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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe photo accompanying this article is absolutely terrifying.
I cant imagine what this angry mob sounded like.
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The Department of Justice is working to build sedition and conspiracy charges against some of the rioters who stormed the Capitol last week, the top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.C., said Tuesday.
Michael Sherwin, the acting U.S. attorney for D.C., said in a press conference that he has assembled a team of national security attorneys to explore some of the harshest charges his office could pursue in the wake of the riot that overran the Capitol and left five people dead Wednesday.
"Just yesterday, our office organized a strike force of very senior national security prosecutors and public corruption prosecutors," Sherwin told reporters. "Their only marching orders from me are to build seditious and conspiracy charges related to the most heinous acts that occurred in the Capitol."
Sedition charges can carry prison sentences of up to 20 years.
Sherwin said Tuesday that prosecutors have now charged more than 70 cases following the riot and the FBI has opened investigations into more than 170 people.
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/533898-prosecutors-building-sedition-and-conspiracy-charges-against-some
stopdiggin
(11,358 posts)orleans
(34,073 posts)johnp3907
(3,732 posts)Ohiogal
(32,052 posts)There was one still shot of the rioters, there were SO MANY of them, with all their flags and angry faces. It scared me to death.
Now I tried it again just now and theyre showing a compilation of videos (which are still terrifying)
It takes a few seconds to load.
Im sorry if anyone cant see it, I dont know what happened.
spanone
(135,869 posts)It's happened to me several times...
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)very informative.
Ohiogal
(32,052 posts)BootinUp
(47,185 posts)octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Ohiogal
(32,052 posts)LeftInTX
(25,543 posts)Ohiogal
(32,052 posts)Very maddening