Former Police Officer Gets 7 Years in Prison in Jan. 6 Case – By Lloyd Billingsley (Front Page Mag) / Aug 15. 2022
For carrying a “large wooden stick” on January 6 — and for things the ex-officer said and believed.
Former police officer Thomas Robertson, who according to CBS News, “stormed the U.S. Capitol” on January 6, 2021, will spend more than seven years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
Robertson, 49, was charged with interfering with police officers and “entering a restricted area with a dangerous weapon, a large wooden stick.”
The seven-year sentence, handed down last Thursday, matches the longest prison term among the Jan. 6 cases to date. Its severity was not entirely the result of events on that day.
“You were not some bystander who just got swept up in the crowd,” said Obama judge Christopher Cooper. “It really seems as though you think of partisan politics as war and that you continue to believe these conspiracy theories.” As CBS reported, Robertson “clung to baseless conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from then-president Donald Trump.”
