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Capitol rioter from Idaho gets 4 years for attacking police with pipe

An Idaho man who hit a police officer with a pipe as part of the mob that stormed the U.S.

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An Idaho man who hit a police officer with a pipe as part of the mob that stormed the U.S.

Highlights

  • Idaho man sentenced to more than four years in federal prison.
  • Duke Edward Wilson, 68, hit a police officer with a pipe as part of the mob that stormed the U.S.
  • Capitol.
  • Prosecutors said he attacked at least three officers in a tunnel in the Capitol Building on Jan.
  • 6, 2021.
  • Judge Royce Lamberth said the 51-month sentence was necessary because the insurrection was “a horrible day for our country’s” More than 700 people have been charged with crimes connected to the Capitol siege, and more than 200 of them have pleaded guilty.