r/CapitolConsequences • u/Jordan_WUSA9 Verified Journalist • Aug 11 '22

Ex-police officer who saw himself as pro-Trump 'counter insurgency' sentenced to 87 months in prison in Jan. 6 case Sentenced

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/ex-virginia-police-officer-sentenced-to-7-years-in-prison-in-capitol-riot-case-thomas-robertson-rocky-mount-trump-jacob-fracker/65-4325e02a-5e48-49a5-aad6-a39d3373a312
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u/kamyu2 Aug 11 '22

Clarification on the title because I think it is important:
He wasn't some retired guy. He was an employed police officer during the insurrection. He only became an 'ex-officer' when he was arrested.

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u/jhnhines Aug 11 '22

I'm all for us using "Disgraced...." in titles when people of authority are fired for this shit. This man most definitely fits the definition of Disgraced Police Officer.

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u/halforc_proletariat Aug 12 '22

"Disgraced" is an improvement, for sure. I still think there could be more accurate language. Hard to disgrace a white supremacist institution with acts of sedition.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '22

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u/halforc_proletariat Aug 12 '22

Loving the brain storming, I can see we're getting there. I just hit the same problem, y'know? How does one disgrace that which has never known grace?

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u/suriyuki Aug 12 '22

"Right wing traitor loses his government appointed symbol of oppression after being found guilty of assisting in the MAGA fueled attempt to over throw the United States government."

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u/Important-Owl1661 Aug 12 '22

I'm waiting for the station that has that lead. TYT tries, but other than a couple of announcers the rest of those people bore my ass to death.

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u/vampirepriestpoison Aug 12 '22

Hey now they caught those slaves with grace... And poise!

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u/Upvotespoodles Aug 12 '22

“Fired as fuck”?

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '22

Cashiered would be the term for being cast out of the military as a disgrace. Appropriate due to the stolen valor.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '22

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u/ItsRedTomorrow Aug 12 '22

The other hogs will protect it.

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u/BeachesBeTripin Aug 12 '22

Disgraced is kinda a rough sell bcs cops get away with murder, rape and sleeping with underaged civil (pedophilia) informants all the time so treason and racism is not shocking.

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u/MenuBar Aug 12 '22

Maybe "Disgraceful"?
As in "Disgraceful Piggy"

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u/dingoeslovebabies Aug 12 '22

Sorry to be the one to have to tell you this, I’m from the neighboring town and I can assure you, this guy’s actions haven’t disgraced him, they’ve likely lionized him. The town might even erect a memorial to this proud patriot

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u/netheroth Aug 12 '22

Amaze.... disgraaaaace...

for treasonous fucks...

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u/ItsRedTomorrow Aug 12 '22

Friendly reminder to everyone that cops have never been a profession with grace.

They started as thugs protecting the worst people in the country, and then they just kept getting worse.

Sorry if you’re related to one liberals, it changes nothing.

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u/ItsRedTomorrow Aug 12 '22

Lmao as if this sort of ideology and behavior isn’t par the course.

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u/TheNotSoRealJohnDoe Aug 11 '22

Oh wow a cop who's a violent narcisistic white supremacist?

Stunned.

Never Saw This

Coming

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '22

Remember: this is one guy.

There are 1000's. I'm not someone that screams ACAB for any tiny infraction LE Agencies encounter, but there's a prolific problem that's been nurtured over the last 100 or so years in the United States LE.

The recruitment & hiring of Right voting personnel, coupled with the lack of accountability for any wrong doing they do.

This guy became an "ex-Officer" after he was arrested not because he's pro-MAGA, but because he was stupid enough to get caught.

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u/FlatMolasses4755 Aug 12 '22

always remember that they want the dumb ones

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '22

Not dumb.

Malleable.

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u/1000Airplanes Aug 12 '22

In this context, aren't they synonymous?

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u/il_the_dinosaur Aug 12 '22

Isn't the joke that you don't really train your police officers so claiming it would be too expensive to train someone who will quit soon anyway can't be an argument.

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u/ItsRedTomorrow Aug 12 '22

Oh they get trained. Trained on how to get away with crying fear when they murder someone.

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u/AndrewWaldron Aug 12 '22

The police department nearby in Louisville, Ky, the same department that killed Breonna Taylor, has been recruiting from the worst of other states because working for the LMPD has become such an incredibly terrible job locally.

They've got a nice, new, big budget to stop all the crime they've been ignoring and to combat that, they've taken to bringing in the bottom, worst performing officers from other forcers.

After shedding officers for years to the surrounding counties and communities, the LMPD, in the wake of both its sex scandel and the Breonna Taylor murder is having a hard time attracting applicants, let along hires.

Shocker.

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u/bipolar79 Aug 12 '22

Then you have the idiots that think LMPD has been defunded & that's why crime is so bad here.

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u/rddi0201018 Aug 12 '22

Is this nationwide? It seems there was a lot of rhetoric about defunding, but that never happened. And then they just refused to do their jobs. And then got an increased budget.

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u/bipolar79 Aug 12 '22

I have no idea, possibly. I just know I've heard it a lot from people in Louisville.

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u/UCgirl Aug 13 '22

I live in a relatively small peaceful community. Our police force has been having issues filling vacancies as well.

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u/AndrewWaldron Aug 13 '22

Small communities always have problems with these things. Often times the police you get are cops that have fuct up in the cities, so they move to rural departments...bringing their problems with them. But now since so many city departments are experiencing shortages, there aren't enough left to flow over into rural areas.

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u/Fungustoe1 Aug 12 '22

Sorry, all cops are pigs.

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u/BuddhaFacepalmed Aug 12 '22

Nah, pigs are awesome. Cops aren't.

They're bastards because good people in police departments don't stay cops or good people for very long.

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u/TheNotSoRealJohnDoe Aug 12 '22

Remember that piece of shit Lee Baca?

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '22

Never heard of him, I had to look him up.

"Leroy David "Lee" Baca (born May 27, 1942) is an American former sheriff of Los Angeles County, California.

Baca was elected Los Angeles County's 30th sheriff against his mentor Sherman Block, who had died in office days prior to the election but remained on the ballot. He was sworn in on December 7, 1998.

He was re-elected to a fourth term in 2010. He was criticized for proposing a half-percent sales tax increase in 2004 to hire more deputy sheriffs, placing friends on the payroll, taking of gifts, and for releasing inmates from the Los Angeles County Jail.[1]

On May 12, 2017, Baca was sentenced to three years in federal prison for his role in a scheme to obstruct an FBI investigation of abuses in county jails. Baca is free on appeal."

Wow, what a piece of shit. As of 2020 he's incarcerated turn (*ghasp!!) jail informant!

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u/ItsRedTomorrow Aug 12 '22

You should be saying acab because the police have been an institution of oppression for the working class from the very beginning.

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u/Quinnna Aug 12 '22

A liar too claimed to be an Army Ranger who recieved a purple heart. Neither if those things were true. Conservatives love liars.

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u/Earguy Aug 12 '22

So funny that these stolen Valor guys always claim incredible service. It's always special forces and purple hearts. Never regular ol'infantry or food service. Those positions are incredibly important and their service is every bit as meritorious as any elite fighter.

Meanwhile I served in the army reserves for several years. Did my drills and 2 weeks a year, and was ready to be called up any time, any reason. However I never got called up. I do not have a DD-214, and I am not considered a veteran.

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u/weegeeboltz Aug 12 '22

Similar or same with my Father. He served in the reserves for several years in the early 60's. Was honorably discharged. Subsequently, Vietnam was ramping up and he was eventually drafted. Due to his age, which was 25, coupled with prior service, he got an exemption (whatever the term would be).

All that said, he was always very adamant that he was not a veteran, because like you- he technically wasn't. He had guilt about not having to go. A friend of his from HS who was the same age and called up in the same draft lotto, but had no prior service at that point, had to go and didn't come back. Even though he didn't dodge the draft, and frankly earned that exemption with service to his country- It still bothered him. He never would even mention his time in the reserves, because people would assume he had been to Vietnam due to his age demographic.

When he died, he did qualify for some sort of Naval grave marker indicating his service, and the funeral director was baffled that I didn't want to file the paperwork for it. He simply would not have wanted it. The only thing he would have accepted as a memory of his service, is that he did like to watch the Army-Navy game every year, so I honor his service, simply, by rooting for the Navy.

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u/onesexz Aug 12 '22

What? Why are you not considered a vet? Just because you weren’t activated?

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u/Earguy Aug 12 '22

Correct. You have to be active duty for a certain length of time time - longer than your two weeks - or injured while you're on your training time, which would entitle you to VA disability ratings.

I have a pretty honorable discharge certificate, and a DD-256. I'm not a veteran. Every year at church when they honor veterans by asking them to stand to accept a round of appreciative applause, I don't stand. That would be Stolen Valor.

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u/onesexz Aug 12 '22

Damn, that’s actually kind of shitty. I mean I get it but I feel like you could be given some sort of vet status for joining at all. As a previous AD vet, I wouldn’t be butt hurt if y’all were recognized.

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u/Earguy Aug 12 '22

I worked in a VA medical center, and still work with a lot of veterans and help them get their benefits. I tell them that I've served, I've worn the uniform, I was in the reserves, but I never say that I'm a veteran. It's just awkward, because it can also suggest that my discharge was less than honorable.

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u/onesexz Aug 12 '22

I gotcha, well thanks for your service and for helping vets. Have a good one.

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '22

You have to be a real special moron to lie about that kind of stuff. The govt. keeps records of those kinds of things.

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u/Woodworkingwino Aug 11 '22

Is this one of the good guys with guns that was probably happy when BLM protesters sustained life long injuries from cops that they were talking about?

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u/nmesunimportnt Aug 12 '22

Didn’t he hear? The GOP hates law-enforcement now.

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u/DrNopeMD Aug 12 '22

Should have had his sentence doubled for that fact alone. Public servants should be held to a higher standard.

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u/dpash Aug 12 '22

This was my exact question when reading the title, so thank you for clarifying for me. And yes I agree that it's an incredibly important distinction.

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u/SeafoodBox Aug 12 '22

Will he be eligible for the police pension?

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u/Do_it_with_care Aug 12 '22

And he stayed and was ok with beating other of his coworkers? It’s unbelievable his own place of cops let him just retire.

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u/Remote_Engine Aug 12 '22

Was this person from Roanoke? I recall a few shitbags down the road from he here in Virginia that were some sort of law enforcement.

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u/UCgirl Aug 13 '22

I didn’t read the article and came in to read the comments. I’m so glad you made this comment because I wouldn’t have realized otherwise.

I can’t freaking believe this guy!!!