Posted on 01/15/2021 3:41:48 PM PST by McGruff
Justice 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.
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CNN Digital Expansion 2018 Katelyn Polantz
By Katelyn Polantz, CNN
Updated 5:46 PM ET, Fri January 15, 2021
(CNN)Justice 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 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.
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/15/politics/capitol-capture-assassinate-elected-officials/index.html?utm_content=2021-01-15T15%3A20%3A10&utm_source=twcnnbrk&utm_term=link&utm_medium=social
None of the people who entered the Capitol are going to do a single day of time. But Babbit's shooter is going to prison.
"At least four off-duty officers and 12 on-duty officers are reportedly under investigation for their alleged involvement or behavior in the U.S. Capitol riot.Two of the off-duty police officers are facing criminal charges over allegations they joined the January 6 disorder. Two other officers have reportedly been suspended pending investigations into their alleged involvement.
Capitol officers are being probed for possible dereliction of duty, or aiding or abetting rioters, news agency Reuters reports.
Suspensions have been issued to two Capitol Police officers and at least 10 more are under investigation over their behavior during the riot."
Question enough people, edit your tape, the media gets it’s sound bite, but we will get our lb of flesh.
Too true.
Any apology from you Caww?
Caww agreed with the jackass prosecutor. He is so afraid of zip ties that he believes everyone at the capital protest deserves every dirty deed the leftist are doing to them.
They successfully created the narrative that Republican rioters were out to assassinate Congressmen. It is impossible to retract that entire concocted, bald-faced lie.
Baseless. Now will Twitter ban DOJ?
This is standard Deep State / Big Media operating procedure. Concoct wild lies (Republicans, “siege,” “assault,” no antifa, intent on assassination and decapitating the government, etc), get the fake media to run with it, then issue a retraction that nobody will ever see.
The narrative becomes permanent within a couple of news cycles. It you tell a prog it was all a manufactured Reichstag Parliament event, they will accuse you of not knowing anything or broadcasting wild conspiracy stories.
They really went into the capitol to steal ‘the science’ that the left is hiding but always follows. Alas it must have been spirited away to some place near Dulles.
“US takes back its assertion that Capitol rioters wanted to ‘capture and assassinate’ officials”
The deep state blew it and provided neither security nor much intelligence in the recent DC clown show.
The deep state showed complete incompetence, proving to the congressional mice that the deep state will NOT protect their worthless hides. The incompetent deep state is in this game for one reason only - to enrich themselves with dollars.
The result? Utter panic by Pelosi, McCarthy, Mitch and all the other useless congressional traitors.
Buy your popcorn, people, another opportunity to witness a paper tiger deep state collapse like this will not come our way for a millennium.
America’s enemies are licking their chops.
I noticed that too. Weaselly.
Here come the spear control laws.
They got it into the media and henceforth it is true.
No, he’s the Qanon guy.
The leftist who egged things on is John Earle Sullivan.
Exactly,
“Mr. MICROPHONE” controls
The Vertical and
The Horizontal!
Half of Americans
Believe It!
.
Give Me the
Damn Microphone!
No. I think you are confusing him with John Earle Sullivan, who founded InsurgenceUSA ...he also had a female sidekick helping him out.
The Election,,,
It was Stolen
Fair and Square!
Almost tagline worthy. +1
Of course no apology....no reason to. The guy had no business having zip ties - period, as I stated and stand on.
You haven't a clue what I believe about the Capital Riots as I've not offered any opinion on that event one way or another.....except supporting what Pres. stated Prior to the event. What happened at the capital was NOT what he invited people to do that day.
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