Former Chapel Hill Business Owner Moves From Smoothies to Sedition
Julian Khater s image on the FBI s website.
If it isn t one right-wing extremist patrolling Franklin Street, it s another one running an acai bowl restaurant.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested 32-year-old Julian Khater on Monday, as well as his friend, George Pierre Tanios of Morgantown, West Virginia, for their involvement in the January 6 insurrection attempt at the U.S. Capitol.
They are charged with conspiring to injure law enforcement officers and assaulting officers, according to the FBI s press release. In a video, Khater sprays three Capitol police officers with a chemical aerosol that temporarily blinded them. One of them was Officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died the day after the attack. While it s uncertain whether or not the spray led to his death, investigators told the