Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick sentenced to over 6 years in jail
Source: CNN Politics
CNN A man who assaulted United States Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick with pepper spray on January 6, 2021, was sentenced on Friday to 80 months behind bars.
Julian Khater pleaded guilty in September to two counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon. His co-defendant, George Tanios, pleaded guilty last summer to disorderly conduct and entering and remaining in a restricted building. Khater was also ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and $2,000 in restitution. Tanios was sentenced to time served and one year of supervised release. He previously spent more than five months behind bars.
The day after the attack, Sicknick died after suffering several strokes. Washington, DCs chief medical examiner, Francisco Diaz, determined that the officer died of natural causes and told The Washington Post that the riot and all that transpired played a role in his condition. Sicknicks family and partner were present for the sentencing and law enforcement officers dressed in uniform filled the courtroom.
According to the plea agreements, Tanios bought two cans of bear spray in preparation for his trip with Khater to Washington on January 6. During the Capitol attack, when the two men arrived near a line of police officers by the steps of the Capitol, Khater said to Tanios, Give me that bear s**t, according to the plea.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/27/politics/sicknick-capitol-attack-khater-tanios-sentencing
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Julian Khater pleaded guilty in September to two counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon. His co-defendant, George Tanios, pleaded guilty last summer to disorderly conduct and entering and remaining in a restricted building. Khater was also ordered to pay a $10,000 fine and $2,000 in restitution.
The day after the attack, Sicknick died after suffering several strokes. Washington, DC's chief medical examiner, Francisco Diaz, determined that the officer died of natural causes and told The Washington Post that the riot and "all that transpired played a role in his condition." Sicknick's family and partner were present for the sentencing and law enforcement officers dressed in uniform filled the courtroom.
According to the plea agreements, Tanios bought two cans of bear spray in preparation for his trip with Khater to Washington on January 6, 2021. During the Capitol attack, when the two men arrived near a line of police officers by the steps of the Capitol, Khater said to Tanios, "Give me that bear s**t," according to the plea.
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The day after the attack, Sicknick died after suffering several strokes. Washington, DC's chief medical examiner, Francisco Diaz, determined that the officer died of natural causes and told The Washington Post that the riot and "all that transpired played a role in his condition."
According to the plea agreements, Tanios bought two cans of bear spray in preparation for his trip with Khater to Washington on January 6, 2021. During the Capitol attack, when the two men arrived near a line of police officers by the steps of the Capitol, Khater said to Tanios, "Give me that bear s**t," according to the plea.
Khater took a white can of bear spray from Tanios's backpack, walked up to the line of officers and, as rioters started pulling on the bike rack barrier separating them and the police, Khater sprayed multiple officers - including Sicknick - who had to retreat from the line. After recovering from the bear spray attack, Sicknick continued to help protect the Capitol that day, according to court documents, remaining on duty until late into the evening.
sinkingfeeling
(51,278 posts)Bengus81
(6,907 posts)Rhiannon12866
(202,991 posts)onecaliberal
(32,489 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)against SO many of these insurrectionists. While 6 years is a whole long time, someone that says "Give me that bear shit" knew what was going on and should be held accountable for his actions. I'm would guess that Khater is thinking 'that's a whole lot of time' - but I'm not too sure that many of his fellow comrades will be less inclined to be more 'thoughtful' or 'fearful' as they plan their next round..... and until the DOJ starts making a SERIOUS impression on those that think that INSURRECTIONS are just a 'Legitimate Political Discourse' - we're gonna' see it all again.........
SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)RussBLib
(8,984 posts)....especially depending upon what prison you end up in. I wonder where most of these fools are serving time?
riversedge
(69,725 posts)mention where.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/3833744-judge-sentences-jan-6-rioter-who-pepper-sprayed-brian-sicknick-to-80-months-in-prison/
.............The government had asked the judge to sentence Khater to 90 months in prison, while Khaters attorneys asked for the nearly two years he already spent in jail to satisfy his sentence.
Khaters attorneys argued his anxiety disorder, harsh conditions at the jail and remorse following the riot merited the lower sentence.
Its not in my nature. Its not who I am, Khater told the judge just before he was sentenced.
Court documents state that Khater and co-defendant George Pierre Tanios traveled to D.C. together to attend former President Trumps rally near the White House before joining rioters on the Capitol grounds.
The Grand Illuminist
(1,306 posts)What cell and cell blocks these people will serve their time.
JT45242
(2,173 posts)That botched coroner report ...
He should have gotten the max. In a just world, they would have been charged with felony murder. There is plenty of case law that if someone dies because of the results of your felony, you can be charged with felony murder. They have used on people who died of heart attacks because the ambulance could not get to the person. Not a stretch to get to Sicknick's death.
If I were the family, I would have wanted a second autopsy done, because I do not believe that the bear spray wasn't the primary cause of his death.
irisblue
(32,829 posts)barbtries
(28,702 posts)but i think this is good. that's real time.
BumRushDaShow
(127,312 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)RussBLib
(8,984 posts)Not directly. And he wasn't charged with murder either.
Yeah, technicalities.
2naSalit
(86,059 posts)ancianita
(35,813 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)ancianita
(35,813 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)ancianita
(35,813 posts)If I'd thought you'd have been irked I would have just posted it to the whole thread.
Didn't mean to bother you.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)ancianita
(35,813 posts)DU gets a bit touchier in comments near the end of the day -- and most days have been pretty tough since long before Covid -- and so my all caps, which I usually don't do unless I'm frustrated with the same day-in, day-out venting or nitpicking or dissatisfaction about our leaders with no balancing comments of support for their accomplishments.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)entire Repuke party. They have sold their soul. If they had one in the first place, which I sincerely doubt! Take care
ancianita
(35,813 posts)doing. If we need a whipping boy, I say keep slamming the rethugs every minute of every day!
You take care, as well.
Evolve Dammit
(16,632 posts)Bengus81
(6,907 posts)This asshat according to his mouthpiece "suffers" from anxiety. I would have let him work it all out with a much longer sentence.
Bayard
(21,805 posts)That's all the time you get for murder these days?
Its an insult to Officer Sicknick's family, and memory.
ancianita
(35,813 posts)is not always the justice we want.
We need to support the judges trying hundreds of cases; we need to get behind the DOJ and prosecutors, or we leave them vulnerable to constant Koch Republican pressure like the DOJ was in the sedition trial Maddow relates in her ULTRA podcast.
That we keep voicing chronic dissatisfaction with Jan 6 rulings just runs interference for the anti-democracy forces around us. At the very least, it doesn't help.
Rhiannon12866
(202,991 posts)And you're right, we're weary and frustrated.
republianmushroom
(13,061 posts)demigoddess
(6,640 posts)Lunabell
(5,920 posts)He killed that man.
NBachers
(17,006 posts)Every one of these traitors engaged in a long chain of planning, logistics, purchasing, preparation, travel, and coordination with others to get where they committed the crime. It sure seems to me like all the events they engaged in beforehand were a conspiracy.
It should be good for several years of consecutive sentencing.
I am no lawyer, but I have seen conviction for conspiracy close up, and it seems neglectful that they are not pressing charges on it.
Ford_Prefect
(7,827 posts)If he wasn't a white SOB you'd have seen a much longer sentence.
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The Grand Illuminist
(1,306 posts)In the constitution.