Trump’s 6 Jan. Violent Protests Shown on Video

After Daniel Rodriguez pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer during the attack on the Capitol by a pro-Trump crowd on January 6, 2021, a federal judge sentenced him to 12 years in prison He was so powerful that he was called “an army of hatred.”

Two other men, Albuquerque Cosper Head and Kyle J. Young, were sentenced to more than seven years in prison for their roles in the attack on the officer, Michael Fanone.

On Monday, President Trump pardoned three of them, bringing them together with nearly 1,600 others who were charged in the Jan. 6 riots and said they were facing criminal charges. politics. Their pardons came despite overwhelming evidence of their crimes, including videos used against them by the Justice Department.

Some of the videos capture the horrific moment when Officer Fanone rushes to protect the Capitol on his day off, is dragged into the crowd by Mr. Head, beaten by Mr. Young and then attacked Mr. Rodriguez with a gun.

Video from Officer Fanone’s body camera shows Mr. Rodriguez bringing the stun gun to Officer Fanone’s throat, causing him to scream. Officer Fanone, who retired from the police force and suffered a heart attack, was seriously injured that day.

Even Mr. Trump’s closest allies have opposed granting amnesty to rioters found guilty of violent crimes, particularly the more than 600 who have been convicted of assaulting or resisting police. Of those accused, nearly 175 used a dangerous or deadly weapon, prosecutors said.

Four years later, their violence is still shocking — and the reality of what happened can be seen in photos, many of which are now famous.

Here are some of the most horrific acts of violence that occurred during the attack on the Capitol, as seen on video.

An hour-long battle between the rioters and a large number of police officers at the entrance to the Capitol left Mr. Fanone unconscious. In the same process, an Arkansas man named Peter Stager used an American flag to attack another officer who was lying on the ground after being dragged through the crowd.

Edward Jacob Lang was accused of using a baseball bat to beat officers who were guarding the entrance to the Capitol. He was released on Tuesday night without ever going to trial, and said: “The bonds of slavery will no longer be felt in this country. This is a great day in the history of the United States. “

At the beginning of this riot, dozens of police officers were attacked while trying to hold back a group of hundreds of people at a barricade outside the Capitol.

One of the people who attacked officers there was Thomas Webster, a former officer with the New York Police Department. Mr Webster, who also served in the Marine Corps, was eventually sentenced to 10 years in prison after being found guilty of swinging a metal pole at an officer before pushing him into the the police cordon and attacked him.

Peter Schwartz, a welder from Pennsylvania, appeared at the Capitol on January 6 armed with a wooden wheel, prosecutors said, and eventually attacked police with a chair and chemical spray. He was later sentenced to 14 years in prison.

Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, received a 22-year prison sentence, the longest of any person charged, on January 6. Rehl — in a conspiracy of rebellion. A fifth defendant in the case, Dominic Pezzola, has been convicted of other crimes.

According to Mr. Trump’s order on Monday night, Mr. Tarrio received a full pardon. Others commuted their prison sentences to time served.

A 2022 New York Times investigation of hundreds of court documents, text messages and videotapes shows how these men handled the chaos at the Capitol during several weeks and led to many violations in the Capitol on January 6.

Mr. Trump’s sweeping amnesty is his latest attempt to rewrite the history of Jan. 6. He tried to eliminate the violence of that day and return it to the “day of love”.

Mr Trump said the order would “end the national injustice inflicted on the American people over the last four years” and begin “a process of national reconciliation”.

But, according to some federal judges in Washington who have overseen hundreds of recent Capitol riot cases, nothing — not even an executive order — can change the facts of that day. this.

“There was no ‘national injustice’ here, just as there was no fraud in the 2020 presidential election,” Judge Beryl A. Howell wrote in Wednesday’s ruling. canceled the case against two defendants on January 6 in the government. request. “No ‘reconciliation process’ can begin when the poor losers, who lost the election of their favorite candidate, are honored for disrupting the constitutional process of Congress and doing so without there is a penalty.”

“This court,” Judge Howell concluded, “cannot stand the revisionist myth conveyed in that presidential announcement.”