Posted on 09/01/2022 1:31:54 PM PDT by Coronal
A federal judge on Thursday handed down the longest sentence to date in a prosecution stemming from the January 6 attack on the Capitol, ordering former New York City cop Thomas Webster to spend 10 years years behind bars for assaulting a police officer during the insurrection.
Judge Amit Mehta issued the sentence four months after a jury in Washington, DC, readily rejected Webster's claims that he acted in self-defense on January 6. During the weeklong trial, prosecutors played bodycam footage and other video that showed Webster confronting a police officer along bike racks outside the Capitol and then repeatedly slamming a metal flag pole — bearing the Marine Corps flag — into the metal barrier between them.
The video showed Webster later breaching the bike racks and tackling the officer, Noah Rathbun, to the ground, where he pressed against his face mask.
A retired Marine, Webster served on the protective detail of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg during his tenure as a police officer. At his trial, Webster took the stand to testify in his own defense and said the officer hit him in the face like a "freight train." Webster argued he was merely trying to protect himself from a "rogue cop" and said he pressed into the gas mask so the office could "see my hands."
But Rathbun testified that he only made contact with Webster's face incidentally while gesturing for him to back up.
The jury appeared to quickly dispense with that defense. After only a few hours of deliberation, the jury found Webster guilty on all six charges he faced, including disorderly conduct with a dangerous weapon and trespassing on restricted Capitol grounds.
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Meanwhile, cops are assaulted in cities throughout the country and the DAs refuse to press charges.
10 years? Who says he can’t get a fair trial in DC.
How can this stand? Shame on every one of us.
Murderers get less than this in DC.
10 years? really?
He should have shot and killed a photographer on a movie set, no jail time for that.
Judge Amit Mehta issued the sentence four months after a jury in Washington, DC, readily rejected Webster’s claims that he acted in self-defense on January 6.
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10 years? That’s insane, but it was a rat judge and rat jury so it’s what we can expect. They would have executed him if the statute allowed for a death sentence.
Why is it an "insurrection" when it's conservatives voicing their issues, but it's a "peaceful protest" when BLM and Antifa torch a city?
Two words: Corrupt media
Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment XIV
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
all the sentences are getting longer because we are not PROTESTING the imprisonment of these political prisoners!
So, there is a federal law against assaulting a bike rack?
These are political prisoners. Fk that Griner chick in Russia. We are now much more oppressive.
Why? Did you help the bad guys?
Were you maybe hundreds of miles away?
Shame WHY?
Global warming.
Life’s actions can be a bitch some times and bring on results
that are life changing whether for the good or bad. So be it.
This isn’t justice. This is political.
And we should not accept it.
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