{"id":157383,"date":"2024-06-02T09:05:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T13:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=157383"},"modified":"2024-06-01T19:25:44","modified_gmt":"2024-06-01T23:25:44","slug":"marine-veteran-gets-5-years-in-prison-for-injuring-capitol-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=157383","title":{"rendered":"Marine veteran gets 5 years in prison for injuring Capitol police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Alligators-in-Congress-02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-157384\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Alligators-in-Congress-02-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Alligators-in-Congress-02-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Alligators-in-Congress-02-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Alligators-in-Congress-02-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Alligators-in-Congress-02-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Alligators-in-Congress-02.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John George Todd III, Marine veteran, was at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. During the riot, he struggled with a police officer. He pushed against officers inside the Rotunda, ignored police orders, and screamed profanities at them. A police officer attempted to take his flag away from him by reaching for the pole. The pole was made of fiberglass. So, when they wrestled for the pole, it broke and injured the police officer&#8217;s hand. Todd got sentenced to five years in prison.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From Associated Press:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;This is not a patriot. This is not conduct becoming of a Marine,&#8221; the judge told Todd, 34.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors recommended a prison sentence of 12 years and seven months for Todd, who traveled from his Missouri home to attend then-President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Stop the Steal&#8221; rally in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the country approaches anther contentious election year, one that will see a rematch of the 2020 Presidential election that was at issue for the rioters on January 6, every January 6 sentencing sends a message about the importance of democratic values and the rule of law,&#8221; prosecutors wrote.<\/p>\n<p>After entering the Capitol, Todd repeatedly pushed against officers inside the Rotunda, ignored commands to leave and screamed profanities at police.<\/p>\n<p>Todd was carrying a fiberglass pole attached to a flag. When a Metropolitan Police Department officer tried to grab it from him, Todd and the officer wrestled for control of the pole until it splintered and cut the officer&#8217;s hand.<\/p>\n<p>The officer, Noah Rathbun, needed seven stitches and missed nine days of work. Todd argued that the officer&#8217;s injuries were self-inflicted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kunzelman, M. (2024, June 1). Man who injured police officer during Capitol riot is sentenced to 5 years in prison. Associated Press. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/john-george-todd-iii-capitol-riot-sentencing-4458113cb9bd8cb89c4d67a5fe05b739\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John George Todd III, Marine veteran, was at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. During &hellip; <a title=\"Marine veteran gets 5 years in prison for injuring Capitol police officer\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=157383\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marine veteran gets 5 years in prison for injuring Capitol police officer<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[430,469,613,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2020-election","category-donald-trump","category-joe-biden","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=157383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=157383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=157383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=157383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}