A 37-year-old man from Buffalo, New York, was sentenced to fifty months in prison for his involvement on January 6, 2021.
The man, Thomas Sibick, was charged on one count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding a police officer and two counts of robbery.
Sibick admitted he grabbed officer Michael Fanone’s police radio and badge shortly after Fanone had been pulled away from an entrance to the Capitol and shocked with a stun gun several times by another person.
“In an act of cowardice, [he] stripped me of my badge, the emblem of my duty and what I had dedicated my life to for the past 20 years,” Fanone said in court. “My radio was my lifeline; it was all I had in those moments to call for help. It was taken from me to be used as a trophy.”
Sibick apologized for his actions, asking the officer to forgive him.
From Newsmax:
Sibick was part of a group that formed on the Capitol's West Terrace, trying to push past a line of police officers guarding the entrance to the building, the Post reported. He got hold of a police riot shield passed through the crowd and posed for a photo with it. He stepped back to clear tear gas out of his eyes just as Fanone was pulled out of the police line and down the Capitol steps.
