Under-the-radar court case helps piece together cop dragging during Capitol riot

[DonViejo]

By Katelyn Polantz, Marshall Cohen and Hannah Rabinowitz CNN

Updated 8:20 AM ET, Fri April 23, 2021

(CNN) - The Justice Department has built out one of its most gripping and complex investigations to date from the January 6 insurrection in a court case which has gotten far less attention than others about at least five rioters who dragged and beat police with flag poles and a crutch on the US Capitol steps.

Investigators' illustration of the violence in court contrasts notably from the rhetoric of right-wing commentators and Donald Trump himself, who have attempted to downplay anti-police violence from the former President's supporters that day.

"Every time I look at these videos, it just chokes me up," federal Judge Emmet Sullivan said at a recent court hearing, interrupting prosecutors as they made their case against the five Capitol rioters.

Sullivan was reacting to harrowing footage of three police officers wading into the crowd to save a pro-Trump rioter who was trampled -- with the police only to be stripped of their protective gear by other members of the mob, dragged and attacked with crutches, flagpoles, batons and bare hands.

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[intrepidity]

1. I'd like to watch that trial

I wonder if any of them will be broadcast?