Prosecutors Seek 17+ Years for Ex-NYPD Officer in Jan. 6 Riots
Assistant U.S. Attorney Hava Mirell wrote that former Marine and 20-year police veteran Thomas Webster disgraced the democracy that he once fought to protect and serve by assaulting an officer and breaching the police line at the lower west plaza in D.C. during the capitol riots.
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The Department of Justice is seeking a sentence of 210 months for Thomas Webster, a veteran of the Marine Corps and former 20-year NYPD officer who assaulted and choked a DC police officer during the Capitol riot, 13NewsNow reports. Webster was convicted of six counts by a jury in May, including a felony count for assaulting a police officer with a dangerous weapon. Webster was seen on bodycam footage using a metal flag pole with a Marine flag on it as a weapon.
In the sentencing memo, Assistant U.S. Attorney Hava Arin Levenson Mirell used Webster’s attempts in court to justify his assault by pointing to his military and police service history as evidence that his history of service should not be considered to reduce his sentence. Instead, the DOJ described Webster as “disgracing” a democracy that he once fought to protect and serve. “It is particularly disturbing that a former NYPD officer, once responsible for manning bike-back barricades and protecting dignitaries, would help lead the breach of the barricades outside the U.S. Capitol,” Mirell wrote, “It is also disturbing that a former Marine would use his U.S. Marine Corps flag as a deadly and dangerous weapon during an attack on our democracy.”
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