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Kyle Fitzsimons, a 39-year-old man from Maine, has been sentenced to seven years in prison as a result of his actions during the Capitol protest on Jan. 6, 2021.
Prosecutors say that he pushed two officers up stairs of the Capitol, helping rioters surge forward.
Kyle Fitzsimons of Maine was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison followed by three years of supervised release.
Kyle Fitzsimons sported a butcher's coat, a fur pelt and wooden archery bow as he assaulted police in the 'most violent clashes that day'
A professional butcher whose bloody, wild-eyed face became one of the most memorable images of the U.S. Capitol riot has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison for hurling a bow like a spear at police and attacking several other officers. Kyle Fitzsimons was wearing a white butcher’s coat embroidered with his first name when prosecutors say he separately assaulted at least five officers near a tunnel where police were guarding an entrance to the Capitol. The federal judge who sentenced Fitzsimons on Thursday also convicted the Maine resident of 11 charges related to the Jan. 6, 20...