{"id":51220,"date":"2022-04-25T18:40:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2022\/04\/25\/marine-veteran-cop-faces-jury-trial-on-capitol-riot-charges\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:45:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:45:32","slug":"marine-veteran-cop-faces-jury-trial-on-capitol-riot-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2022\/04\/25\/marine-veteran-cop-faces-jury-trial-on-capitol-riot-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine veteran, cop faces jury trial on Capitol riot charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jurors have heard \u2014 and rejected \u2014 an array of excuses and arguments from the first rioters to be tried for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2021\/01\/22\/capitol-police-we-didnt-order-national-guard-troops-to-move-to-parking-garage\/\">storming the U.S. Capitol<\/a> on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next jury to get a Capitol riot case could hear another novel defense this week at the trial of a Marine Corps veteran and retired New York City police officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.228848\/gov.uscourts.dcd.228848.1.1_1.pdf\">Thomas Webster<\/a>, a 20-year veteran of the New York Police Department, has claimed he was acting in self-defense when he tackled a police officer who was trying to protect the Capitol from a mob that day. Webster\u2019s lawyer also has argued that he was exercising his First Amendment free speech rights when he shouted profanities at police that day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jury selection began on Monday and is expected to last most of the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Webster, 56, is the fourth Capitol riot defendant to get a jury trial. Each has presented a distinct line of defense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An Ohio man who stole a coat rack from a Capitol office testified he was \u201cfollowing presidential orders\u201d from Donald Trump. An off-duty police officer from Virginia claimed he only entered the Capitol to retrieve a fellow officer. A lawyer for a Texas man who confronted Capitol police accused prosecutors of rushing to judgment against somebody prone to exaggerating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those defenses didn\u2019t sway the juries at their respective trials. Collectively, a total of 36 jurors unanimously convicted the three rioters of all 17 counts in their indictments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Webster faces the same fate if a federal judge\u2019s blistering words are any guide. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who will preside over Webster\u2019s trial, has described his videotaped conduct as \u201camong the most indefensible and reprehensible\u201d that the judge has seen among Jan. 6, 2021, cases, with \u201cno real defense for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou were a police officer and you should have known better,\u201d Mehta told Webster during a bond hearing in June 2021, according to a transcript.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But a dozen jurors, not the judge, will decide the case against Webster, who retired from the NYPD in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2022\/02\/18\/marine-reservist-charged-in-capitol-riot-now-accused-in-fake-vaccine-card-scam\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22048836601568.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Marine reservist charged in Capitol riot now accused in fake vaccine card scam<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Federal authorities charged a Marine Corps reservist and a nurse with scheming to steal, forge and sell hundreds of coronavirus vaccination cards.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A wealth of video evidence and self-incriminating behavior by riot defendants has given prosecutors the upper hand in many cases. Mary McCord, a Georgetown University Law Center professor and former Justice Department official, said jurors often won\u2019t have to rely on witness testimony or circumstantial evidence because videos captured much of the violence and destruction on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I was a prosecutor trying cases, I would have loved to have had cases where the entire crime was on video,\u201d she said. \u201cThat just doesn\u2019t happen that often. But for jurors, it can be very powerful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Webster\u2019s trial is the sixth overall. In a pair of bench trials, a different federal judge heard testimony without a jury before acquitting one defendant and partially acquitting another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump nominee who <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/capitol-siege-biden-new-mexico-electoral-college-riots-6029c68ddf47a1b73fe75f383ff65f49\">acquitted Matthew Martin of all charges<\/a>, said it was reasonable for the New Mexico man to believe that police allowed him to enter the Capitol. In the first bench trial, McFadden convicted <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/capitol-siege-biden-new-mexico-riots-presidential-elections-7cf8b8a96a39bde8f6966e47cc37ff46\">New Mexico elected official Couy Griffin<\/a> of illegally entering restricted Capitol grounds but acquitted him of engaging in disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephen Saltzburg, a George Washington Law School professor and former Justice Department official, said it may be difficult for prosecutors to secure convictions against defendants who merely entered the Capitol and didn\u2019t exhibit any violent or destructive behavior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think the people with the best chances are those who say, \u2018I was just there and I got swept up with everybody else.\u2019\u201d Saltzburg said. \u201cThe government is going to have to have some way to show there\u2019s more than that or the government will lose.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Webster brought a gun and a Marine Corps flag attached to a metal pole when he traveled alone to Washington from his home in Florida, New York, a village approximately 70 miles northwest of New York City. He wore his NYPD-issued bulletproof vest but says he left the pistol in his hotel room when he headed to the Jan. 6, 2021, rally where Trump spoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police body camera video captured Webster\u2019s confrontation outside the Capitol with a line of officers, including one identified only as \u201cOfficer N.R.\u201d in court papers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The unnamed Metropolitan Police Department officer described the encounter in a written statement. The officer said Webster swung the flagpole at him in a downward chopping motion, hitting a metal barricade, then charged at him with clenched fists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe pushed me to the ground and attempted to violently tear away my gas mask and ballistic helmet. This caused me to choke and gasp for air before another participant at the riot helped me to my feet,\u201d the officer wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The officer said he retreated behind a police line after Webster pinned him to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHis actions, attack and targeted assault caused me to fear for my life and could have easily left my wife and two small children without a husband and father,\u201d the officer wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense attorney James Monroe has claimed the unnamed officer gestured toward Webster, \u201cinviting him to engage in a fight,\u201d before reaching over a police barrier and punching Webster in his face. Webster \u201cused that amount of force he reasonably believed necessary to protect himself\u201d by tackling the officer to the ground, Monroe said in a court filing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mehta, however, said the video doesn\u2019t show Webster getting punched in the face. The judge described Webster as an instigator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was his conduct that sort of broke the dam, at least in that area,\u201d Mehta added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Webster, now a self-employed landscaper, enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1985, was honorably discharged in 1989 and joined the NYPD in 1991. His department service included a stint on then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg\u2019s private security detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monroe claimed \u201cOfficer N.R.\u201d had reached over a metal barrier and pushed a \u201cpeaceful\u201d man who was blinded by pepper spray.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/2022\/02\/11\/veteran-gets-prison-for-punching-police-during-capitol-riot\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP22041746248096.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Veteran gets prison for punching police during Capitol riot<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Mark Leffingwell served in the Marines before joining the Army National Guard.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs a former U.S. Marine and a member of law enforcement, Mr. Webster\u2019s moral instinct was to protect the innocent,\u201d Monroe wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Assistant U.S. Attorney Hava Mirell has argued that Webster should be held to a higher standard given his professional experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIf he were there to protect the innocent, then he should have been fending other rioters off from the barricade, not the other way around,\u201d Mirell said at the bond hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Webster faces six counts, including assaulting, resisting or impeding an officer using a dangerous weapon. He\u2019s the first Capitol riot defendant to be tried on an assault charge. He isn\u2019t accused of entering the Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 780 people have been charged with riot-related federal crimes. The Justice Department says more than 245 of them have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement. More than 250 riot defendants have pleaded guilty, mostly to nonviolent misdemeanors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jurors convicted two rioters of interfering with officers. One of them, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/capitol-siege-biden-congress-virginia-riots-aa94f1664014d4b08d190329d79d5804\">Thomas Robertson<\/a>, was an off-duty police officer from Rocky Mount, Virginia. The other, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/capitol-siege-texas-riots-ded87e709176b8b68921cad2597ff2d7\">Texas resident Guy Wesley Reffitt,<\/a> also was convicted of storming the Capitol with a holstered handgun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The third Capitol rioter to be convicted by a jury was <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/capitol-siege-biden-covid-health-riots-dc7286697fe43addc5e06249fac4a488\">Dustin Byron Thompson,<\/a> an Ohio man who said he was following Trump\u2019s orders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEven if jurors accepted that (Thompson) felt like he was doing what the former president wanted, that still wouldn\u2019t be a legal excuse,\u201d said McCord, the Georgetown professor. \u201cWhen juries are able to witness what happened, they can make that assessment relatively easily.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Webster has claimed he was acting in self-defense when he tackled a 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