WASHINGTON, D.C. — A former New York City police officer will spend the next 10 years behind bars for his role in the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
56-year-old Thomas Webster was sentenced Thursday to a decade behind bars after a jury found him guilty of attacking officer Noah Rathbun and rushing the Capitol Building. Bodycam footage shows Webster hitting the officer with a metal flagpole and then pushing the officer to the ground. The footage then shows Webster choking Rathbun.
The marine veteran received the steepest penalty thus far of any other supporter of the former President who stormed the Capitol.
Charges against Webster included assault on a police officer; entering and remaining on restricted grounds with a dangerous weapon; engaging in physical violence on restricted grounds with a weapon, and engaging in violence on Capitol grounds.
This came as President Joe Biden took to prime-time television to lambaste Trump Republicans calling them a “danger to democracy.”
“Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” said the President during his address to the nation.
