Ex-Boston K-9 officer who used chair as weapon on Jan. 6 gets 20-month sentence

A former Boston K-9 officer who used a chair as a weapon during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol was sentenced to nearly a year in prison Friday, according to officials.

Joseph Robert Fisher, 52, was sentenced to 20 months in prison and 24 months of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution, per a press release from U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

Fisher, who is from Plymouth, Mass., pleaded guilty in February to two felony charges of civil disorder and assaulting an officer.