U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras sentenced 44-year-old Peter Francis Stager of Conway, Ark., to 52 months’ imprisonment, 36 months’ supervised release and restitution of $2,000, the Justice Department said in a statement.
Stager — who was facing a slew of charges connected to the beating of the officer, identified only as B.M., and the Capitol siege — had pleaded guilty in mid-February to assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers using a deadly or dangerous weapon.
B.M., a Washington, D.C., Metropolitan police officer, was working his evening shift on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of then-President Donald Trump supporters attacked the joint session of Congress in a failed attempt to prevent Joe Biden from being certified as the 46th president of the United States.
During the siege, B.M. was ordered to assist in protecting the Capitol alongside other uniformed law enforcement officers from hundreds of rioters who had assembled near an archway that led to the Lower West Terrace entrance of the building.
Several rioters grabbed B.M. and dragged him down a flight stairs where he was forced into a prone position and beaten about the head and body.
The criminal complaint against Stager states that he was among those who beat the vulnerable police officer.
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