Nolan Cooke: Jan. 6 rioter sentenced after his GoPro showed him on front line rushing police
Source: NBC News
Jan. 6 rioter sentenced after his GoPro showed him on front line rushing police
Nolan Cooke was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for his role in last year's attack on the Capitol.
June 10, 2022, 4:57 PM EDT
By Ryan J. Reilly
WASHINGTON — A Texas man who had a GoPro strapped to his body as he committed crimes at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was sentenced Friday to a year and a day in federal prison.
Nolan Cooke, a 24-year-old from Sherman, Texas, was sentenced by Judge Royce C. Lamberth after pleading guilty in March to a felony charge of civil disorder. Prosecutors said Cooke "helped lead the charge of rioters who broke through the police line guarding the east side of the Capitol building during the electoral vote certification" and "later bragged that he was one of the first to break through the barricade."
Video evidence presented in court and released to journalists at the request of NBC News shows Cooke repeatedly clashing with police officers who were overwhelmed by the mob. He helped break through the initial barricade while yelling at officers who struggled to control the pro-Trump rioters.
“We’re coming through, we’re coming through!” Cooke yells in the video. “This is our house. This is our f-----g house, man,” he adds, before telling officers to “join” the mob.
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Just think of all of the classes he's missing after being named a Rhodes Scholar....... Oh, wait, that was Road-kill scholar - you know, not the sharpest blade in the drawer.
He actually filmed his own participation in the insurrection? Hell, a McDonald's plastic knife is sharper than that! 
Look at any video clip of that day and evening and you'll see the many hundreds of cell phones held high recording themselves and others as they committed crimes, trashing the place, hanging from the gallery and rifling through desks in the Senate chamber, Parliamentarian's office and office of the Speaker of the House. Many of them were live-streaming and they uploaded the stuff and posted online...
To them, they were "making history".
Until they had that "oops" revelation. 
As a note, there were also a myriad of regular reporters in there who were reporting on the Electoral College process and who ended up capturing their own footage of what was going on. Meanwhile reporters outside, were getting attacked and I recall one video clip where the insurrectionist thugs absolutely destroyed AP's video/broadcast setup.
