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.

  • @[email protected]
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    108 months ago

    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! :-(

    • Flying Squid
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      78 months ago

      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.

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        8 months 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