A man who kicked the door of a police cruiser while the officer inside was being struck by G20 rioters was sentenced to 10 months in jail Friday as supporters were ejected from the courtroom.

Ontario Provincial Court Justice Beverly Brown said George Horton, 24, “engaged in on ongoing attack of the police, media and business property in the downtown area.”

Twenty of Horton’s supporters showed up to see him sentenced.

Several were ejected by police after they made comments and cursed the officer. One shouted an obscenity at the judge.

One man angrily asserted that police assaulted some of Horton’s other supporters as they were being ejected.

“They just assaulted someone there and you don’t even look at it. He shoved them into them the wall. You saw that,” the man said to the judge from the spectator’s gallery.

“There is no such thing as justice,” the man yelled as he left the courtroom.

Horton is the only person convicted of assaulting a Toronto police officer and intimidating a justice system official during the riots that took place on Queen St. W. on June 26, 2010.

Brown convicted Horton after finding he kicked the door of the car twice, knowing the police officer was inside.

The Crown did not allege that Horton was the person who struck the officer on the back of the head with a pole.

Horton also pleaded guilty to wearing a disguise and three counts of attempted mischief relating to attacks on two police cruisers.

Prosecutor Elizabeth Jackson sought a sentence of 18 months.

“He failed to recognize his conduct was wrong or show any remorse,” she said Friday.

Defence lawyer Ryan Clements countered that Horton admitted to most of his wrongdoing, so that was that is not an accurate depiction.

Clements had called for an eight-month jail sentence.

In August, Staff Sgt. Graham Queen told the court that he felt his life was in danger as his police cruiser was attacked by masked vandals and he was hit on the head.

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Queen said he was prepared to use “any level of force,” including his pistol, to defend his life.

The judge also sentenced Horton to two years probation, during which he may not wear masks to protests.