Robert Sanford

Robert Sanford, a retired 26-year firefighter from Chester, Pennsylvania who traveled to Washington, D.C. on a bus trip organized by Turning Point USA, threw a fire extinguisher at a group of U.S. Capitol Police officers on the Lower West Terrace during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, striking three of them in the head, and also threw an orange traffic cone at a Capitol Police sergeant; at sentencing, he said, "Mob mentality is real, and I got caught up in it." He pleaded guilty to one felony charge, assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon, with other charges dismissed. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman sentenced him on 4/11/2023 to 52 months of incarceration, 36 months of supervised release with conditions, $5,798 in restitution, and a $100 special assessment.