The Feds Have Made 625+ Capitol Riot Arrests. They Still Have A Long Way To Go.

[Nevilledog]

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Ryan J. Reilly
@ryanjreilly
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Oct 6, 2021
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Nine months after the Jan. 6 attack, authorities have made 625+ arrests.

But that’s still just a quarter of the universe of potential Jan. 6 defendants who engaged in chargeable conduct.

Our analysis, with much credit to @SeditionHunters:

The Feds Have Made 625+ Capitol Riot Arrests. They Still Have A Long Way To Go.
Nine months after the Jan. 6 attack, the FBI has nabbed a quarter of the estimated 2,500 potential Capitol defendants.
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Ryan J. Reilly
@ryanjreilly
Get that ~800 number out of your head. The universe of defendants who committed conduct that federal prosecutors have determined warrants criminal charges is ~2,500.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/feds-made-capitol-riot-arrests-quarter-way-there_n_615c6fafe4b0f7776310fe37

Last November, as then-President Donald Trump ramped up his dangerous lies about mass voter fraud, a man hopped into a Hummer bearing a QAnon sticker and headed to a Philadelphia vote-counting location to stop what he believed was an election that was being stolen. The QAnon obsessive, along with a co-founder of Vets for Trump, were arrested by Philadelphia police, who found them in possession of an AR-style rifle and a samurai sword.

Two months later, in the nation’s capital, the same QAnon follower stormed the U.S. Capitol, entering the building alongside dozens of fellow conspiracy theorists who had bought into Trump’s lies about the outcome of the 2020 election. Now, nine months after the Jan. 6 attack, he’s one of hundreds of Trump supporters who were captured on video violating federal law that day, but who haven’t yet faced federal charges for their conduct.

Federal authorities have posted some impressive numbers in the nine months since Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in support of his lies about a stolen election, and then left the scene without being arrested, leaving behind injured officers and millions of dollars in damage and security costs. The feds have made more than 625 arrests since Jan. 6 as part of what authorities have repeatedly described as one of the largest investigative and prosecutorial efforts in American history.

Yet even with hundreds of arrests and months of painstaking work in the unprecedented investigation, federal authorities have arrested just a fraction of all the potential defendants who were captured on video committing criminal offenses that prosecutors have said warrant charges.

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[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. I thought they weren't doing anything?

I’m read that here daily…

[napi21]

2. I hope they keep going until they've exhausted all avenues to get them ALL! They've got to

put fear into these JA's or they'll keep up the destruction . The next riot would be worse & involve deaths! They have to understand their fearless braggard cannot nor would not pay their fines nor serve their time!