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Fifteen people were charged with the attack on the Capitol of U.Sincluding the man pictured in the office of Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, announced yesterday Justice.
“We have announced fifteen charges from federal justice,” he said at a news conference Ken Kohl, from the office of Washington Federal Attorney.
Among the accused is one who was 11 Molotov cocktails parked in a car near Congress, as well as another one who took down a police officer and another who came in with a loaded revolver, he said.
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Police identified as Richard Barnett the person who sat in the office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi. Photo: AFP |
Richard Barnett, which are the offices of the Presidency of the House of Representatives where he posed for cameras and left abusive messages, he was arrested in Arkansas and charged with “violent burglary,” Kohl said.
Other arrests and charges will be carried out, he promised. “Literally hundreds of prosecutors and agents work 24/7 in three command centers,” he added.
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The Attorney General of the United States opens a federal criminal case for the death of a police officer in the attack Congresslocal media reported yesterday.
The agent Brian Sicknick from Capitol Police He was one of five fatalities in the attack carried out by Trump supporters to interrupt a session confirming Democrat Joe Biden’s election victory.
The officer died Thursday “as a result of injuries he sustained while engaged in the assault on the Congress by Trump supporters, ”as confirmed by police in a statement.
The official version states that Sicknick was injured “while physically confronting the protesters”; but some media outlets have indicated that he was hit on the head by one of the attackers with a fire extinguisher. The officer collapsed when he returned to his office, for which he was taken to hospital, where he died 24 hours later.
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The man who is on the attack Congress He came in and took pictures of himself in the president’s office Low camera, Nancy Pelosi, was arrested in Arkansas this Friday, authorities said.
The individual, identified as Richard Barnett, He has been charged with trespassing into a restricted building, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol Hill, and stealing public property, by mail from the legislature that he allegedly took after posing for photographers.