Fifteen people were charged with the attack on the United States Capitolincluding the man pictured in Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi’s office, the Justice Department announced Friday.
“We announce 15 charges from federal justice”Ken Kohl, of the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, told a news conference.
Among the accused is a man suspected of planting a craft bomb near Congress and Richard Barnett, arrested this Friday, who entered Pelosi’s office where he posed for the cameras and left insulting messages, the official said. Barnett was arrested in Arkansas and charged with “violent burglary,” Kohl said.
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Authorities pointed to one person who had 11 Molotov cocktails in a vehicle near the Congress, and another who He knocked out a police officer and another who came in with a loaded revolver.
“Literally hundreds of prosecutors and agents work 24/7 in three command centers,” added Kohl, promising more arrests and perpetrators in the coming days.
Literally hundreds of prosecutors and agents work 24/7 in three command centers
On the other hand, the Attorney General of the United States is going to open a criminal case
federal police for the death of a police officer in the attack on Congress, local media reported this Friday.
The Capitol policeman, Brian Sicknick, was one of five fatalities in the attack by Trump supporters to interrupt a session confirming Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory.
The officer died on Thursday “as a result of injuries he sustained on the job” during the attack on Congress by Trump supporters, police said in a statement.
AFP
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