A retired NYPD officer, seen shaking a tambourine and shouting “I’m a f------ animal” during the Jan. 6 insurrection on Capitol Hill in 2021, was convicted of felony and misdemeanor charges for her role in the armed breach.
Jurors in federal court in Washington, D.C., found Sara Carpenter, 53, of Richmond Hill, guilty on Thursday of civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, both felonies, and five misdemeanors after joining a violent mob of Donald Trump supporters who stormed the seat of American government.
Prosecutors had said Carpenter was captured on closed-circuit TV in the Capitol Rotunda and elsewhere in the building, where she pushed up against officers who were guarding a hallway to the Senate chamber.
