A federal judge sentenced a former Rocky Mount, Va., police officer to 87 months in jail for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, matching the longest prison term handed down for one of the convicted rioters to date and illustrating how former members of law enforcement and the military participated in the violent insurrection.
In April, Robertson became the second accused Jan. 6 rioter to face trial by jury. Jurors found him guilty on all six counts of which he was charged, including obstruction of an official proceeding and civil disorder. As the riot unfolded, Robertson was among hundreds of Trump supporters who broke their way into the Capitol building. He was accompanied by Jacob Fracker, an associate from Virginia with whom he posed for pictures in the Capitol crypt.
He went on to describe how disruptions to his personal life were a key factor in the radicalization that led him to participate in riot at the Capitol. In late November 2020, he told the judge, an “older friend of mine suffered a fall in his home,” which ultimately resulted in a diagnosis of stage 4 brain cancer. “From that date I became his primary care taker and contact for health care and Hospice.
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