01-13-2021, 04:32 PM
While I believe this is associated with the general election & trump, I think it deserves its own thread because of the amount of information that will be forthcoming in the days and weeks ahead.
The Feds finally held a press conference nearly a week later. Better late than never I guess but that's an incredible amount of time to wait to be briefed after such an attack.
The FBI has received more than 100,000 “pieces of digital media” in response to a call for tips, said Steven M. D’Antuono, the assistant director in charge of the bureau’s Washington field office. It has opened more than 170 case files and is scrubbing video and interviewing witnesses, he and Michael Sherwin, the acting United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, told reporters.
Sherwin said that for all the social media sensation of characters like “the zip-tie guys,” that the portrait emerging of what happened points to “significant felony cases tied to sedition and conspiracy” and that he expects charges that could lead to felony convictions with prison terms of up to 20 years for participants in the riot. DC police and Capitol police were in open, hand-to-hand combat with people inside the Capitol, he said. “I think people are going to be shocked with some of the egregious contact that happened within the Capitol,” he said.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/01/12...ct-emerge/
The Feds finally held a press conference nearly a week later. Better late than never I guess but that's an incredible amount of time to wait to be briefed after such an attack.
The FBI has received more than 100,000 “pieces of digital media” in response to a call for tips, said Steven M. D’Antuono, the assistant director in charge of the bureau’s Washington field office. It has opened more than 170 case files and is scrubbing video and interviewing witnesses, he and Michael Sherwin, the acting United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, told reporters.
Sherwin said that for all the social media sensation of characters like “the zip-tie guys,” that the portrait emerging of what happened points to “significant felony cases tied to sedition and conspiracy” and that he expects charges that could lead to felony convictions with prison terms of up to 20 years for participants in the riot. DC police and Capitol police were in open, hand-to-hand combat with people inside the Capitol, he said. “I think people are going to be shocked with some of the egregious contact that happened within the Capitol,” he said.
https://www.washingtonian.com/2021/01/12...ct-emerge/