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The Proud Boys leadership encouraged members to attend the January 6 event. Leaders used a crowdfunding website to raise money and purchase paramilitary equipment such as concealed tactical vests and radio equipment in preparation for the attack. Chapter leadership spent the days prior to, and morning of January 6, planning the attack.
The following article is a broad timeline of the course of events surrounding the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, by rioters supporting United States President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his defeat in the 2020 presidential election.
The six men, along with at least thirty others, were part of a private Telegram group which planned to attack the Capitol on January 6 and conspired to bring weapons. [ 205 ] [ 206 ] June 11, 2021 – The FBI announced arrests and charges for three people, two from Minnesota and one from Iowa, who participated in the events on Jan 6.
On January 6, Oath Keepers clad in reinforced vests and tactical gear accompanied by a German Shepherd named "Warrior" marched to the capitol building in two tactical formations known as "stacks", where they participated and led the attack. [1] After January 6, Oath Keeper leadership continued to plot to use force to oppose the transfer of power.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau noted that Canada was watching the situation "minute by minute" on the afternoon of January 6. He later called it "an attack on democracy" and said that "violence will never succeed in overruling the will of the people. Democracy in the U.S. must be upheld – and it will be."
Trump has embraced and celebrated the January 6 Capitol attack and has promoted a revisionist history of the event. [15] Trump has continually brought up the events of the January 6 attack on the Capitol during rallies and speeches for his 2024 campaign and has made it a political rallying cry.
By January 6, 2022, one year after the attack, more than 725 people had been charged for their involvement; over the following year, the number increased to more than 950. [42] [43] A thousand people had been charged with federal crimes by the end of January 2023, two years after the attack, [6] rising to more than 1,100 in August 2023. [44]
The June 2023 report by the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs about intelligence failures leading up to the attack.. On October 30, 2020, Joseph B. Maher, acting United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis issued an internal memo, writing that the department anticipates incidents of physical violence and civil ...