washington two men will be sentenced on friday for their roles in the pepperspray assault of a us capitol police officer who died the day after the jan 6 2021 riot whose family are asking the judge to impose the harshest possible penalty on his attackersprosecutors are seeking a 712 year prison term for julian khater 32 who deployed the pepper spray against officer brian sicknick and two other police officers and pleaded guilty last year to two counts of assaulting policesicknick died of a stroke the next day although the medical examiner francisco j diaz later attributed his death to natural causes he told the washington post he believed all that transpired on jan 6 2021 played a role in his deaththousands of donald trumps supporters stormed the capitol that day in an attempt to overturn his election lossgeorge tanios 41 of morgantown west virginia pleaded guilty last year to lesser misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct on restricted grounds and prosecutors are asking the judge to give him credit for time served in pretrial detention his lawyers have told the judge their client deeply regrets his actionsahead of fridays sentencing sicknicks family members submitted letters to us district judge thomas hogan asking him to impose the harshest possible sentencesi dont know what kind of upbringing you had what might have happened in your childhood that contributed to your deluded sense of right and wrong sicknicks mother gladys sicknick wrote addressing her sons attacker if i were your mother id be embarrassed to have a son like you i couldnt bear to look at you ever again which is how i feel right now let this be the last time mr khaterin his letter brian sicknicks brother kenneth sicknick refused to call both defendants by their nameshumans have names dogs have names pet rocks are given names the two defendants are not worthy of having names or being addressed as such he wrotekhater and tanios are two of the more than 950 people who have been charged in connection with the assault on the capitol four participants died during the chaos and five police officers including sicknick died afterward some by suicideprosecutors have said tanios drove from his home in west virginia to pick khater up in new jersey before proceeding to washington ahead of the riotafter attending a rally they joined the mob heading towards the capitol though there is no evidence they planned to enter the building or block the certification of electoral votesthey arrived with two canisters of bear spray which they did not use and two containers of pepperspray one of which khater did usein a video khater can be heard saying give me that bear shit before reaching into tanios backpackoffice sicknicks tragic demise so close in time to the traumatic events of that day underscores the seriousness of the offense committed by khater prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo to the judgekhaters attorney is also asking the judge to impose a sentence