WASHINGTON, D.C. (CVILLERIGHTNOW) – A man who pleaded guilty to burning an object with an intent to intimidate the night before 2017’s deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville will serve nearly five years in prison for assaulting police officers who were guarding the U.S. Capitol during the 2021 insurrection.

Tyler Bradley Dykes pleaded guilty in Albemarle Circuit Court in May of 2023, for which he served four months. He was one among three attendees to be indicted six years after the fact.

On Friday, July 19, 2024, a federal judge sentenced Dykes to 57 months and fined him $20,000 for grabbing a police riot shield from the hands of two police officers and using it to push his way through police lines at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The Bluffton, South Carolina, man who was an active-duty Marine at the time pleaded guilty in April to assault charges.

He was discharged from the Marines for “participating in extremist behavior.”Prosecutors also accused Dykes of giving Seig Heil (Hail to victory!) salute, noting that Dykes quoted Adolph Hitler before the Jan. 6 attack and said during the hearing that Dykes had participated in a training for the neo-Nazi accelerationist group, The Base.

They also pointed out that Dykes performed the Seig Heil salute while carrying a torch in Charlottesville.