Hoping to avoid prison, an Amherst man who robbed a beaten police officer of his badge and radio amid the storming of the U.S. Capitol apologized in a letter to a federal judge and said a years-long misdiagnosis of his mental illness contributed to his actions on Jan. 6, 2021.
“If I had been diagnosed properly years ago I likely wouldn’t be in the situation I find myself today, and at the mercy of this court,” Thomas Sibick wrote to U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson.
The judge is scheduled to sentence Sibick on Friday in Washington.
A federal prosecutor last week recommended a nearly six-year prison sentence for Sibick, describing him as “one of the most violent rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.”
The U.S. Probation Office has recommended a four-year prison sentence.
As thousands of people swarmed around and in the Capitol, with some attacking and injuring police officers, the Amherst man’s actions in the Lower West Terrace stood out for what happened to then-D.C. Police Officer Michael Fanone, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Kimberly L. Paschall in her court filing.
A federal prosecutor has recommended a nearly six-year prison sentence for Thomas Sibick, saying his repeated assaults against police officers “mark him as one of the most violent rioters who attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.”
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