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Almost a thousand people have been charged, convicted, or accepted plea deals in connection with the January 6 attack — the largest-scale criminal prosecution ever to take place in U.S. history.
The charges range from misdemeanor picketing and trespass to assault on police officers, as well as seditious conspiracy charges against ringleaders of the far-right groups the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.
A Marine Corps veteran who participated in the January 6 insurrection just received 68 months in prison — the longest sentence of anyone involved in the attack to date — shortly after giving a tearful speech to the judge trying to beg for leniency,
"Daniel Caldwell, a 51-year-old Marine Corps veteran, delivered a tearful apology in court to the officers he sprayed,..Though no officers directly attributed their injuries that day to Caldwell’s actions, Kollar-Kotelly said his actions undoubtedly contributed to their physical and psychological trauma."
“I must face my actions head on,” said Caldwell tearfully, in his speech. “I hope that you and our country never have to face another day like January 6th.”
Caldwell, a resident of The Colony, Texas, was caught on video using a chemical spray on more than a dozen police officers at the Capitol, making some violently sick and causing at least one to "vomit uncontrollably."...
Almost a thousand people have been charged, convicted, or accepted plea deals in connection with the January 6 attack — the largest-scale criminal prosecution ever to take place in U.S. history. The charges range from misdemeanor picketing and trespass to assault on police officers, as well as seditious conspiracy charges against ringleaders of the far-right groups the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.