Proud Boys’ Member Marc Bru Sentenced To 6 Years In Prison For Role In Jan. 6 Capitol Riot, Says In Court He’d Storm The Capitol ‘All Over Again’

Proud Boys member Marc Bru was sentenced to six years in prison for his involvement in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot – and he declared in court that he would storm the Capitol “all over again.”

Bru was convicted in October 2023 of five misdemeanor counts and two felony counts of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding.

He declined to offer a defense during his trial and did not add anything substantial aside from repeating that he never consented to the proceeding.

“You are outside of your jurisdiction,” Bru stated instead of giving a closing argument. “You have trafficked me and you have committed war crimes against me.”

While facing the consequences of his guilty verdict for two felonies and five misdemeanors, Bru showed little concern while standing before the court, calling D.C. District Chief Judge James Boasberg a “clown” and a “fraud.”

He interrupted an assistant U.S. attorney to accuse Boasberg of running a “kangaroo court” and demanded five years of tax returns from the judge and prosecutors.

“You can give me 100 years, and I’d do it all over again,” Bru claimed.

“As you sit here today, you say even if you got a hundred years, you’d do it all over again,” the judge responded. “That’s the definition of no remorse in my book.”

Boasberg sentenced the Proud Boy to 72 months in prison, less than the 87 months the government’s attorneys suggested.

On top of this, he was ordered to reimburse $2,000 in restitution and pay over $7,900 in fines for monies he collected through a GiveSendGo account related to his case.

The prosecutors said Bru should have a longer sentence since, of all the rioters brought before the court, he was one of the most remorseless.

They then noted that Bru absconded before his July 2023 trial date, proceeded to make plans to overthrow the government and encouraged other people to be a part of his mission.

The prosecutors noted that the Proud Boy was a part of another planning cell to enact a “January 6 2.0” attack a month and a half after the attack in Washington, D.C.

“Within six weeks following the riot, Bru sought to buy gas masks in bulk, recruited others and made plans to lead a violent, armed insurrection to take over the government in Portland, Oregon,” the court documents disclosed.

“Bru was arrested in this case before those plans could come to fruition,” the documents added.

Some of the evidence that the prosecution shared included text messages that showed when Bru reflected on the riot. He stated that it was not violent enough and that people were not adequately committed to bringing down the government.

Bru was arrested in Vancouver, Washington, back in March 2021 by the FBI but was released. He was later arrested two times after that in 2023 for driving under the influence.

Prosecutors pointed to his popularity and influence and cited his call on January 23 for nightly vigils outside the detention facility where he and other insurrectionists are being held.

Bru told his supporters that he promised to put on a good show while his sentencing took place.

The prosecution noted the comments he made after his conviction – he seems to have only become more irate and radicalized, even when being in prison.

“The question about whether Mr. Bru will re-offend has to some extent already been answered by Mr. Bru himself, who has declared over and over that these laws do not apply to him,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Gordon stated.

On September 5, 2023, the former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the Capitol attack.

District Judge Timothy Kelly gave Tarrio the longest sentence of anyone involved in the riot and said his reckless behavior threatened the peaceful transfer of power.

The former leader apologized but prosecutor Conor Mulroe said the Proud Boys controlled others and would go from city to city to beat advisories senseless in street fights.

On September 28, 2023, Christopher Worrell, another Proud Boys member, was arrested by the FBI for his role in the Capitol attack.

Worrell disappeared in August 2023 before he was scheduled to be sentenced for several felonies for his behavior during the riot. When told that he disappeared, the judge issued a bench warrant for his arrest.

Court records say that on January 6, he arrived at the Capitol wearing a tactical vest and holding pepper gel in hand. He warned officers as he passed not to make him go up against them.

Worrell was under house arrest after court records showed he complained about the treatment at the Washington, D.C., jail. The federal judge let him wait for his sentence while on house arrest. Prosecutors are seeking a 14-year prison sentence for him.