Damn, it's a busy Friday. This is the third 'turd sentenced today. What's up with these idiots? They are never sorry and crying when bragging on Facebook, but in the courtroom it's a different story.
And what kind of pussy "brings weapons everywhere"? That's almost as laughable as the 2nd idiot sentenced today claiming he climbed the wall at the Capitol because back home, climbing walls was a common thing. Almost.
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A Donald Trump supporter who brought two guns to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and dropped one of them on Capitol grounds, was sentenced to five years in federal prison on Friday.
Mark Mazza was sentenced to 60 months behind bars by Judge James E. Boasberg. Before he was sentenced, Mazza told the court he got "caught up in a mob mentality that I never anticipated" and that he was "not quite the monster that the prosecution has described me as."
Federal prosecutors said that Mazza, "while armed with [a] .40 caliber loaded firearm, engaged in multiple efforts to break through the police line: he repeatedly pushed against officers using the combined physical exertion of the mob; he armed himself with a stolen police baton and assaulted officers with the baton; he yelled at officers telling them to get out the mob’s way and to 'Get out of our house!'; he held open the door to the tunnel entrance against the resistance of officers, and after being rebuffed, he gathered additional rioters into the tunnel area to continue 'heave-ho' pushes against officers in the doorway."
Mark Mazza, wearing a cap and a scarf with stars, at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia)
Mazza told the judge he brought the weapons to D.C. because he brings weapons everywhere and had thought he and the person he was traveling with were staying in a dangerous location in the nation's capital. Although Mazza now admits he lost one of his guns at the U.S. Capitol, he filed a false police report claiming it was stolen back in his home state of Indiana.
Mazza said he regretted coming to the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“I wish I could erase it. I wish I could go back and take that hour back" and maybe go to a museum and grab some dinner, he said. He said he felt bad for his children and hoped that his parents won't die before he gets out of federal prison.
“I’m treating this kind of like another military step, like it’s something I’ve got to do,” Mazza, a veteran, said.
Judge Boasberg credited Mazza with helping the officers after participating in the assault but said his conduct was deserving of a significant period of incarceration.
"I don’t know what on earth you were thinking about in that tunnel that day," Boasberg says, calling the videos of his conduct inside the western tunnel "incredibly alarming."
“You weren’t one of the worst, I can see that," Boasberg said. "But the mob doesn’t accomplish what it accomplished that day without numbers."
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