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Alt-Right South Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to Attacking the US Capitol on January 6 [1]

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Date: 2024-04-20  

On Friday, Tyler Bradley Dykes pleaded guilty to two felony charges of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers (in violation of 18 US Code § 111) and agreed his use of a police riot shield constituted a dangerous weapon. Use of the riot shield may incur enhanced penalties.

The Daily Beast reported that the defendant completed serving a felony sentence for bearing a torch at the violent 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, SC. All of these factors will be considered when Senior US District Court Judge Beryl Howell, a President Obama nominated jurist, sentences Tyler Bradley Dykes on 19 July 2024, in Washington, DC. Her Honor has been an outspoken critic of the uneven Justice Department approach to January 6 prosecutions.

After the MAGA mob penetrated police lines at the east entrance of the US Capitol building, Dykes pushed his way to the front. The seditionist then forcibly took away an officer's riot shield, leaving him vulnerable to pepper spray and attack from other insurrectionists. (Undated imagery courtesy of the Daily Beast)

Sources: www.justice.gov/...

www.thedailybeast.com/…

www.politico.com/...

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