A Proud Boy who rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, berated a judge in a bizarre courtroom meltdown Wednesday as he was sentenced to six years in prison.
“You can give me 100 years and I’d do it all over again,” Marc Bru, who was handcuffed and shackled, yelled at the Washington, D.C., judge, the Associated Press reported.
Chief Judge James Boasberg hit back: “That’s the definition of no remorse in my book."
Bru had repeatedly interrupted the proceedings, calling the judge a “clown” who was in charge of a “kangaroo court.”
Prosecutors called him one of the least remorseful Jan. 6 rioters to have been tried. They said he had planned for a follow-up riot, this time in Portland, Oregon, weeks after the one in D.C.
“He wanted a repeat of January 6, only he implied this time would be more violent,” they wrote in a court filing, the AP reported.
Bru has been representing himself.
“I don’t accept any of your terms and conditions,” Bru told Boasberg. “You’re a clown and not a judge.”
On Tuesday, Bru had called into a nightly vigil that is held outside the jail where he and other rioters are being held, and promised he’d, “Try to put on a good show” at his sentencing.
He was convicted of seven charges in October.
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“Bru appears to have envisioned and been planning for a true armed insurrection, and from his post-conviction comments, he appears only to have become further radicalized and angry since then,” prosecutors wrote.
Bru disappeard before his trial and “defiantly boasted via Twitter that the government would have to come get him if it wanted him," prosecutors wrote.
“Approximately a month later, it did.”
