Prosecutors relied on his extensive video documentation of the breach.
Footage showing Dovid Schwartzberg entering the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021.A Brooklyn man who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th – and then waved in other rioters through a broken window – has been sentenced to 45 days in prison.
Prosecutors relied on Schwartzberg's extensive video documentation of the breach, which he uploaded to a since-deleted TikTok account. The videos showed him jumping through a broken window of the U.S. Capitol building, then encouraging other members of the mob to follow his lead through the opening. He also bragged in a text message that he was “the first guy in history to have a cigarette in congress,” prosecutors said.
“While I now recognize the wrongful nature of walking through a broken window to enter the Capitol building and encouraging others to do so as well,” he wrote, “at the time, I really didn’t give it too much thought as I was caught up in the moment and the energy of the crowd.”
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