A New York man who punched a police officer and took a riot defend in the course of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol assault was sentenced to almost three years in jail Friday.
Jonathan Munafo, 36, is about to serve 33 months behind bars with 36 months of supervised launch after pleading responsible in April to 2 felony fees of assaulting, resisting or impeding sure officers and civil dysfunction.
The day of the assault, Munafo cheered together with different rioters as they tried to breach the Capitol in Washington, in keeping with the Division of Justice.
“He used two totally different poles to strike the window of a Capitol workplace roughly 13 instances,” the DOJ said in a press release. “Munafo typically regarded again on the crowd, shouting, chanting, and making an attempt to rile up the opposite rioters.”
Later that afternoon, Munafo punched a member of the Metropolitan Police Division twice earlier than grabbing with the officer’s defend.
“The second punch from Munafo seems to have prompted the officer’s head to snap again,” the press launch stated. “Munafo then took the officer’s riot defend and slunk away into the gang, leaving the officer with no defend and weak to assaults from different rioters.”
Roughly 140 police officers were injured the day of the assault. Others later died by suicide.
Munafo is amongst greater than 1,100 individuals who have been charged for his or her roles within the riot.
A number of members of the violent neo-fascist gang the Proud Boys have been not too long ago sentenced to years in jail in reference to the assault. Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, the group’s former chairman, was given the longest sentence but amongst all Jan. 6 instances when a decide slapped him with 22 years behind bars earlier this month.
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