Key takeaways:
- Thomas Sibick, 37, pleaded guilty in March for his role in the attack on Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone.
- Judge Amy Berman Jackson noted that the badge was a “symbol of (Fanone’s) service to the city and his country,” and that the attack was an assault on the institutions of democracy.
- Jackson ultimately sentenced Sibick to 50 months in prison, and ordered him to pay $1,000 in restitution to Fanone.
A Buffalo man has been sentenced to 50 months in prison for forcibly removing the badge and radio of a beaten Washington, D.C., police officer during the U.S. Capitol siege on Jan. 6, 2021.
Thomas Sibick, 37, pleaded guilty in March for his role in the attack on Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone. In a letter to the judge, Sibick said he takes full responsibility for his “uncivilized display of reckless behavior” and expressed remorse for the trauma Fanone experienced.
At the sentencing hearing on Friday, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Sibick had stripped Fanone of “everything that badge represented” during the Capitol riot. She noted that the badge was a “symbol of (Fanone’s) service to the city and his country,” and that the attack was an assault on the institutions of democracy.
Fanone, who has described fighting for his life to defend the Capitol as lawmakers inside fled from the angry mob, spoke at the hearing and urged Jackson to sentence Sibick to a prison term.
Jackson ultimately sentenced Sibick to 50 months in prison, noting that his actions were “not as some would make you believe legitimate political discourse.” She also ordered Sibick to pay $1,000 in restitution to Fanone.
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