Rioter Gets Seven Years In Notorious Assault On Cop

Via press release from the Justice Department:

Steven Cappuccio, 53, of Universal City, Texas, was sentenced to 85 months in prison and 24 months of supervised release on multiple felony charges, including assaulting law enforcement officers.

At approximately 3:06 p.m., Cappuccio approached the entrance to the Tunnel, recording video on his cell phone of the scene outside the Capitol. Cappuccio entered the Tunnel and immediately joined the push against the police line.

During the “heave-ho” push, a police officer became pinned between the metal doors in the Tunnel and a shield held by a rioter.

Cappuccio saw this, then forcefully yanked the gas mask away from the pinned officer’s face in hard, quick movements, causing the officer’s head and neck to be yanked violently in various directions.

As he viciously ripped off the officer’s gas mask, Cappuccio appeared to say, “How do you like me now, fucker?!”

Cappuccio then took the officer’s riot baton out of his hands and used the baton to strike the officer in the face. Cappuccio later exited the Tunnel, looked to the crowd, and pumped his fist into the air victoriously.

That’s his victim, Daniel Hodges, in the photo above. The first tweet below is from Hodges.