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Off-duty cops, other officials face reckoning after rallying for Trump during US Capitol siege
Supporters of US President Donald Trump protest in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, US on Jan 6, 2021. (Photo: Reuters/Stephanie Keith)
14 Jan 2021 09:21AM (Updated:
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WASHINGTON: As rioters scaled scaffolding outside the US Capitol, Roxanne Mathai held up her mobile phone to record the sea of supporters of President Donald Trump storming America’s bastion of democracy.
“We’re going in, tear gas and all,” said the 46-year-old Texas jailer.
Dozens of public servants including firefighters, lawmakers, teachers, municipal workers, law enforcement and military personnel joined events that became the siege on the U.S. Capitol.
Man shown with feet on Nancy Pelosi s desk arrested in Arkansas By Zoe Christen Jones Charges announced related to Wednesday s riot
The Arkansas man shown sitting at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi s desk inside the U.S. Capitol this week has been taken into custody, federal authorities said Friday.
Richard Barnett, of Gravette, was taken into custody early Friday. He is currently being charged with at least three counts: knowingly entering and remaining in a restricted building, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and theft of public property, according to Ken Kohl, the principal assistant U.S. Attorney in D.C.
West Virginia lawmaker Derrick Evans faces federal charges in Capitol siege By Erin Donaghue Lawmaker among mob that seized Capitol
A West Virginia state lawmaker who filmed himself storming into the U.S. Capitol along with a mob of supporters of President Donald Trump is now facing federal charges, the U.S. District Attorney s office for the District of Columbia said Friday.
West Virginia State Delegate Derrick Evans is charged with entering a restricted area, Ken Kohl, principal assistant U.S. Attorney for D.C., said on a press call.
Evans is among 15 people who have been charged at the federal level so far, including an Arkansas man who was photographed with his feet up on a desk in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and another man found with 11 Molotov cocktails along with an assault rifle and two handguns in his Alabama-registered truck. The U.S. Attorney s office has charged 40 others in D.C. Superior Court, officials say.