Thomas Webster was sentenced in federal court on Thursday, four months after becoming the first of the January 6th defendants to be convicted of felony assault of an officer.
An image of body camera footage showing Thomas Webster at the January 6th riot.A former NYPD officer will spend 10 years in prison for his attack on police during the January 6th insurrection, the longest term handed down so far to any of the U.S. Capitol rioters.
Videos showed him charging at a group of officers guarding the capitol, slamming a Marine Corp flag pole onto a barricade, then tackling D.C. police officer Noah Rathbun. During the trial, Rathbun testified that Webster ripped off his gas mask, choking him with the chinstrap while forcing him to inhale tear gas.
“Not knowing where [an attacker’s] hands are [is] scary, and feeling a tug on your gun belt or something like that, I kind of just, like, wanted him to see my hands,” Webster testified.
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