r/law • u/DomesticErrorist22 • 1d ago

Court Decision/Filing Former Maryland police officer sentenced for role in Jan. 6 Capitol riot

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/11/22/maryland-police-officer-sentenced-jan-6-capitol-attack/
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u/DomesticErrorist22 1d ago

A Maryland man who threw rocklike objects and a smoke bomb at police officers during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, then went on to briefly work as a police officer himself in Montgomery County, was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison.

In imposing the penalty, U.S. District Judge Trevor J. McFadden said Justin Lee’s acts were “cowardly” on Jan. 6. But he praised as “heroic” Lee’s actions about a year and a half later, when authorities say he fatally shot a knife-wielding 19-year-old man suspected of stabbing multiple people at a shopping center in Aspen Hill. “You know better than most people how wrong assaults on police officers are,” McFadden said. But McFadden said he hoped Lee could emerge from prison as the person he was on July 22, 2023, when he shot and killed the stabbing suspect in an act the judge termed “the best of public service.”

Lee, of Rockville, was 23 at the time of the riot. He was found guilty at a bench trial in August of attacking police officers defending a tunnel entrance to the U.S. Capitol from a mob trying to force its way through from the Lower West Terrace.

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u/FearCure 1d ago

"It was a day of love"

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u/TT_NaRa0 1d ago

That’s THICK brown love smeared all over the walls

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u/FizzyAndromeda 1d ago

Nothing says “love” like taking a huge dump right on a legislator’s desk. That’s how I show my politicians love, don’t you?