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A Colorado man who helped other rioters drag a police officer into a mob storming the U.S. Capitol was sentenced on Thursday to more than five years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

Jeffrey Sabol ripped a baton from an officer’s hands before pulling another officer into the crowd outside the Capitol, allowing other rioters to assault the officer with weapons.

Sabol, 54, told U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras that he knows he is “100%” guilty and would have apologized directly to the officers whom he attacked if they had attended the hearing.

“I accept whatever it is you hand me,” Sabol said. “I’ll be honest: I deserve it.”

The judge sentenced Sabol to five years and three months behind bars. He’ll get credit for the three years and two months that he has already spent in jail since his arrest.

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[–] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 64 points 2 years ago (1 children)

drag a cop into a mob during an attempt to overthrow the government.

five years.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Amazing how lenient we are with people staging a coup.

We were lenient with the Confederates too.

Always leniency when it's white people...

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unless they are hippies. Basically the "in" vs. "outside" of group dynamics - like fellow authoritarian vs. liberal.

[–] dalekcaan@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin. And then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

-- former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So many things to come out of that administration... including admirers like Roger Stone who then turned it into a blueprint for Trump to follow to make authoritarianism great again! :-(

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Roger Stone goes beyond "admirer." When you get Nixon's face tattooed on your back, it's because you're also jerking off to him every night.

[–] OpenStars@startrek.website 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bold of us here to presume that he could ever get it up but yeah, it's definitely some kind of infatuation - "when I grow up, I wanna be just like daddy Nixon!":-P