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Joshua Pruitt: Proud Boy who came within seconds of Sen. Schumer on January 6 sentenced to 55 months in prison

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“You were at the forefront of that mob,” Judge Timothy Kelly said before handing down his sentence Monday, adding that Pruitt and the mob’s actions that day “snapped our previously unbroken tradition of the peaceful transition of power.”

Pruitt, who pleaded guilty in early June to obstructing an official proceeding, was part of a Proud Boys group message where members discussed plans to march to the Capitol and use violence on January 6, according to prosecutors.

“Their plans were not limited to fighting Antifa: they anticipated going to the Capitol to stop the certification of the election and confronting police who might try to stand in their way,” prosecutors wrote in court documents.

At the time of the riot, Pruitt was merely a recruit waiting to be officially inducted in the far-right group.

“To join the Proud Boys, the defendant would do whatever it takes,” one of the prosecutors, Alexis Jane Loeb, told Kelly during the sentencing hearing.

During the attack, Pruitt was one of the first of the mob to enter several areas of the Capitol and destroyed a large sign in the building, throwing it across a room, which prosecutors argued was meant to stir up the mob inside

Schumer’s protective detail told prosecutors that they had to change their evacuation plan when they saw Pruitt in the building, who was just four or five seconds from the senator. Instead of exiting through an elevator, Schumer and his detail ran down a ramp and shut the double doors behind them, prosecutors say.

After storming the Capitol and being arrested later that day, Pruitt was sworn into the Proud Boys on President Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day, two weeks later.

Before being sentenced, Pruitt, dressed in a prison jumpsuit with 1776 tattooed across the knuckles of his right hand, told Kelly that he still believed the 2020 election was stolen but admitted he broke the law.

“I wish I would have been watching it from a restaurant,” Pruitt said of January 6, which he added was not “a good day.”

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Videos of children being used in Tesla safety test pulled from YouTube

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Children being used in videos to “prove” Tesla’s Full Self-Driving autonomous technology are in violation of YouTube’s policies.

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YouTube has removed a number of videos from its platform showing children being used to test pedestrian avoidance technology on Tesla cars.

In a bid to defend the controversial autonomous driving software, known as Full Self-Driving (FSD), Tesla fanatics took to the video website to post clips of their vehicles manoeuvring around children at various speeds.

YouTube has now pulled down the videos, claiming they are a violation of the platform’s policies.

“YouTube doesn’t allow content showing a minor participating in dangerous activities or encouraging minors to do dangerous activities,” a spokesperson for YouTube told US business news outlet CNBC.

“Upon review, we determined that the videos raised to us by CNBC violate our ‘harmful and dangerous’ policies, and as a result we removed the content.”

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YouTube is owned by US tech giant Alphabet (formerly known as Google), which also owns autonomous technology development company and robotaxi operator, Waymo.

“We don’t allow content showing or encouraging minors in harmful situations that may lead to injury, including dangerous stunts, dares, or pranks,” the company spokesperson said.

Critics of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software had posted their own videos allegedly showing the technology failing, with the electric cars hitting mannequins designed to look like children.

While advocates showed FSD was not engaged correctly in some test scenarios, others claimed the dummies were not realistic enough to be recognised by the vehicles.

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“No one should risk their life, or the life of anyone else, to test the performance of vehicle technology,” the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said at the time.

“Consumers should never attempt to create their own test scenarios or use real people, and especially children, to test the performance of vehicle technology.”

This week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the company would soon raise the price of its Full Self-Driving feature to $US15,000 ($AU21,700) – an increase of 25 per cent.

Ben Zachariah

Ben Zachariah is an experienced writer and motoring journalist from Melbourne, having worked in the automotive industry for more than 15 years. Ben was previously an interstate truck driver and completed his MBA in Finance in early 2021. He is considered an expert in the area of classic car investment.

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