6 assault on US Capitol It’s been one year since a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an apparent effort to thwart the certification of President Biden's presidential win. One of the rioters was fatally shot by Capitol Police during the attack and more than 700 were ...
7:21 Capitol insurrection: Tracking the attack 1 year later On Jan. 6, 2021, pro-Trump rioters broke into the U.S. Capitol. The attack resulted in deaths, injuries, more than 700 arrests and former President Donald Trump's second impeachment....
And then something shifted. The pattern was disrupted. Years went by, and databases in Chicago and Salt Lake City showed no new arrests. Had he quietly moved somewhere else? Had he temporarily changed his ways? With 2020 came the coronavirus pandemic, the summer of George Floyd, the tumultuou...
Five people died Jan. 6, 2021, including a U.S. Capitol Police officer, when a mob violently invaded the U.S. Capitol in protest of the November 2020 election results. Few arrests were made that day, but our understanding of the day’s events and the rioters’ motivations has g...
sleuths who havescoured videos and picturestaken that day toidentify faces in the crowdthat might otherwise have eluded the feds. NBC News’ Ryan J. Reilly has written extensively about these“sedition hunters,”whose efforts have led to tips that resulted in rioters’ arrests and eventual ...
But the invasion of the Capitol delayed for hours the confirmation of Biden’s electoral win by a joint session of Congress, whose members fled and hid as a horde of rioters swarmed through the complex, and into the Senate chamber itself. ...
"I am inclined to pardon many of them," Trump said in a CNN town hall last May when asked about rioters convicted over Jan. 6. "I can't say for every single one because a couple of them, probably, they got out of control." ...
Even after leaving Washington, Tarrio continued to exercise command over the Proud Boys on the ground on Jan. 6, prosecutors say. His lieutenants were part of the first wave of rioters to push onto the Capitol grounds and charge past police barricades toward the building, accordi...
In November 2021,Fairlambwas the first personsentencedfor assaulting a law enforcement officer during the Jan. 6 insurrection, receiving 41 months in federal prison. Prosecutors said he incited and emboldened other rioters around him with his violent actions. ...
Court documents say that Johnston entered the upper west tunnel, where some of the most violent attacks of the Jan. 6 attack took place and “assisted at least three other rioters by pouring water on the rioters’ faces.” He then used a stolen U.S. Capitol Police shield as rioters battl...