By Clare Hymes, Cassidy McDonald, Eleanor Watson
April 8, 2021 / 7:30 PM / CBS News Evidence shows extremists coordinated Capitol riot
America watched as hordes of rioters broke into the U.S. Capitol on January 6 crushing through windows, pressing up stairways, and sending lawmakers and law enforcement running for their lives. The flood of protesters who streamed into the Capitol that day left federal authorities with an equally immense task: finding and charging those responsible.
In an March interview with 60 Minutes, Michael Sherwin, a federal prosecutor who led the criminal investigation until March 19, said, we re over 400 criminal cases.
Prosecutors have called the case unprecedented in scale, and the government said in a court filing March 12, The Capitol Attack is likely the most complex investigation ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice.
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[Opinion] Former Cop Arrested for Storming Capitol Was Once Named Officer of the Year After Falsely Accusing Black Man of Murder Michael Harriot © Photo: FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force
A former Utah police officer who won one of his department’s highest honors for a false murder arrest has been charged with crossing the “thin blue line” in the Jan. 6 plot to overthrow the U.S. government.
The FBI’s joint terrorism task force, along with Utah’s State Bureau of Investigation, arrested retired Salt Lake City police officer Michael Lee Hardin on Friday, or, as the New York Post describes it, took Hardin “into custody without incident.” Apparently, the deadly “incident” at the Capitol where three officers died doesn’t count. According to the criminal complaint, Hardin was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or ground