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Trump supporter sentenced for blindsiding Capitol officer

Ralph Joseph Celentano III (U.S. Department of Justice)

Ralph Joseph Celentano III “blindsided” a U.S. Capitol police officer in a “football-type tackle” on Jan. 6, knocking him off a ledge, prosecutors claimed. (U.S. Department of Justice)

A Donald Trump supporter who “blindsided” a U.S. Capitol police officer in a “football-type tackle” on Jan. 6, 2021, knocking him off a ledge learned his fate this week.

Ralph Joseph III, 56, of New York, was sentenced to 78 months in prison and 36 months of supervised release for assaulting law enforcement and other charges from his conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol when rioters disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress counting the electoral votes for the 2020 presidential election during a “Stop the Steal” rally, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a news release. He was convicted in June of two felony charges, including assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers and civil disorder and related misdemeanor offenses.

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