Feds want 17 years for J6 'eye gouger' who bludgeoned cop with flagpole

[In It to Win It]

The United States Department of Justice is asking for a 17.5-year prison sentence for former New York Police Department Officer Thomas Webster, who was convicted in May of assaulting a police officer during the attack.

"Webster, 56, of Goshen, N.Y., assaulted D.C. police officer Noah Rathbun with an aluminum Marine Corps flagpole, jurors found. The panel of eight women and four men also found Webster guilty of interfering with police in a riot and trespassing, disorderly conduct and violent conduct while carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon on Capitol grounds," The Washington Post reported on May 2. "Webster, who previously served on the protective security detail of former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, was the first of about 150 defendants charged with assaulting an officer to take his case to a jury and the first to argue self-defense."

https://www.rawstory.com/thomas-webster-j6-nypd-prison/

[Blue Owl]

1. Shit, round it up to 20 as far as I'm concerned...

[Jim__]

2. Self-defense? I wonder how many people he beat-up like that when he was a cop.

He doesn't want to be locked up with people who committed "inner-city crimes."

Lock him up!

[justhanginon]

3. Can a judge sentence more time than asked for by the prosecution?

Wouldn't bother me at all to see that in this case.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

6. Yes, I believe,

a judge doesn't have to go by what the prosecution wants, he has to go by what the minimum to maximum sentence is for each crime convicted of.

There are DU members who are lawyers, they can better answer, but I think I pretty much understand that aspect of it.

Personally, IMO, the judge should impose the max sentence for each crime he was convicted of and have to serve them consecutively, he was a cop, he fucking knew better.

[onecaliberal]

4. Self defense? These people are stupid as hell.

[Maraya1969]

5. His lawyer complained the victim was "mocking" the rioters

Webster's lawyer had complained the victim was "mocking" the rioters and his legal team said he did not deserve to be incarcerated with people who committed "inner-city crimes."
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What a jerk!

[MarineCombatEngineer]

7. Hmmm,

hey Mr. Webster, racist much?

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. More, please.

[2naSalit]

9. Not long enough!

[Solly Mack]

10. K&R

[roamer65]

11. More like 50 years.

[liberalla]

12. K&R

Not long enough!