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BumRushDaShow

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11. Correct.
Sat Jan 9, 2021, 10:09 PM
Jan 2021

This particular file is from the D.C. Metro police. There were apparently other arrests made by other LEO (federal - e.g., Capitol Police, and possibly others like the Secret Service, NPS, ATF, etc) in the area.

Almost every article I stumble upon now have started listing assorted names of people who have been charged with federal crimes vs local D.C. statue crimes. Have been trying to find the last article I saw but it indicated that some decisions were being made about who would charge for what and how due to there apparently being more serious consequences for federal vs municipal. One of the articles I saw was this -

DOJ: 13 Charged in Federal Court in Connection to Deadly Capitol Insurrection

The Justice Department announced charges against 13 people Friday in connection with the deadly Pro-Trump riots at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday.
By Claire Hansen, Staff Writer Jan. 8, 2021, at 5:43 p.m.

Thirteen people have been charged in federal court so far for crimes related to the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, including a man who is accused of having 11 Molotov cocktails and two firearms, the Justice Department said Friday. Another 40 people have been arrested and charged in D.C. Superior Court.

(snip)

"The lawless destruction of the U.S. Capitol building was an attack against one of our Nation's greatest institutions," acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin said in a statement. "My Office, along with our law enforcement partners at all levels, have been expeditiously working and leveraging every resource to identify, arrest, and begin prosecuting these individuals who took part in the brazen criminal acts at the U.S. Capitol."

(snip)

Capitol Police initially announced 14 related arrests Thursday morning, and D.C. police said they had arrested nearly 70 people in the wake of the violence, many for violating curfew. Law enforcement have made more arrests since then.

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2021-01-08/doj-13-charged-in-federal-court-in-connection-to-deadly-capitol-insurrection


So they have been assessing what people were doing and divvying out "who" will do the charging. There were piles of people "protesting" outside on the street (not on the Capitol grounds) and many were still out there past curfew so they got arrested by the D.C. Metro police. But a number who bashed their way inside and and started swinging from the Senate galley or were bursting into the Parliamentarian's Office and trashing it, were most likely those who got or would get the "federal treatment".

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