Posted on 06/24/2021 5:38:27 PM PDT by RandFan
The Department of Justice charged its first Capitol rioter suspected of attacking the media on Jan. 6.
Shane Jason Woods is being accused of attacking a Capitol police officer and a member of the media, a criminal complaint released on Thursday showed.
He is facing eight federal charges, including assault in special maritime and territorial jurisdiction, assault on a law enforcement officer and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds.
Woods allegedly ran up to a Capitol police officer who was just sprayed with bear repellant and tripped and pushed the officer to the ground, according to the complaint.
“The manner of attack on the cameraman was very similar to the attack on USCP Officer,” the complaint says.
The complaint alleges Woods ran up to a cameraman and tackled him to the ground in the media staging area.
Woods left after allegedly tackling the man and the camera falling to the ground.
“We have now crossed the threshold of 500 arrests, including the 100th arrest of a defendant on charges of assaulting a federal law enforcement officer. This morning, we arrested our first defendant on charges that include assaulting a member of the news media,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said on Thursday.
“I could not be more proud of the extraordinary effort by investigators and prosecutors to hold accountable those who engaged in criminal acts that day,” Garland added.
Authorities are still investigating the violent riot on Jan. 6 that attempted to stop Congress from certifying the electoral votes for President Joe Biden. The riot left multiple people dead and significant damage to the Capitol.
Whaaat?
That's a new one...
These idiots...they are purposefully trying to invent that these people are the threat that required a military ring for months. Look at the charges....the man tackled a policeman and a media person. Yes, charge him, but good God they are trying like hell to fabricate a national fear as if it was Pearl Harbor.
The riot left multiple people dead and significant damage to the Capitol.
Riot?
Multiple people left dead?
Significant damage to the Capitol?
Who shot Babbit? Waiting for that one.
The Democrat and media partisans think Jan 6 is a 9/11 or Pearl Harbor event.( this should be ridiculed and laughed at)
All I saw was a bunch of corrupt cowards hiding like scared little children.
These same hacks didn’t give a crap, while Antifa-BLM burned and looted a variety of cities in the summer of 2020. The rioters destroyed Federal property, however it wasn’t D.C. property so it didn’t matter.
They are gutless cowards scared of the American electorate.
One = multiple in Commie math.
Does Pence fall into that category?
Repeat the lie often enough...you know...the thing...C’mon, man!
Stasi scumbags persecuting political prisoners.
“Riot?
Multiple people left dead?
Significant damage to the Capitol?”
History is written by the winners.
We need to win.
Wait? What?
🙄
Garland is a fag.
We need to win......the media and our education system back.
“We need to win......the media and our education system back.”
We never had them, but, it would be nice to have them at the point of not trying to destroy our country.
Quite a change from Trump’s worthless DOJ that was afraid to lift a finger to do anything, (yeah Sessions and Barr, I’m talking about you). Now we have an out of control banana republic style DOJ that’s running amok.
Ashli Babbitt is multiple people?
[Authorities are still investigating the violent riot on Jan. 6 that attempted to stop Congress from certifying the electoral votes for President Joe Biden.]
That should have been the first paragraph. I would have stopped there.
A few terrorists for Nancy’s Committee on Jan 6
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