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Thomas Webster, retired police officer, sentenced in 2022 to 10 years in prison for attacking an officer with a flagpole and tackling him. [37] [40] Christopher J. Worrell, a Proud Boy member, sentenced in 2024 to 10 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray. [41]
The first active-duty service member to be charged in relation to the events of January 6. He allegedly pushed through a line of police officers guarding the Capitol's East Rotunda doors, held them open for others to enter the building, and later pushed a Capitol police officer who attempted to close them. [178] [179] [180] January 19, 2021
The remaining 14 people, though their convictions stood, were eligible for immediate release from prison, as he commuted their sentences to "time served." [18] [2] Trump himself had been indicted in August 2023 for his actions related to the Capitol attack, but the indictment was dismissed after his 2024 election.
Supporters of the rioters cheered his blanket pardon on Monday, and have long described the sentences handed out to people they call "J6 hostages" and "political prisoners" as being politically ...
Trump has called Jan. 6 detainees “hostages” and even opens rallies by playing a recording from the “J6 Prison Choir. ... Lang was being held in the jail in Washington but was transferred to ...
The former president even featured a song by the “J6 Prison Choir,” a group of men imprisoned for their participation in the attack on the Capitol, at his first 2024 campaign rally.
The Secret Service denied this, [188] with Watkins later changing her story, [189] and being sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in 2023. [ 190 ] Mo Brooks was a featured speaker at the rally and spoke around 9 a.m., where he said, "Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass".
Rally organizers told the National Park Service that they anticipated 30,000 people would attend. Law enforcement said the crowd size ahead of the protest was possibly as much as 80,000, according ...