Prosecutors Request 17-Year Sentence for Jan 6 Veteran

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For years, I covered riots, protests, and acts of violence by the left. It has been a constant in my work in defense of freedom. The left is never held accountable. Their free speech incldues burning down, looting cities and  beating up those with whom they disagree.  Compare the reality of Jan. 6 with what happened in Washington during Donald Trump’s inauguration as president on Jan. 20, 2017. Video taken in Washington on that day “exposes a coordinated attack on the 2017 inauguration of President Donald Trump,” including footage of “anarchists preparing for violent clashes with police (10:22), violent attacks on attendees (2:08), destruction of property (9:50), and the physical premeditated blockades that succeed in preventing voters from attending the Presidential Inauguration (3:29).” Yet amid all this violence, the establishment media pretended that nothing was amiss. No one said a word about people trying to interfere with the peaceful transition of power. The Jan. 20, 2017 rioters were Leftists, and so the establishment media shared their views, and did everything they could to bury what happened on that day.

The 2020 election was rigged. It is our Constitutional right – our G-d given right – to demonstrate against this crime against our freedoms.

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Prosecutors Request 17-Year Sentence for Jan 6 Vet

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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.

Prosecutors say Webster showed up in Washington, D.C., “armed and ready for battle.”

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“Not only did he pack his NYPD-issued bulletproof vest, but he also packed his ‘off duty’ firearm … [and] his military-issued rucksack containing Meals Ready-to-Eat, water bottles, and Gatorade,” they state in a sentencing memo.

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.

As Webster awaits sentencing, prosecutors have asked for 210 months — 17.5 years — of jail time for the former Marine and cop “for disgracing a democracy that he once fought honorably to protect and serve.”

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.

In early August, a judge sentenced Guy Wesley Reffitt, the first defendant to go on trial for the Jan. 6 attack, to more than seven years in prison.

According to the sentencing memo submitted by prosecutors Wednesday, Webster “served honorably” in the Marine Corps from 1985 to 1989, then went on to become a New York police officer from 1991 to 2011. These years of experience, prosecutors wrote, “render his violent assault of Officer Rathbun more troubling.”

Military.com reached out to the Marine Corps to verify Webster’s service history but did not hear back in time for publication.

“Notwithstanding his background and training, Webster did not try to de-escalate the situation or leave the premises,” prosecutors wrote. “Instead, he led the charge.”

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