A retired New York City cop and former Marine was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for assaulting police at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the longest sentence for crimes connected to the riot.
Thomas Webster was convicted May 2 of six criminal counts for assaulting a Washington Metropolitan Police Officer and attempting to hit officers with a metal flagpole. Federal prosecutors said Webster tackled the officer, choking him with the chinstrap of his gas mask, and led the assault on a line of police defending the Capitol.
U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta sentenced Webster, 56, in a hearing in Washington federal court, court records show.
