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A federal judge sentenced a man who assaulted law enforcement officers with poles during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol -- and continued to scuffle with officers even after being briefly detained that day -- to more than five years in prison on Tuesday. Mark Ponder pleaded guilty in April to assaulting law enforcement and has been held without bond since March 2021. The 56-year-old Washington, DC, resident also was sentenced to three years of supervised release. Ponder remained on Capital Hill grounds for nearly three hours on January 6. After being detained for attacking officers released earlier in the day amid the chaos, Ponder engaged in a second violent assault in one of the most brutal attacks between officers and rioters that day. He later told federal agents that police were "part of the problem" during the riot. Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, one of the US Capitol Police officers that Ponder attacked, testified Tuesday at Ponder's sentencing committee. "He didn't care whether I was a police officer or not. He didn't care I had a family or not," Gonell said. Gonell asked DC District Judge Tanya Chutkan: "Please do not fall for his plea because that day he didn't care about me" and described Ponder's explanation that he got caught up in the moment as "BS." Gonell, who has emerged as a prominent voice speaking publicly about the attack and its effects on law enforcement, told the court he was injured by other rioters and blocked attacks from Ponder with his riot shield during the assault. Before handing down her sentence, Chutkan said that Ponder "wasn't defending himself or anyone else; he was trying to injure those officers." Chutkan's sentence went several months beyond the Justice Department's request of 60 months and, during Tuesday's hearing, the judge said she even considered going above the maximum guideline recommendation of 71 months. "I wasn't thinking," Ponder told the court Tuesday. "That day I wasn't thinking, and I'm extremely sorry for that." Ponder said he had been pepper sprayed and got caught up in "the tensions of that day" and asked the judge for mercy. #trumpsupporter #terrorist #capitalattack https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgh3pYoPEUX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

The man who police say rammed his car into a security barrier at the U.S. Capitol on Friday and was fatally shot by police after emerging from the vehicle with a knife was a lifelong athlete who in recent months had shown growing support on social media for Louis Farrakhan and the extremist Nation of Islam group.

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