Trump fan sentenced to more than seven years in prison for assaulting a police officer during the assault on Capitol Hill

By Ryan J. Reilly -

A supporter of former President Donald Trump who assaulted a Washington, DC police officer and another officer during the assault on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in prison.

Kyle Young, 38, of Iowa,

in May to one felony charge of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers.

His attorney said he had been "injected" with lies about the 2020 election and that Young had asked his Facebook followers to join him in "stopping" the election.

Young took his 16-year-old son to the US Congressional assault and was with him when he assaulted now-former police officer Mike Fanone.

The man admitted using a strobe light to disorient police, helping throw a loudspeaker at officers, grabbing Fanone's wrist when the officer was restrained by a mob, and assaulting another officer.

Kyle Young, lower right, in the Capitol tunnel on January 6, 2021. Via NBC News

La sentencia de 86 meses contra Young fue el término que los fiscales federales solicitaron. Los fiscales sostuvieron que el hombre participó en el asalto en el túnel inferior oeste del Capitolio, donde se produjeron "algunos de los actos de violencia más salvajes" ese día. 

Morris Moore, oficial de la policía del Capitolio de Estados Unidos, que fue arrastrado por la turba, declaró ante la corte este martes y dijo que las acciones de los asaltantes le recordaron a la película 300 o a una película de zombies. Dijo, además, que ha tenido pesadillas sobre su enfrentamiento con la turba.

“Fue casi como una guerra”, dijo Moore. “Fue una locura.

Kyle Young en el Capitolio el 6 de enero de 2021.Vía NBC News

Former police officer Fanone, who also testified, said Young had prevented him from finishing his law enforcement career.

And he added that he believed the man should have received a 10-year prison sentence.

Young addressed the former police officer directly before hearing his sentence and apologized.

He said that

"If I could take it back, I would," Young said, adding that he was not proud of what he did that day and regrets it every day.

"Whatever they give me as punishment, I accept it, and I

," he told the judge.

More than 850 people have been charged in connection with the January 6 bombing and more than 350 have pleaded guilty.

The longest sentence, 10 years in prison, was given to a former New York police officer who assaulted a New York policeman with a flagpole and then lied under oath about the assault.