'Unprecedented': Feds Say Hundreds Of Trump Rioters Can Expect A Knock On The Door

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Federal officials sent a strong, if delayed, message to the public on Tuesday about the Trump-inspired attack on the U.S. Capitol, announcing that hundreds of cases would be brought against the insurrectionists, part of a violent mob that killed a policeman.

Michael Sherwin, acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said at a press briefing that the U.S. Capitol was essentially a crime scene and that the FBI was working around the clock to hunt down the hundreds, if not thousands, of Trump supporters who committed crimes and were allowed to leave the building.

“The scope and scale of this are unprecedented, not only in FBI history but probably DOJ history,” Sherwin said.

Sherwin said that more than 170 subject file cases had already been opened and that the number of charges was going to “geometrically increase.”

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-capitol-rioters-fbi-doj-210945208.html

Lock them up!!!!

[soothsayer]

1. I'm very proud of these feds!

[Raven123]

2. Will need a bigger budget, more resources.

[Bluethroughu]

3. I'm very thankful they see this insurrection seriously

Accountability is the only way through this.

[LakeVermilion]

4. Think of the chant: "Lock her up"

Hillary on the outside, the chanters in lockup.

What irony!

[empedocles]

5. May introduce some trepidation among some of the headstrong ones - at least.

[My wife and daughter both loved the revenge of some of the ex-wives identifying Capitol suspects. Seems that there may be more to come, including ex-partners, ex-business associates, etc.].

[RockRaven]

6. Once the computer forensic people get digging deep into cellphone/WiFi data, they will

identify so damn many perps. Even ones who weren't posting shit on social media.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. They should go after every last one that was violent or entered the capitol

Even if the sentence is light

[SheltieLover]

9. Or conspired, incited, enabled, etc.

NO light sentences!

[msongs]

8. getting back at trump by way of his criminal minions nt

[localroger]

10. I expect a lot of people who didn't even enter the building will get calls or visits

...even if they're not eventually charged. The FBI will want their statements and witness testimony to tie together who else was with who else to complete the puzzle. And in 7 days there will be nobody at DOJ to hold back the prosecutions that result.

[LearnedHand]

11. Very interesting characterization of the rate increase in charges

I take they mean it literally: for every new one charged, there is a predictable relatively fixed number of new charges that will arise as the arrestees sing like canaries.

Edit: And fuck the insurgents all the way off; what, they expected ticker tape parades?

[Cozmo]

12. It's easy to talk tough now. Where were YOU on 1/6/21

If I knew this could happen then so did YOU. This has been appalling. Fuck you tRump and all your enablers

[W T F]

13. LOL, now, they are the "illegals" let's deport them to Europe and take their kids away from them😂

[Grokenstein]

16. America doesn't get to dump its human garbage on everyone else.

America watched them grow, America ignored the threat, America has to clean up the mess.

[DENVERPOPS]

14. It would be completely appropriate

for the officers to do a NO KNOCK raid on their homes.......

[dalton99a]

15. +1. And 'Please don't be too nice'

[Cha]

17. But RW Cable says it's Anti-Fascists

trying to Overthrow an Election that they WON.. Stupid Drip Shits!

[Xolodno]

18. The irony, right wingers always push for tough on crime legislation.

That is, more monitoring, larger law enforcement budgets, more tech to identify perpetrators, etc. Funny how it comes back to bite them on the ass.