most down, Pezzola said, according to reporters in the courtroom .

Pezzola described his time in jail as an emotional black hole, and apologized to his eldest daughter, who was not in the courtroom.

I pray for the courts mercy to be there for you in the future, he said before receiving his 10-year sentence.

He added that there was no place in my future for groups or politics whatsoever.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly offered little sympathy for Pezzola.

The reality is you ... smashed that window and let people stream into that Capitol building and threaten the lives of our lawmakers, Kelly said. Its not something I ever would have dreamed I would see in our country.

Despite his ostensible remorse, as Pezzola was led away from court, he raised a fist in the air and shouted Trump won!

Four other members of the far-right street-fighting group were found guilty in May on seditious conspiracy charges: Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and the gangs chairman, Enrique Tarrio. All five were accused of scheming to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power after the 2020 election.

Nordean was sentenced later on Friday. Prosecutors argued he should spend 27 years behind bars for leading a group of nearly 200 men to the Capitol grounds.