Posted on 09/02/2021 7:34:00 AM PDT by RandFan
Prosecutors say rioters committed roughly 1,000 assaults on federal officers during the Jan. 6 insurrection on the U.S. Capitol.
In a court filing Wednesday, federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C. said they have already uploaded over 2,900 police bodycam videos from Jan. 6 to its evidence database, totaling over 2,300 hours — or nearly 100 days.
“Based on a review of the body-worn-camera footage conducted by our Office, the footage displays approximately 1,000 events that may be characterized as assaults on federal officers,” wrote Emily Miller, an assistant U.S. attorney and the Capitol Breach Discovery Coordinator.
Over 570 people have been arrested since the attack on the Capitol, which saw supporters of former President Trump overwhelm the building in a bid to halt the certification of the 2020 election, the Justice Department said in early August.
Approximately 140 police officers were assaulted during the riots, including 80 U.S. Capitol Police and 60 D.C. Metropolitan officers.
According to the DOJ, 175 individuals have already been charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding officers. This includes 55 who have been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon, or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.
The DOJ last Friday announced the arrests of two men— Uliyahu Hayah of Maryland and Robert Flynt Fairchild of Florida— for assaulting law enforcement officers during the riots.
Miller said authorities will begin uploading to its database approximately 7,000 hours of footage provided by U.S. Capitol Police within the next four weeks. An additional 7,000 hours were determined to be irrelevant to the case.
Wednesday's court filing was in the case of Couy Griffin, founder of the group Cowboys for Trump, who faces two misdemeanor charges in connection with the Capitol riots. The Associated Press reported last month that prosecutors offered Griffin a plea deal, the details of which were confidential.
Griffin, a commissioner in Otero County, N.M., didn’t enter the Capitol building, but remained on the buildings’ steps. Several Facebook videos showed that he was “well within the restricted area” of the Capitol.
So what? There were 100,000 assaults on officers throughout 2019 and 2020.
because they need something to change the afgahan narrative...
Bullshit, horseshit & moreshit.
And the officers just conveniently let them through
just imagine if that was the Taliban
It was a mostly peaceful protest. And everyone knows it.
BS.
Bring out the crying capitol policeman...
giving the finger to a fed can be considered assault, the poor wee timid dears are very sensitive, so take it with a grain of salt.
There were plenty of folks who got caught within the circle of the mob and had no where to go but forward. there were a couple dozen bad people.
Someone is lying and it is NOT the Patriots
I think we need to understand their definition of assault - wearing a Maga hat or what?
And Human Chit
Wha? Did dey get dey widdle feewings hurt from the yelling?
FReepers must know that verbal insults and taunts are CONSIDERED assault if “accompanied by physical contact”.
How was contact event preventable from accident (not intent) when in most cases the “officers” were pushing the people back.
“Assault” is definitely stretching the term. Cite each officer’s testimony that they were “assaulted”.
What utter tripe this “hill” propaganda outlet has put out. Crap on toast.
I heard from my friend’s sister’s cousin that someone wearing a MAGA hat stuck her tongue out at a Democrat congressperson.
Heinous, heinous crime
Should have been politicians and not capital officers
yet, all we see are the same 10 second video clips again and again and the capital police fight releasing any footage from the capital security cameras.
How many were charged in the Antifa riots?
Assault can be verbal. Battery is when you hit someone. The guy telling the cops to stop the people demolishing the Capitol was guilty of assault because he was yelling.
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