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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This is a ridiculous sentence. You don’t get that much time for rape or serious assault anywhere in the country. Absolutely outrageous.
The guy should do some time but this really out of bounds.
Stay out of DC.
Prayer
Paul
Peter
Stephen
Is this sentencing in line with past cases involving these kinds of charges? I’d tend to doubt it.
The deep state marxist are pulling kgb/stasis tactics to destroy their enemy. They care not about your life.
Justice demands a change of venue in these cases, a change to middle America. You probably have a better chance of obtaining justice in Zimbabwe than before a DC leftist urban ghetto jury.
I’d be surprised if anyone without a series of prior arrests ever got 10 years for assaulting a police officer.
The stinking communist bastards are on a roll! The J6 farce and political jihad is just another part of the picture...
”In your face” is our communist masters' favorite tool to rattle the chains of tyranny that they have wrapped around our necks...
No Big Deal!
Our communist masters know that the pathetically servile and indolent Aamerican people will just continue to roll over and spread their collective cheeks...
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