Posted on 12/14/2021 3:50:02 PM PST by Libloather
District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine announced on Tuesday a civil lawsuit against the right-wing groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers over the January 6 Capitol riot.
The lawsuit marks the first civil lawsuit filed by a government entity against those who participated in the deadly January 6 riot, he wrote on Twitter.
"They caused extensive damage to the District, our democracy and particularly the brave men and women of our Metropolitan Police Department," he wrote on Twitter.
He added: "Today, we're holding these insurrectionists accountable for conspiring to terrorize the District by planning, promoting, and participating in the deadly attack on the Capitol. I'm seeking damages in this case and will keep working to ensure such an assault never happens again."
In court documents first reported by Axios, Racine points to injuries suffered by police officers responding to the riot as part of justification for the civil suit.
He also alleged that due to their actions, the District of Columbia "incurred significant damages" including an "unprecedented" deployment of police resources.
"While the costs to the District are still being investigated and tallied, the District has preliminarily estimated that MPD incurred millions of dollars in costs during the week of January 6th alone," the lawsuit reads.
Racine alleged the two groups "through and with their leadership and certain members and affiliates conspired to commit acts of violence and attack the United States Congress on January 6, 2021" in order to prevent Congress and former Vice President Mike Pence from certifying the 2020 election results.
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Democrats are Marxist It’s and Oath of Office Breakers.
That is just what I was going to post. Equal protection under the law and all that crap.
Why don’t BLM and Antifa get sued into oblivion?
Where was the prosecution of those actual terrorists?
None to speak of because — let's face it — antifa and BurnLootMurder ARE the Democrat Party.
Malicious prosecution.
They keep saying “our democracy”. It’s a code word for “the way we like to run things”.
Worthy of a vote for post of the day.
Whoops...heh, heh. Those were the communist riots during Trump's inauguration.
Can you say “ Discovery “.🤔
rioters?
“...and will keep working to ensure such an assault never happens again.”
Except of course if Trump or a likeness gets elected.
A Marxist Judge will let them send you a bunch of worthless junk and proceed with the tort.
Excellent questions.
Let's bring that up again and again like the Commies do about Jan. 6th.
Is Karl Racine a Soros guy?
Weird they’ve never sued any of the people funding BLM and antifa. /s
how come no one has tried to sue Black Lies Matter and Antifa? BLM raked in tens of millions from a wide range of businesses. Come to think of it, all those who showered them with money could be sued for financing nationwide rioting.
Couple of names here to add to the big list-—
Antifags and Burning Looting Mobs caused much more damage, where are the lawsuits against them?
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