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Ohiogal

(32,052 posts)
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 06:16 PM Jan 2021

The photo accompanying this article is absolutely terrifying.

I can’t 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

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The photo accompanying this article is absolutely terrifying. (Original Post) Ohiogal Jan 2021 OP
best ACTUAL news I've come across today (nt) stopdiggin Jan 2021 #1
the photo so terrifying i don't even see a photo with the article n/t orleans Jan 2021 #2
Me neither. johnp3907 Jan 2021 #4
When I first clicked on the article Ohiogal Jan 2021 #5
They're constantly changing the headlines and videos/pictures on their homepages spanone Jan 2021 #8
This happened to me too. I don't see the photo but the article is Mike 03 Jan 2021 #10
Thank you. Ohiogal Jan 2021 #13
👍🏼 spanone Jan 2021 #14
It's video and takes awhile to load for me BootinUp Jan 2021 #7
What photo? octoberlib Jan 2021 #3
See my post above Ohiogal Jan 2021 #6
Photo may no longer be in the article..check the link LeftInTX Jan 2021 #11
They must have changed it since I first posted this Ohiogal Jan 2021 #12
That's what I was about to post. (nm) Elwood P Dowd Jan 2021 #9

Ohiogal

(32,052 posts)
5. When I first clicked on the article
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 06:29 PM
Jan 2021

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 they’re showing a compilation of videos (which are still terrifying)

It takes a few seconds to load.

I’m sorry if anyone can’t see it, I don’t know what happened.

spanone

(135,869 posts)
8. They're constantly changing the headlines and videos/pictures on their homepages
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 06:35 PM
Jan 2021

It's happened to me several times...

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