Prosecutors: January 6 rioters committed more than 1,000 assaults on police

Prosecutors have already charged more than 100 defendants on Capitol Hill with assaulting or preventing police officers from the United States Capitol and the DC Metropolitan Police Department. More than 130 officers were injured in violence unleashed by the mob of supporters of then-President Donald Trump, who stormed the Capitol as Congress was in the process of certifying Joe Biden’s victory at the presidential election of 2020. An officer died shortly after the attack and several others committed suicide in the weeks and months that followed.

Trump has in recent months sought to rewrite the history of his supporters’ actions inside Capitol Hill, saying they were peaceful and especially well behaved towards the police. The new statistic, however, highlights the intense violence of the attack and the fact that prosecutors are still looking for dozens, if not hundreds, of suspects in some of today’s violent crimes.

In fact, the FBI released on Wednesday a newsletter ask for help in identifying two rioters who assaulted a journalist inside the Capitol.

Prosecutors also revealed in the file that they were uploading 7,000 hours of Capitol surveillance footage to their evidence-gathering systems and determined that another 7,000 hours of footage was not relevant to the government. case.