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Posted on 01/15/2021 5:07:24 PM PST by Ennis85
ustice Department prosecutors have formally walked back their assertion in a court filing that said Capitol rioters sought to "capture and assassinate elected officials."
A federal prosecutor in Arizona asked a magistrate judge in a hearing on Friday to strike the line in a recent court filing about defendant Jacob Anthony Chansley, a man who is alleged to have led some in the crowd in the first wave into the Capitol with a bullhorn while carrying a spear and wearing a fur headdress.
The entire line the prosecutors want to omit from their court filing is: "Strong evidence, including Chansley's own words and actions at the Capitol, supports that the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States Government." The stunning move comes a few hours after the Michael Sherwin, the acting US attorney in Washington, DC, said at a press conference there was "no direct evidence of kill and capture teams" at this time in the siege of the Capitol building.
In court, Todd Allison, a line prosecutor for the Justice Department in Arizona, said DOJ may want to argue that type of assertion if Chansley goes to trial, but cannot say that at the moment.
"We do not want to mislead the court by discussing the strength of any specific evidence" related to his intent, Allison said. Chansley will remain in jail as he awaits trial, a judge decided on Friday, after the Justice Department portrayed him as a particularly belligerent leader among the rioters. Chansley's case eventually will move to the federal court in DC. The line was a chilling description yet of rioters who seized the Capitol last week, writing in a court filing that the intention was "to capture and assassinate elected officials." Justice Department lawyers have
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Justice Department prosecutors have formally walked back their assertion in a court filing that said Capitol rioters sought to “capture and assassinate elected officials.”
I think the guy claims to be part Indian
Well, Democrats DO like funerallies... ever since they pulled off the Carnahan rlection fraud using a funerally.
Thank God.....DOJ is more than capable of MOB RULE witch hunts, lumping everybody together under some bizarre trumped up charges, even if they all were unconnected strangers with different motivations and intent for being there.....most of them unarmed. And the press is so biased & dishonest, they would HELP Democrats both steal an election and cover it up....hell, half of the media would encourage summary executions of Trump supporters. They didn’t protect rights during the shutdowns and witch hunts and violent protests—-or use of HCQ which is said to prevent more than 80% of Covid19 hospitalizations...
Thank God.....DOJ is more than capable of MOB RULE witch hunts, lumping everybody together under some bizarre trumped up charges, even if they all were unconnected strangers with different motivations and intent for being there.....most of them unarmed. And the press is so biased & dishonest, they would HELP Democrats both steal an election and cover it up....hell, half of the media would encourage summary executions of Trump supporters. They didn’t protect rights during the shutdowns and witch hunts and violent protests—-or use of HCQ which is said to prevent more than 80% of Covid19 hospitalizations...
They know it was Antifa and BLM who theatedened those lives, that’s why they are walking it back.
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