Posted on 07/06/2021 8:25:59 PM PDT by RandFan
The Department of Justice says it has charged over 535 defendants six months after the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a statement that 495 defendants have been charged with entering or remaining in a restricted federal building or grounds.
It added that nearly 235 defendants were charged with obstructing, influencing, or impeding an official proceeding, or attempting to do so.
At least 165 were charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding officers or employees. The FBI released 11 new videos of suspects violently assaulting officers during the Capitol riots.
The U.S. attorney’s office also says that approximately six people have been arrested on charges of assaulting a member of the media or destroying their equipment.
But the DOJ still says it needs the public’s help identifying 300 people believed to have committed violent acts at the Capitol, including 200 who who assaulted law enforcement.
About ten people have pleaded guilty to a variety of charges thus far, the agency said. The attack caused about $1.5 million worth of damage to the Capitol building.
Among the arrests was Fi Duong, who was arrested Tuesday, according to recently- unsealed court records. He is facing several charges in connection with the riots, including knowingly enter or remain in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do, disorderly conduct and obstruction of an official proceeding.
According to an FBI affdivat, Duong allegedly climbed a wall of the U.S. Capitol before entering.
He told an undercover FBI employee that he wore all black in an “effort to look like a member of Antifa.” The affidavit further said that he was wearing a “Japanese style mask.”
Duong and his group also “coordinated additional surveillance” of the Capitol, prosecutors allege.
Several deaths occurred as a result of the riots that saw supporters of former President Trump overwhelm the Capitol, delaying the certification of the Electoral College results for the 2020 election.
The House has formed a select committee to investigate the events that day. Pelosi has named her eight members to the committee, including Republican Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.). But is unclear if Republicans will do the same.
The FBI says it needs the public’s help identifying 300 people believed to have committed violent acts at the Capitol, including 200 who who assaulted law enforcement.
That’s right.
How many shooting were there in Chicago last week?
Smoking in a federal building ismprobably the biggest crime committed
How many BLM or Antifa arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails, shooting lasers in eyes of cops and assaulting people with their “skateboards”??
Be a fish in an ocean of fish.
The FBI is amazing and disciplined. Our government is perfect and I’m glad I voted for Biden. Anyone advocating violence is an agent provocateur.
How many are BLM and/or Antifa?
The wrong 535 were charged...
From the article: “Several deaths occurred as a result of the riots that saw supporters of former President Trump overwhelm the Capitol,...”
I can’t believe they are still touting this totally debunked nonsense.
I am sure they are trying to figure out, how to do exactly that.
Meanwhile back in Portland, Seattle, etc., the Keystone FBI is still trying to identify antifa/BLM rioters, arsonists, looters, shooters and cop killers.
Stay tuned. AG Garland and FBI’s “Strange Wray” are on the job. I’m willing to bet that Durham will issue his report many years for these clowns ever begin to arrest Antifa/BLM rioters and insurrectionists.
More proof that that we now have TWO systems of justice in our country!
In the meanwhile cities were looted and burned and people died. Ho hum!
“... $1.5 million worth of damage to the Capitol building.”
First, it was about $20,000, then it grew to $1 MILLION, now it’s $1.5 MILLION, just how high will it go?
Another lie from The Swill: “Several deaths occurred as a result of the riots...”
When they post a lie often enough we know our true enemy. These swine have to go. Many others here know me and I’m severely unhappy.
These are political prisoners in the supposed freeist nation on this planet held by a regime who gained power through blatant corrupt means with no morality whatsoever. Where is “60 Minutes” or PBS defending their rights? Are we all getting it? These innocent gawkers invited in need to be freed and not sacrificed to Nancy Pelosi’s French Revolution. And that power-mad lunatic has to go now.
So we’re all giving up now? Screw you guys, I’m taking my ball and winning. Wussie non-patriot keyboard warriors with no real love for our nation no better than the snowflakes. If the job’s not done right you have to do it yourself.
I guess there is a slight resemblance, but Hunter would be smoking crack.
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