几乎所有50个州都有超过465人因与此案有关而被捕1月6日对美国国会大厦的袭击司法部在一份声明中宣布周六为起义150天。
DOJ周五发布的一份概况介绍有助于说明官员们所描述的情况可能是最大的刑事调查在DOJ的历史上,它继续扫荡更多的嫌疑犯。
调查人员还在继续搜寻和寻找那天最暴力的演员的线索。该部门表示,仍在寻找线索,以确定250多名参与袭击警察或其他暴力行为的人。据DOJ报道,到目前为止,全国各地的公民已经向联邦调查局提供了20多万条数字媒体线索,以协助其调查。
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美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的支持者迪克·巴奈特坐在美国众议院议长办公室里
1月6日,在特朗普鼓励他的支持者游行到国会山后,支持唐纳德·特朗普总统的集会变得致命。国会正在国会山开会,批准乔·拜登为美国第46任总统。
暴徒突破路障和安全检查站,迫使副总统迈克·彭斯和立法者撤离或躲在原地,暂时中断了乔·拜登总统的选举胜利认证。五个人,包括国会警察布莱恩·西克尼克在暴乱期间或之后死亡,140名警察受伤,国会大厦遭受约150万美元的损失。
到目前为止,在被指控的人中,超过130人被指控袭击或阻碍试图保护国会大厦的执法人员,包括超过40人被指控对官员使用致命或危险武器。到目前为止,几乎所有被提审的人都表示无罪,许多非法进入大楼的人说,他们是按照特朗普在集会上的指示走向国会大厦的,或者不认为他们违反了法律,因为他们跟随了数百人,没有遇到警方的抵抗。
到目前为止,包括一名自称为宣誓看守民兵的成员在内的两名被告已经认罪,越来越多案件的检察官表示,他们正在与被告进行积极的认罪讨论。
在周五下午的法庭听证会上,检察官宣读了一名国会警察的来信,这名警察在暴乱中被推倒在地,遭受脑震荡。这位官员恳求法官将被指控推搡她的被告瑞安·萨姆塞尔(Ryan Samsel)留在监狱等待审判。萨姆塞尔的律师对他的行为提出质疑,认为他对社区构成了威胁。
这名官员在信中写道,“你偷走了我无法挽回的瞬间”,并指出她因受伤而遭受了脑损伤和“心理创伤”。
DOJ说,这位官员只是大约140名在暴动中遭到袭击的人中的一个,其中80名来自国会警察,60名来自首都警察局。
据《DOJ》报道,检方还指控约30名被告犯有阴谋罪,其目的要么是阻挠国会认证总统选举的职责,要么是阻碍执法,伤害官员,要么是三者兼而有之。
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雅各布·安东尼·安格利·钱斯利,被称为卡农萨满,出现在首都大楼外面
本周早些时候,针对宣誓看守者民兵组织成员的暴乱中最大的阴谋案件扩大了四名被告,使迄今为止被指控的被告总数达到16名。
检察官指控该组织的成员早在2020年11月3日选举日就开始密谋破坏乔·拜登总统的胜利认证,利用社交平台招募其他人加入他们,并携带军事装备和枪支前往华盛顿特区,这些装备和枪支作为“快速反应部队”的一部分留在附近,在发生暴力事件或前总统唐纳德·特朗普援引《叛乱法》时可以动员起来。
国会警察将于周一在国会广场进行培训,最近几周已经进行了几次校外培训。
上个月末,共和党人封锁了参议院该法案将建立一个两党独立的委员会来调查1月6日的袭击。
150 days after Capitol attack, more than 465 arrested as FBI seeks tips on hundreds more: DOJ
More than 465 people have been arrested across nearly all 50 states in connection with theJan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Justice Department announced in a statement marking Saturday as 150 days since the insurrection.
A fact sheet released by the DOJ on Friday helps to illustrate what officials have described aslikely the largest criminal investigationin DOJ's history, which continues to sweep up more suspects.
And investigators are continuing to search and seek tips on some of the most violent actors from that day. The department says it is still seeking tips to identify more than 250 individuals involved in assaults on officers or other acts of violence. So far, citizens around the country have provided more than 200,000 digital media tips to the FBI to assist in its investigations, according to the DOJ.
On Jan. 6, a rally in support of President Donald Trump turned deadly after Trump encouraged his supporters to march to Capitol Hill, where Congress was meeting to certify Joe Biden as the 46th president of the United States.
Rioters breached through barricades and security checkpoints, forcing Vice President Mike Pence and lawmakers to evacuate or shelter in place, temporarily disrupting the certification of President Joe Biden’s election win. Five people, includingCapitol Police officer Brian Sicknick, died during or after the riot, 140 police officers were injured and the Capitol building suffered approximately $1.5 million in damage.
Of those charged so far, more than 130 have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement trying to protect the Capitol, including more than 40 charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon against officers. Nearly everyone who has been arraigned so far has pleaded not guilty, with many of those who illegally entered the building saying they were following Trump’s instructions at the rally to march to the Capitol or didn’t believe they were violating the law because they were following hundreds of others and meeting no resistance from police.
Two -- including a self-proclaimed member of the Oath Keepers militia -- have so far have pleaded guilty, and prosecutors in a growing number of cases have said they are engaged in active plea discussions with defendants.
In a court hearing Friday afternoon, prosecutors read a letter from one Capitol Police officer who suffered a concussion after being pushed to the ground during the riot. The officer pleaded for a judge to keep the defendant accused of pushing her, Ryan Samsel, behind bars pending trial. Lawyers for Samsel disputed his actions made him a threat to the community.
"You have stolen moments away from me that I cannot get back," the officer wrote in her letter, noting she suffered brain damage and "psychological trauma" as a result of the injury.
The officer is just one among roughly 140 who were assaulted during the insurrection, the DOJ says, including 80 from the Capitol Police and 60 from D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department.
Prosecutors have also charged roughly 30 defendants with conspiracy, either with the aim of thwarting Congress' duty of certifying the presidential election, obstructing law enforcement, injuring officers or a combination of the three, according to the DOJ.
The largest conspiracy case out of the riot against members of the Oath Keepers militia group was expanded by four defendants earlier this week, bringing the total charged to 16 defendants so far.
Prosecutorshave charged members of the groupwith beginning to conspire as early as Election Day -- Nov. 3, 2020 -- to disrupt the certification of President Joe Biden's victory, using social platforms to recruit others to join them and traveling to D.C. equipped with military gear and firearms that were left close by as part of a 'Quick Reaction Force' that could be mobilized in the event violence erupted or former President Donald Trump invoked the Insurrection Act.
Capitol Police will be conducting training on the Capitol Grounds on Monday and have had several off-campus trainings in recent weeks.
Late last month,Republicans blocked the Senatefrom moving forward on a bill that would establish a bipartisan, independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 assault.