Seattle Police Department (SPD) is investigating reports of a shooting after one person was killed in Capitol Hill early Monday morning. According to SPD, 911 (CARE) received a report of a shooting in the 1000 block of East Pike Street shortly before 12:30 a.m. Police found one person who had been shot and provided aid […]
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Texas man pleads guilty for actions toward police officers at Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot
A Texas man pleaded guilty on Friday to assaulting officers at the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, the United States Attorney’s Office District of Columbia announced in a news release. Kyle Douglas McMahan, 42, of Watauga, pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers — a felony. He will learn his sentence on Sept. […]
Capitol Riot Defendants Celebrate Supreme Court’s Ruling: ‘We Won!’
After the U.S. Supreme Court threw out an obstruction charge against a former police officer for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, directly across the street from the court, on Friday morning, other alleged insurrectionists celebrated. “I should have never been charged with felony Obstruction, and neither should hundreds of […]
U.S. Capitol and Fresno protester convicted in DC riot. Supreme Court ruled on charges
A Madera man who made news in Fresno for anti-mask protests during the COVID-19 pandemic was convicted for his actions at the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol in Washington D.C., prosecutors said on Thursday. The conviction came the day before a decision by the Supreme Court that could lead to overturned and reduced […]
Supreme Court makes it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, charge Trump faces
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, a charge used in hundreds of prosecutions and also faced by former President Donald Trump. The justices ruled 6-3 that the charge of obstructing an official proceeding, enacted in 2002 in response to the financial scandal that […]
Top US court makes it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction
The US Supreme Court on Friday made it harder to charge Capitol riot defendants with obstruction, a charge that has also been brought against former president Donald Trump. The justices ruled that the charge of obstructing an official proceeding, enacted in 2002 in response to the financial scandal that brought down Enron Corp, must include […]
Trump downplays role on Jan. 6 and says some Capitol rioters are ‘innocent’
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump downplayed his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol during the first presidential debate Thursday, saying some people “asked me to go make a speech,” minimizing his involvement in efforts to overturn the election and the summoning of thousands of his followers to Washington for what […]
Kristi Noem pushes pardoning US Capitol attackers so ‘we don’t see another January 6’
Kristi Noem, once a contender to be the Republicans’ vice-presidential nominee, has argued that people facing charges over the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol should be individually evaluated for pardons – so as to minimize the chances of a repeat. “Each of those situations needs to be looked at separately,” Noem said […]
Man sentenced to 30 days in jail after bringing firearms twice to Wisconsin’s state Capitol
The man accused of bringing firearms twice to the Wisconsin state Capitol to confront Gov. Tony Evers last year has been sentenced to serve 30 days in the Dane County Jail for one misdemeanor charge, according to Wisconsin online court records. Joshua Pleasnick, 44, pleaded guilty to one count of carrying a firearm in a […]
Ex-U.S. Capitol officer Harry Dunn brings campaign message to Milwaukee: Remember Jan. 6
Former U.S. Capitol officer Harry Dunn came to Milwaukee with a message for voters: Don’t forget Jan. 6, 2021. “I’m out here pushing back against the lies that Donald Trump is saying about that, specifically about that day,” Dunn told the Journal Sentinel at a democracy-focused discussion hosted by the voter mobilization group Souls to […]
Another South Carolinian pleads guilty in Jan. 6 Capitol riot case
Another South Carolina man has pleaded guilty to a felony charge of assaulting an officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, riots, when thousands of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to try to prevent Joe Biden from becoming president. Christopher George Rockey, 54, of Cross, in Berkeley County, admitted his guilt Wednesday in court in Washington […]
Auburn woman sentenced in Jan. 6 Capitol riot, expresses regret for her actions
Jun. 13—WASHINGTON — A judge imposed one year of probation Thursday on an Auburn woman who admitted to two federal misdemeanors stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol building. Kimberly Sylvester, 59, appeared in U.S. District Court by videoconference where a judge sentenced her to two, one-year terms of probation to […]