A New Jersey man who was at the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Friday to 80 months in prison for his attacks using a canister of pepper spray on Capitol police officers.
One of the officers, Brian Sicknick, died a day after the Capitol breach.
Court documents showed that Julian Khater, 33, had sprayed Sicknick and two other officers with pepper spray. Khater pleaded guilty in September 2022 to two felony counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon.
Sicknick’s death was ultimately determined to be due to natural causes after he suffered two strokes near the base of his brain stem….