A New Jersey gym owner and a Washington state man have become the first people charged in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol to plead guilty to assaulting a law enforcement officer during the deadly siege.
The pair of plea deals with federal prosecutors could be a benchmark for dozens of other cases in which Capitol rioters are charged with attacking police as part of an effort to halt the certification of President Biden’s election victory.
A video showed him holding a collapsible baton and shouting, “What [do] patriots do? We f— disarm them and then we storm the f— Capitol!” “I think it’s dangerous to start throwing around ‘domestic terrorism’ in circumstances like this,” he said.U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth set a sentencing date of Sept. 27 for both Thompson and Fairlamb, who has been jailed since his Jan. 22 arrest at his home in Stockholm, N.J.A Senate investigation of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has identified broad government, military and law-enforcement missteps.
Fairlamb pleaded guilty to two counts, obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting a Metropolitan Police Department officer. The counts carry a maximum of more than 20 years in prison.
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