Capitol Police Sgt. Gonell said he vividly remembered being punched and attacked by Duke Wilson of Nampa, Idaho. Wilson got one of the stiffest sentences yet for assaulting the police.
said Wilson swung a PVC pipe at an officer who wasn’t wearing a helmet and Gonell blocked it, damaging both of his hands.“Although Mr. Wilson’s jacket was soaked with pepper spray,” Gonell testified, “he insisted on continuing to fight me, to prevent us from closing that door that would permit him and his fellow insurrectionists to advance through that tunnel.”“I remember seeing Mr. Wilson pick up a flagpole from the floor and use it as a weapon,” Gonell said.
Wilson was the 10th Capitol riot defendant sentenced on felony charges, after pleading guilty to assaulting officers and obstructing an official proceeding, and the sixth sentenced for assaulting the police. His 51-month sentence was the second longest given for such a charge, behind only thefor hurling a fire extinguisher and other items at police. Of 101 defendants who have been sentenced for misdemeanors so far, 38 have received jail or prison sentences.
In a letter Wilson wrote to the judge, he said he was struck in the head with a pipe, and that of those fighting with police, “I heard later that these people were with antifa and were getting the crowd worked up and agitated.”
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