DOJ arrests its 1,000th rioter -- and has plans to arrest hundreds more

[winetourdriver01]

As of this month, the Justice Department has arrested 1,000 people for their involvement in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, per CBS News — but they are not even close to done finding all the perpetrators.

"A new wave of cases, many of which involve higher-level charges of assaults against police, continues to expand a prosecution that is already the largest in American history," reported Scott MacFarlane. "Twenty-six months into the criminal investigation, the newest cases continue to reveal new details and evidence about alleged criminal activity amid the riotous mob."

Read more:

https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-arrests-2659513470/

[tblue37]

1. FAFO.

[emulatorloo]

2. The original CBS news story is here:

Justice Dept arrests hit 1,000 in connection with Jan. 6, and new accusations surface in latest prosecutions

BY SCOTT MACFARLANE
MARCH 6, 2023 / 8:25 PM / CBS NEWS

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-arrests-new-accusations-surface-in-latest-prosecutions/

The latest wave of newly charged defendants include a former New Jersey state trooper, the sister of a Chicago police officer and a Florida man accused of wearing a panda costume while amid the mob.

Trial success

The Justice Department has secured a nearly unblemished record in Capitol riot trials over the first two years of prosecutions. Only one defendant, a New Mexico man who requested a bench trial — with no jury and a verdict rendered by a judge — was fully acquitted. The defendant, Matthew Martin, argued he was unaware he was actually in a restricted space on Jan. 6.

Every jury to hear a U.S. Capitol riot case has returned at least a partial conviction. The latest rounds of guilty verdicts have included several for seditious conspiracy, against members of the far-right Oath Keepers group. Jurors also convicted the so-called QAnon Shaman, Jacob Chansley of Arizona, who stood in horns and fur on the Senate dais. Juries have also convicted former New York Police officer Thomas Webster and Richard Barnett of Arkansas, the man who sat with his feet on a desk in the office of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

[RockRaven]

3. Lots of plebs to deal with, yeah, must be tough... Any progress with the patricians, btw?

[ancianita]

5. In case you've been busy and you missed it ...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217635999


One example: Three months ago today, Special Counsel Jack Smith subpoenaed any and all records related to communications by state election officials with Trump or his advisers and allies, including
Kenneth Chesebro,
Justin Clark,
Joe DiGenova,
John Eastman,
Jenna Ellis,
Boris Epshteyn,
Bernard Kerik,
Bruce Marks,
Cleta Mitchell,
Matthew Morgan,
Kurt Olsen, William Olsen,
Stefan Passantino,
Sidney Powell,
Bill Stepien,
Victoria Toensing,
James Troupis and
Lin Wood, between June 1, 2020, and Jan. 20, 2021.

[RockRaven]

6. So no arrests or indictments when it comes to patricians yet, you acknowledge?

[Beastly Boy]

8. Who are the patricians?

That's a strange choice of a word. The term implies members of a ruling elite, but I doubt you are calling for indiscriminate arrests among the ruling class. So your definition of the term must be an unconventional one.

Then again, if you define patricians as those who have not been arrested yet, and then ask whether they have been arrested yet, what use is your question?

So please be more specific.

[republianmushroom]

4. How is the 14th amendment coming along ?

[asiliveandbreathe]

7. Huh? Are you suggesting, ahem, the 14th needs to be amended, and in what way

or, repealed and why??...we'll wait for your response..

[republianmushroom]

9. No, I would like to see it invoked.

25 months and counting