Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted police calls for 'accountability' for 2020 election lies
Brian Mock was sentenced to prison for assaulting officers on Jan. 6 and called for "accountability" for politicians who spread lies about the 2020 election.
WASHINGTON — A Minnesota man convicted of assaulting multiple officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol called for "accountability" for politicians who spread lies about the 2020 election during his sentencing hearing on Thursday.
Brian Mock was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison, a fraction of the nine years in federal prison that prosecutors had sought. A government sentencing memo noted Mock's repeated assaults on law enforcement and the "multiple false statements" he made at trial. With credit for time he's already served, Mock will end up serving less than two years of additional time behind bars.
Mock, who was a strong supporter of Donald Trump, said during his sentencing hearing that he heard the "same thing over and over again" from Republican politicians who falsely claimed that there was massive election fraud in 2020. Mock noted that none of those prominent politicians who made such claims in the lead-up to the Jan. 6 attack had since come forward to apologize or to claim that they too were duped.
Brian Christopher Mock at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. U.S. District Court for D.C. "There should be some accountability for that because I wouldn't have been there otherwise," Mock told Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on Thursday.
Boasberg said he agreed that politicians who falsely claimed the election was stolen should be "ashamed of themselves."
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