Ex-NYPD cop Thomas Webster hit with longest sentence in Capitol riot
A former NYPD officer who assaulted a Washington, DC police officer throughout the Jan. 6 riot was slapped Thursday with the longest sentence but within the Capitol assault.
Thomas Webster will spend the following 10 years behind bars for his position within the 2021 siege, federal Choose Amit Mehta dominated — whereas ripping him on the listening to.
“What you probably did that day, it’s exhausting to actually put into phrases,” the choose instructed Webster, according to NBC News.
“The opposite sufferer was democracy,” the choose added.
Mehta instructed the disgraced policeman that he’s shocked each time he watches video footage of the assault, which exhibits Webster trying to beat the officer with a flag pole and ripping his gasoline masks off.
On the Jan. 6 rebellion, Webster swung a flag pole wildly at Metropolitan Police Officer Noah Rathbun – however missed the cop and smashed it into a motorbike rack close to the US Capitol, video of the altercation exhibits.
Webster, a Goshen, NY, resident, then charged at Rathbun, wrestling him to the bottom whereas pulling on the cop’s gasoline masks.
A jury convicted Webster of six counts in Might, together with assaulting Rathbun with a harmful weapon.
Webster, who retired from the NYPD in 2011, drove to Washington alone that day and joined the violent mob that attacked the Capitol in an try to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election.
The fallen lawman beforehand served on former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s safety element when he was on the pressure.
With Publish Wires
