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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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.
Where is Ray Epps? Maybe the Marine was doing a demonstration for Ray Epps.
The police and judicial system is the criminal gang.
Not as often as cop killers. And not all cops that kill have done so without justification.
I notice that you did not contradict me.
..........unless Trump is elected!
5 minutes after Trump is sworn in, this x Marine is OUT ! with a full pardon!
I thought it would be evident by the 2020 election that they are not going to let Trump win.
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.
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