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Prosecutors Ask for 17-Year Jail Sentence for Vet Who Assaulted a Cop with Marine Corps Flag on Jan. 6
Yahoo! ^ | August 25, 2022 | Konstantin Toropin

Posted on 08/27/2022 10:08:36 AM PDT by Eagle Forgotten

Federal prosecutors have asked that a former Marine and retired New York Police Department officer receive a 17-year sentence for his actions during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 -- actions that included him assaulting another police officer with a Marine Corps flagpole he had brought along.

Thomas Webster, 56, was one of the first people to be charged for his role in the violence the day Congress was set to certify the results of the presidential election. He was arrested on six charges on Feb. 21, 2021. He was found guilty on all counts -- all but one were felonies -- on May 2, 2022.

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Confronted by police, Webster challenged Metropolitan Police Department Officer Noah Rathbun to a fight before breaking through the police barricade, tackling Rathbun to the ground and choking him.

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If the judge grants the request, which prosecutors noted was "at the low end" of the guidelines, Webster will receive the longest sentence handed down to a Capitol rioter to date.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: crime; january6
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To: Eagle Forgotten

How badly was the cop injured? That’s the only variable that should decide the Marine’s sentence. Seventeen years is only fitting if the cop’s still on a respirator. But then we’re dealing with The Big Guy’s Department of Just Us.


21 posted on 08/27/2022 1:54:49 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: Husker24

Where is Ray Epps? Maybe the Marine was doing a demonstration for Ray Epps.


22 posted on 08/27/2022 2:02:02 PM PDT by chopperk
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To: Eagle Forgotten

The police and judicial system is the criminal gang.


23 posted on 08/27/2022 2:43:34 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: NorthMountain
"Killer cops get off with no punishment at all."

Not as often as cop killers. And not all cops that kill have done so without justification.

24 posted on 08/27/2022 2:57:03 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: mass55th

I notice that you did not contradict me.


25 posted on 08/27/2022 3:01:32 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: thegagline

..........unless Trump is elected!

5 minutes after Trump is sworn in, this x Marine is OUT ! with a full pardon!


26 posted on 08/27/2022 6:58:05 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Cen-Tejas

I thought it would be evident by the 2020 election that they are not going to let Trump win.


27 posted on 08/27/2022 7:03:57 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis )
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To: Eagle Forgotten

17 years is roughly twice the length of the sentence Dan White got for killing George Moscone and Harvey Milk. I guess the Marine did not use the Twinkie defense.


28 posted on 08/27/2022 7:13:43 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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