Two men from New Jersey and Washington state are the first defendants to plead guilty to assaulting police in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.
Calling Thompson’s “an vital case,” Assistant U.S. Lawyer Tejpal Chawla stated the defendant was “on the entrance traces of essentially the most harmful violence on the Capitol,” putting an officer with a baton and conscious that others have been assaulting officers with weapons together with bear spray, Tasers, javelins, golf equipment, bats and the officers’ personal shields.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/native/legal-issues/first-guilty-pleas-police-assault/2021/08/06/c966ab9a-f6c3-11eb-9068-bf463c8c74de_story.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=wp_politics | Two males from New Jersey and Washington state are the primary defendants to plead responsible to assaulting police within the Jan. 6 Capitol assault.
