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Justice Department moves to toss seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the far-right extremist groups in attacking the U.S. Capitol to keep President Donald Trump in office over five years ago.
Trump commuted the prison sentences of several Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders last January in a sweeping act of clemency for all 1,500-plus defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.
The request by the Justice Department would go a step further and erase all the convictions for extremist group leaders, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, who didn’t receive pardons last January.
The move to abandon the convictions represented a stunning reversal from the Biden administration, which hailed the guilty verdicts as a crucial victory in its bid to hold accountable those responsible for what prosecutors described as an attack on the heart of American democracy. It’s part of the Trump administration’s continued efforts to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6 attack and downplay the violence carried out by the mob of Trump supporters that left more than 100 police officers injured.
AP correspondent Ben Thomas reports the Justice Department is seeking the dismissal of seditious conspiracy convictions over the Capitol Riot.
In court filings, prosecutors asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to vacate the convictions so that the government can permanently dismiss the indictments.
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“The government’s motion to vacate in this case is consistent with its practice of moving the Supreme Court to vacate convictions in cases where the government has decided in its prosecutorial discretion that dismissal of a criminal case is in the interests of justice — motions that the Supreme Court routinely grants,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing signed by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro.
Juries in Washington, D.C., convicted the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders of orchestrating violent plots to stop the peaceful transfer of power after Trump’s 2020 election loss to Democratic President Joe Biden.
The department’s dismissal request also includes the convictions of Oath Keepers members Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson and Jessica Watkins and Proud Boys members Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola.
Other extremist group members, including former Proud Boys national chairman Enrique Tarrio, received pardons from Trump on the first day of his second term in the White House.
Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison after he and several lieutenants were convicted in one of the most consequential cases arising from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters.
Prosecutors said Rhodes and his followers stockpiled guns for possible use by “quick reaction force” teams at a Virginia hotel, but they never deployed the weapons.
Nordean’s attorney, Nicholas Smith, said they are grateful to the Justice Department for its “wise decision” in seeking dismissal of the convictions.
“We don’t want a precedent that says that any physical confrontation between protesters and law enforcement means a crime akin to treason, such as seditious conspiracy,” Smith said.
Former Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who was dragged into the mob and suffered a heart attack after a rioter shocked him with a stun gun, was disappointed but not surprised by the latest milestone in the dismantling of Capitol riot prosecutions.
“I would remind Americans that these were traitors to this country,” Fanone said. “They planned, incited and carried out an insurrection.”
Richer covers the Justice Department and federal courts. She joined The AP in 2013 and is based in Washington.
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Trump White House 'engaged' as Republicans attempt 'pathetic' rewrite of J6 history
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures beside U.S. first lady Melania Trump as they leave the U.S. Capitol building on the inauguration day of Donald Trump's second presidential term in Washington, U.S. January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
Matt Lasloand Raw StoryJune 27, 2025 | 07:32AM ET
WASHINGTON — The Jan. 6, 2021 attack is once again the talk of Capitol Hill.
While Democrats are hanging replica plaques across the Capitol pressuring Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to display an official congressionally-mandated plaque honoring Capitol Police officers for defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, President Donald Trump continues quietly pressuring Republican congressional leaders to formally investigate the bipartisan select Jan. 6 committee that disbanded in 2023.
“The president wants it,” Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) told Raw Story.
Even so, the ball seems to be in Johnson's court, and he’s remained mum since saying he would launch his own J6 investigation at the start of the year.
Low-level form of legislative civil disobedience
In 2022, while the Capitol was still undergoing post-riot repairs, lawmakers from both parties came together and passed a law requiring a plaque for the west front of the Capitol — where officers were first overrun on Jan. 6, 2021 — honoring the men and women of the Capitol Police who protected Congress in the face of violent insurrectionists.
Three years later and there’s still no official plaque, which is why a handful of House Democrats, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), unveiled their own replica plaques this week.
“It is a very low-level form of legislative civil disobedience,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told Raw Story.
As the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, Raskin says the speaker is flaunting the very Constitution he swore an oath to uphold.
“The speaker is in violation of the law. That's an indefensible posture for a speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives,” Raskin said. “Our poster replicas are saying, we are going to go ahead and honor the officers until Mike Johnson starts following the law.”
To many of the lawmakers left trapped in the House gallery on Jan. 6, 2021, let alone Capitol Police officers themselves, the plaque is personal.
“It's important so that nobody ever forgets the truth,” Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) told Raw Story.
Escobar says the refusal to hang the plaque shows Republican "tough on crime" rhetoric is mere lip service.
“It’s evidence of the fact that they really aren't interested in supporting law enforcement. That's what it comes down to,” Escobar said. “They are so afraid of Donald Trump, and these were his soldiers.”
Democrats accuse the speaker of thumbing his nose at the Capitol Police officers who protect him daily.
“It's pathetic,” Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) told Raw Story. “The speaker won't put it up. So I don't know what the hell's the problem, but it's an insult to our brave men and women in law enforcement who protected us that day.”
McGovern’s the top Democrat — or ranking member — of the House Rules Committee, which plays the all-important role of providing parameters for debate before any measure can be voted on by the full House of Representatives.
The veteran Massachusetts congressman says he plans to use that perch to regularly remind Republicans of their party’s sin of omission.
“I'm gonna raise it in every Rule I do now,” McGovern said. “Why isn’t the plaque up? Why is it not displayed? Why is he disobeying — why is the speaker disobeying the law?”
The White House is engaged
On the other side of the aisle, some Republicans are also wondering where the official plaque is.
“I'm surprised, personally surprised it hasn't been done," Loudermilk said. “I don't think that's controversial. Regardless of who did what, who started it, who was responsible — there was violence here that the Capitol Police were engaged in.”
Even though Loudermilk wants to investigate the former select Jan. 6 committee, he says commemorating the heroism of the Capitol Police is the least Congress can do.
“We've got some colleagues saying, ‘Well, there's nothing more than a tour.’ I'm like, ‘No, it was way beyond that.’ There was violence,” Loudermilk said. “There was violence on both sides. I mean, of course, police had to counter the violence. I don't have a problem with having the plaque honoring the Capitol Police and what they've done.”
Still, Loudermilk dismisses the work of the bipartisan Jan. 6 select committee, which is why he continues calling on the speaker to let him formally launch his own investigation.
“There's been no movement on it. I would say there's been a negotiation going on, but it's just been a one-sided negotiation,” Loudermilk said.
With Congress rushing to wrap up an array of measures ahead of their July Fourth recess, Loudermilk is hoping to get the speaker’s ear this week.
“I'm hoping by the end of the week we'll have something,” Loudermilk exclusively told Raw Story. “The White House is engaged.”
After interviewing upwards of 1,000 witnesses, reviewing thousands of documents and releasing a detailed 814-page report on their findings, Democrats who served on the panel dismiss this latest White House effort as a smokescreen intended to distract from the damning details they uncovered.
“The January 6 select committee may have produced the most successful legislative investigation, certainly in the 21st Century, and one of the most successful ones in the history of the US Congress,” Raskin told Raw Story. “We produced a report. They have not laid a glove on a single detail in that report. They're trying to rewrite history.”
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Newsmax's Greg Kelly: “We need another real investigation about January 6, looking at the cops”
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May 28, 2025, edition of Newsmax's Greg Kelly Reports A VERB?
GREG KELLY (HOST): Mike Johnson, I'm expecting more out of you.
Speaker Johnson, come on — you said this year that you were going to establish a new select subcommittee for the 119th Congress to continue House Republicans' investigation into all events leading up to and after January 6.
Now, a couple of things about this, folks. He announced his intent. Right? And what does he say there at the end, into all events leading up to and after January 6, right? Up to and after January 6? What's that all about? What about on January 6? You see, he's playing a little bit of a game there. OK. What else? We are establishing this select subcommittee to continue our efforts to uncover the full truth that is owed to the American people. Well, do it already. Do it. He's not doing it. All right, we can. Yeah. Yep, yep. You see, all events leading up to and after January 6 seems a little fishy to me.
All right, one other thing about this January 6 stuff and somebody who might just turn out to be an ally. See you later, Speaker Johnson. Officer Harry Dunn. Now, I don't like him. We were just talking about this guy. I picked up his book and I found something kind of fascinating in the book. Listen to what was different for him about January 6. Check this out. It's pretty wild.
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KELLY: Brand new helmets, OK. Brand new helmets. What's so special about brand new helmets? Brand new helmets on January 6? I'm not raising these questions, Harry Dunn is. Check this out.
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KELLY: I'd just like to know why, that's all. How about that, Harry Dunn? I'd like to know why too. But here's the thing. I know you came to some conclusions there that it wasn't — maybe they didn't know ahead of time. I think a lot of people knew ahead of time that something big was going down on January 6, and some of them wanted it to go down.
We need another real investigation about January 6, looking at the cops, not just underlying issues or questions about the election — about the FBI, about the cops leaving doors open. Ashli Babbitt, Michael Byrd, the whole damn thing. OK?
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Less than a week into Trump’s 2nd term, he’s already redefined accountability for himself and his supporters. Retired DC police officer Michael Fanone joins The Weekend to weigh in on pardons for Jan. 6 rioters and what they mean for the rule of law.
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Former D.C police officer Michael Fanone joins Joy Reid to discuss his decision to file protective orders against those who assaulted him on January 6th 2021.
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The California man who used a stun gun on Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot has been sentenced to 12.5 years in prison, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Daniel Joseph "DJ" Rodriguez, 40, of Fontana, Calif., pled guilty to several charges in February. He was officially sentenced to "conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding, obstruction of justice, and assaulting a law enforcement officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon,"the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia said in a statement.
In addition to his prison sentence, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered another 36 months of supervised release and for Rodriguez to pay $2,000 in restitution to the Architect of the Capitol and $96,927 to the Metropolitan Police Department for damages to Fanone.
In the fall of 2020, Rodriguez was part of a group that started a Telegram chat called PATRIOTS45MAGA Gang, which brought together supporters of then-President Trump. It "became a forum for Rodriguez's plans for violence against the seat of the federal government," according to court documents.
Rodriguez and other members of the group traveled from California to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, for a "Stop the Steal" rally on the National Mall. He entered the Capitol and, according to court documents, "video footage taken from the incident depicts Rodriguez at the first set of double doors of the Capitol building facing the police line and deploying a fire extinguisher at the line of officers present."
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He was then seen using a long wooden pole and shoving it toward officers in the line, the documents said.
"After Rodriguez returned to the lower west terrace tunnel, court documents state that video footage taken from the scene of the incident depicts one rioter, Albuquerque Head, wrapping his arm around the neck of an MPD officer and dragging the officer out on to the steps of the lower west terrace," the statement said. "Rodriguez is then seen making his way toward the officer and, with the electroshock weapon in hand, plunging it into the officer's neck. As the officer attempted to escape, court records state that Rodriguez struck again, placing the electroshock weapon on the back of the officer's neck."
That officer was later identified as Fanone. He served on the Metropolitan Police Department Officer for nearly two decades before resigning nearly a year after the attack at the U.S. Capitol.
Fanone has spoken publicly about what he experienced that day. He was tased repeatedly while the attacking mob threatened to shoot him with his own gun, before being pulled to safety. Doctors later told him he suffered a mild heart attack from this experience, he's said.
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After attacking Fanone, Rodriguez entered the Capitol, vandalizing offices, ransacking rooms, breaking windows and stealing items, prosecutors said. During all of this, he continued to update other members of his Telegram group of his assault on Fanone and the other law enforcement officers on scene that day.
In the 29 months since the Jan. 6 riot, more than 1,000 people have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol; nearly 350 people have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement. The investigation is ongoing.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, convicted of seditious conspiracy and other felonies, was sentenced to 18 years — the longest sentence so far related to Jan. 6 crimes.
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October 3, 2024, edition of Real America’s Voice’s War Room
JULIE KELLY (GUEST): Look, Jack Smith knows this case is going nowhere, and let's remember what this new indictment, superseding indictment is. It is a four-count indictment. Three conspiracy charges, conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to deny rights, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to obstruct.
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So this is what is mostly in his new dossier, his motion that was unsealed yesterday, trying to explain how what Donald Trump did in office was purely private and political, that what his communications with Mike Pence were political and private, not in his official capacity as president.
What this represents, and because they only see this through the lens of Donald Trump, if they get their way, which they won't, is criminalizing any political activity by a president in the White House.
DAVE BRAT (GUEST HOST): Right. Right.
KELLY: That's what this would be. So this is why it's a folly, Dave. That's why it's not going anywhere. Jack Smith knows it. Tanya Chutkan knows it. Everyone knows it. This is a purely political, partisan move. The press is eating it up. And at the end of the day, this will all go away in the higher courts, whether appellate, certainly the Supreme Court. But it doesn't matter because they're gonna get their headlines. The fake ones we saw last night and today that Donald Trump called for a riot is not what that document says.
As Media Matters has documented:
Kelly has a long history of promoting unhinged conspiracy theories and election denial, including baseless accusations smearing police officers who were attacked on January 6, 2021.
- Kelly accused former D.C. police officer Michael Fanone, who suffered a heart attack after a rioter attacked him with a stun gun, of instead being a “crisis actor.”
- Kelly has falsely claimed that a majority of Americans “don't think that Joe Biden legitimately won the election in 2020,” and that investigations of January 6 are a means to “silence political dissent.”
- Kelly claimed that the left would “round up every single American who voted for Donald Trump” if they could.
- Kelly has accused the FBI of secretly being behind the explosives left near the Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters the night before January 6, 2021, which she called “this pipe bomb hoax,” further adding, “It doesn't defy reality to think that this agency was deeply involved in creating all of these narratives about January 6.”
- During her speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February 2022, Kelly accused President Joe Biden of presiding over a dictatorial regime and acting worse than Russian President Vladimir Putin in the prosecution of January 6 defendants.
- In an interview with former Trump adviser and January 6 provocateur Steve Bannon, Kelly claimed: “January 6, 2021, was probably the biggest instance of police brutality that this country has seen since the Civil Rights Movement.”
- During the same interview, Kelly suggested that police officers who took their own lives after serving at the Capitol on January 6 did so out of shame at the violence committed against Trump supporters:
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WASHINGTON — An Iowa man pleaded guilty Thursday to taking part in the savage attack on D.C. Police Officer Michael Fanone during the 2021 Capitol riot.
Kyle James Young, 37, of Redfield, Iowa, appeared virtually before U.S. District Judge Amy B. Jackson to enter his plea of guilty to one felony count of assaulting a police officer. At his sentencing hearing Aug. 25, he’ll face a recommendation of more than 5 years in prison.
Young was one of three men indicted in April 2021 for the attack that left Fanone unconscious and resulted in him suffering a heart attack as he was being transported to the hospital. One of Young’s co-defendants, Albuquerque Cosper Head, of Kingsport, Tennessee, was scheduled to plead guilty Friday. The other, Thomas Sibick, was awaiting trial on home incarceration at his parents’ house in Buffalo, New York.
Fanone, who has since left the D.C. Police Department, said in testimony before Congress and in interviews since Jan. 6 he was worried the mob was going to kill him when they grabbed him and dragged him alone into the crowd. Rioters repeatedly beat him with their fists and flagpoles. Another defendant charged in a separate case, Danny Rodriguez, confessed to FBI agents that he tased Fanone in the neck multiple times.
“Guys were like grabbing gear off my vest,” Fanone said in an interview with WUSA9. “I remember guys chanting, like, ‘Kill him with his own gun!”
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Fanone said he considered using his gun to defend himself, but decided the crowd would quickly overpower him and use it against him.
While other rioters were assaulting him, Sibick is accused of reaching in and stealing Fanone’s badge and police radio. He has admitted he returned home to New York with the badge and buried it in his backyard.
On Thursday, Young told Jackson he was accompanied by one of his minor children when he joined other rioters in the chaotic Lower West Terrace tunnel. Young said when another member of the mob dragged Fanone into the crowd, he grabbed his wrist and pulled the officer’s arm away from his body – one of multiple rioters who restrained Fanone on the ground while he was being assaulted.
The restraint could earn Young extra prison time at sentencing. Jackson said she will have to determine if an enhancement is appropriate. If she decides it is, his expected recommended sentencing range will increase from 63-78 months to 77-96 months.
Young’s co-defendant, Albuquerque Cosper Head, was scheduled to appear for his own plea hearing at 2 p.m. Friday before Jackson.
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Allegations include Assaulting a U.S. Capitol Police Officer, a Metropolitan Police Department Officer and Stealing a Badge, Radio, and Attempting to Steal a Service Weapon from a Metropolitan Police Department Officer
Note:A full copy of the indictment can be viewed
WASHINGTON — Today, the District of Columbia unsealed an indictment against three men for assaulting law enforcement officers, among other charges, during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 that disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress in the process of affirming the presidential election.
Albuquerque Cosper Head, 41, of Kingsport, Tennessee; Kyle James Young, 37, of Redfield, Iowa; and Thomas Sibick, 35, of Buffalo, New York, were indicted on charges related to their assault of Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) Officer Michael Fanone, as well as other crimes, committed during the breach.
All are charged with obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting; civil disorder; assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct on restricted building or grounds; impeding ingress and egress in a restricted building or grounds; engaging in physical violence on restricted building or grounds; impeding passage through the Capitol grounds or buildings; and acts of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings. Sibick is charged with an additional count of robbery; Head is charged with an additional count of civil disorder; and Young is charged with additional counts of civil disorder, assault on an officer, and robbery.
The FBI’s Omaha Field Office arrested Young and Knoxville Field Office arrested Head on April 14, 2021. Sibick was arrested in March pursuant to a complaint and is now charged via indictment.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Department of Justice National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section are prosecuting the case, with valuable assistance from the U.S. Attorney’s Offices for the Southern District of Iowa, Eastern District of Tennessee and Western District of New York.
The case is being investigated by the FBI Field Offices in Washington, Omaha and Knoxville, along with the U.S. Capitol Police and MPD, who listed Young as #116, Sibick #115, and Head #111 on their seeking information photos.
*Anyone with tips can call 1-800-CALL-FBI (800-225-5324) or visit tips.fbi.gov
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Tennessee man pleads guilty to assaulting Officer Michael Fanone
WASHINGTON D.C. – A Tennessee man accused of assaulting Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone in one of the most violent documented attacks on law enforcement during the U.S. Capitol insurrection has pleaded guilty.
Albuquerque Cosper Head, 42, of Kingsport, pleaded guilty Friday in Washington, D.C., to assaulting, resisting or impeding officers and faces a statutory maximum of eight years in prison as well as potential financial penalties. Head, who was arrested on April 14, 2021, is to be sentenced on Sept. 23.
Head is the rioter responsible for dragging Fanone into the crowd while Fanone was trying to defend the entrance of the lower west terrace of the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents.
According to court documents, Head could be heard on Fanone’s body worn camera saying, “I’m gonna try to help you out here. You hear me?” and then, “Hey! I got one!”
In an interview with FBI agents on Feb. 24, 2021, Fanone described the individual who grabbed him and wrapped him up into a bear hug while dragging him out of the tunnel, court records stated. Fanone indicated Head kept telling him he would take care of him once they got outside, but at no point did Fanone think that was true.
Fanone was threatened, kicked, punched, pushed, grabbed and hit with objects by the crowd. Following the assault, Fanone lost consciousness and was hospitalized for his injuries, including a likely concussion and injuries from the taser, court records state. He was admitted to the hospital for monitoring of his cardiac activity.
Two of Head's co-defendants indicted at the same time also were involved in the attack on Fanone. Thomas Sibick, 36, of Buffalo, New York, robbed him of his badge and police radio, and Kyle Young, 38, of Redfield, Iowa, tried to forcibly remove his police gun from its holster while yelling words to the effect that he was going to take the gun and kill him, court records state.
Young has pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting or impeding officers in return for a maximum sentence of eight years and is set for sentencing on Aug. 25. Sibick has pleaded not guilty.
A third man, Daniel Rodriguez, tased Fanone twice, court records state. He has been charged with impeding, obstructing or interfering with a law enforcement officer during civil disorder, assaulting a federal officer with a dangerous weapon, theft and destruction of government property and trespassing.
“It’s been very difficult seeing elected officials and other individuals kind of whitewash the events of that day or downplay what happened,” Fanone told CNN in an interview just a few months after the assault. “I experienced a group of individuals that were trying to kill me to accomplish their goal.”
In the 15 months since Jan. 6, 2021, nearly 800 individuals have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including more than 250 individuals charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement. At least 22 of those arrested have clear ties to Tennessee, most of whom are from Middle Tennessee.
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Posted: Jan 22, 2025 / 08:12 PM EST
Updated: Jan 22, 2025 / 08:12 PM EST
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — The question of whether all January 6 Capitol rioters should have been included in President Donald Trump’s pardons — even those who physically assaulted police officers — has a local flavor.
Kingsport man Albuquerque Head was sentenced to 90 months in federal prison for pulling Metro D.C. police officer Michael Fanone from a police line and into a crowd, where he was beaten. Head, 45, is now free after serving less than half that time.
“Under the Article 2 of our U.S. Constitution the president has the power to pardon,” law enforcement professor Eric Stanton told News Channel 11 Wednesday. “That was a campaign promise that he made and he’s delivering on his campaign promises.”
That delivery has made waves, as have outgoing President Joe Biden’s pardons of family members and public figures he claimed he was afraid Trump may pursue using the justice system. Stanton said he sees an apparent increase in the use of non-traditional pardons as “a slippery slope.”
But he said many people see a difference even between people who may have broken barricades that day and those who assaulted officers.
“Did Donald Trump, President Trump in his first four years support law enforcement? The answer is yes. However, now with this, with the pardoning thing, it is a black eye, if you will, to law enforcement.”
Stanton said what happened that day was “chaos” brought on by protestors’ belief the election had been stolen. He said that’s enough for many Americans to support Trump’s action in what has become an increasingly polarized electorate.
“Whether it was provoked or not, the history books will make that determination. But at the end of the day, if you or I go to the Capitol right now and we break into the Capitol, we’re violating federal law and we will be held accountable, and justifiably so.
“At the end of the day, the folks that vote for Donald Trump or vote for Joe Biden have to make that determination on whether or not they think that these pardons are fair or not.”
Head is among the January 6 rioters who pleaded or were found guilty of physical crimes against officers. In a stipulation as part of a plea agreement, he acknowledged as “facts beyond a reasonable doubt” the following about that afternoon:
That he knew Fanone, identified as “Officer M.F.,” was “engaged in the performance of official duties as an officer” when he “wrapped his arm around (Fanone) and pulled the officer into the crowd.”
That when Fanone came to the front of a police line about 3:15 p.m. that day, Head “used a riot shield to push officers at the front of the police line and, at one point, struck Officer M.F.’s hand with his own hand.”
That as officers were pushing rioters back several minutes later, Head got ahold of Fanone’s neck “and pulled him into the crowd of rioters outside the tunnel, yelling ‘I got one!’
That after Head was able to hold a struggling Fanone for 25 seconds and pull him further, Fanone broke free but was surrounded by other rioters and kicked, punched, stunned with a device and had rioters try to remove his service weapon from its holster as they held his arms.
“Some of these individuals did very serious things, very serious assault on police officers, assault on others, broke into a secure facility, etcetera, to where they were prosecuted, they were found guilty by a jury of their peers or in a bench trial, and they received punishments for it,” Stanton said. “As a result, now it’s like basically it’s wiped clean and we start all over again.”
“There were officers that were obviously hurt. Some of them will have permanent scars for the rest of their lives they have to deal with, both physically and mentally. And so when you say you support law enforcement, do you support them all the time or not?
“That’s going to be up to the general public to decide whether they think that this is a situation that still warrants the fact that the president supports law enforcement.”
He isn’t surprised that even some Republicans and some conservative law officers aren’t backing the president’s decision to pardon people who committed violence against officers. He’s also confident that a lot of police officers fully support Trump’s decision.
“There’s police officers out there that don’t have a problem with it. It goes back to political affiliations. Police officers are human, just like you and I are, and even though they’re out there impartially enforcing the law at night, when they go home, they still lean one way or the other on the political spectrum.
“So those that may be right-wing conservatives might say this is totally justified and others might say it’s not.”
Northeast Tennessee Republican Congresswoman Diana Harshbarger supports the pardons and said “there is nothing wrong with what Presiden Trump did.”
“These people were incarcerated and they shouldn’t have been,” Harshbarger said.
The congresswoman also criticized the way the Jan. 6 cases have been handled.
“Let me just tell you what some of these Jan. 6 people have told us,” Harshbarger said. “The FBI has a way of entrapping you and you have no other choice besides pleading to get whatever sentence they decide they want to give you. So you’ve got to look a little deeper into these allegations and into the things that’s being reported.”
For Stanton himself, the actions of protestors who committed violence against law enforcement officers that day are a bridge too far.
“Personally, I just believe anybody that’s harmed any first responder whether it’s law enforcement, police, fire, EMS, one of our dispatchers etcetera, should not be pardoned.”
Federal Bureau of Prisons information shows Head, who pleaded specifically to assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers — the government dismissed other counts — was out of federal custody as of Tuesday. He had been sentenced to nearly the maximum eight-year sentence for the count to which he pled guilty.
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Jan. 6 rioter who dragged police officer into mob sentenced to over 7 years in prison | Fox News
A Tennessee man who dragged a police officer into a mob of rioters, initiating one of the most harrowing acts of violence during the U.S. Capitol attack, was sentenced on Thursday to more than seven years in prison.
Albuquerque Cosper Head declined to address the court before U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced him to seven years and six months of imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release. The judge said Head was responsible for "some of the darkest acts committed on one of our nation’s darkest days."
Head's prison sentence is six months shy of the statutory maximum in his case. It's also the second-longest so far among hundreds of cases arising from the Capitol siege on Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of Trump supporters stormed the building as Congress prepared to certify President Joe Biden's electoral victory.
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"The dark shadow of tyranny unfortunately has not gone away," Jackson said. "There are people who are still disseminating the lie that the election was stolen. They’re doing it today. And the people who are stoking that anger for their own selfish purposes, they need to think about the havoc they’ve wreaked, the lives they’ve ruined."
Head engaged in some of the most barbaric violence during the Capitol riot, repeatedly assaulting police officers who were guarding a tunnel on the Lower West Terrace, according to prosecutors.
Metropolitan Police Department Officer Michael Fanone was on the front lines of the battle for control of the tunnel entrance when Head grabbed him. Head yelled "I’ve got one!" as he wrapped his arms around Fanone's neck and dragged him into the crowd outside the tunnel, prosecutors said.
"He was your prey. He was your trophy," Jackson told Head, 43.
Head restrained Fanone while other rioters beat and shocked the officer with a stun gun at the base of his skull. Fanone lost consciousness during the assault, which his body camera captured on video.
"Although Head was separated from Officer Fanone in the moments that followed, Head would have been able to hear the sound of the taser being activated again, Officer Fanone’s screams of agony, and the yells from another rioter to ‘Kill him with his own gun!’" prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
Former Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone was attacked by a rioter who now faces over seven years in prison. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)
During Thursday's sentencing hearing, Fanone said the attack gave him a heart attack and a traumatic brain injury and ultimately cost him his career. He has written a book about his Jan. 6 experience and testified at a hearing held by the House committee investigating the insurrection.
"I would trade all of this attention to return to policing, but I can't do that," he said. "And the catalyst for my loss of career and the suffering that I've endured in the past 18 months is Albuquerque Head."
Other rioters have been charged with assaulting Fanone, including Kyle Young, an Iowa man who grabbed Fanone by the wrist while others yelled, "Kill him!" and "Get his gun!" Jackson sentenced Young last month to seven years and two months in prison.
Daniel "D.J." Rodriguez, a California man charged with using the stun gun on Fanone, is scheduled to go on trial in February 2023. Thomas Sibick, a riot defendant from New York, is charged with stealing the officer's badge and police radio during the melee.
Head, a construction worker from Kingsport, Tennessee, was arrested in April 2021 and pleaded guilty to an assault charge in May 2022. He has a criminal record that includes approximately 45 previous arrests.
Prosecutors recommended a prison sentence of eight years, the statutory maximum sentence that he faced.
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Fanone also asked the judge to impose the maximum sentence. He recalled how Head initially told him, "I’m going to try to help you out here. You hear me?" before shouting that he "got one."
"I would ask you to show Mr. Head the same mercy that he showed me on January 6th, which, in case there's any question in this courtroom, is none," Fanone said.
Head's attorney, Nicholas Wallace, requested a five-year prison sentence.
"There is no evidence that Mr. Head made advance plans with much effort or that he came to D.C. prepared for a battle. His series of bad decisions, as outlined above, while serious, is far from the worst conduct that day," Wallace wrote.
Head told FBI agents that he drove to Washington to attend the "Stop the Steal" rally, where then-President Donald Trump addressed a crowd of supporters. Joining the mob at the tunnel, Head wielded a riot shield as a weapon and used a second shield to shove against Fanone and other officers, according to prosecutors.
"When Officer Fanone used his hand to brace himself on the doorframe in the midst of the struggle, Head struck the officer’s hand with his own hand, causing the officer to lose his grip on the doorframe," prosecutors wrote.
After he pulled Fanone into the crowd, Head became separated from the officer. When others in the crowd surrounded Fanone to protect him from his assailants, Head repeatedly reached toward the officer and tried to grab him again, prosecutors said. Fanone's body camera showed him collapsing after his protectors escorted him back to the police line.
Fanone's partner tried to revive him, saying, "Come on, Mike. Come on, buddy. We’re going duck hunting soon."
Regaining consciousness after nearly two and a half minutes, Fanone asked, "Did we take that door back?"
"The courage and sacrifice that Officer Fanone showed on that day is incredible, and we owe him a debt of gratitude for what he has lost," Assistant U.S. Attorney Cara Gardner told the judge.
Also Thursday, a man from Covington, Kentucky, pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon for entering the Capitol on Jan. 6 and discharging fire extinguishers on police, the Justice Department said.
Nicholas James Brockhoff, 21, also obtained a helmet belonging to an officer and wore it when he entered a Senate conference room from a broken window, prosecutors said. Brockhoff helped kick a door leading to another conference room, tore open a box and went through papers.
Brockhoff was arrested in May 2021 in Counce, Tennessee. He faces up to 20 years in prison at sentencing scheduled for March 24.
Approximately 900 people have been charged with federal crimes for their conduct on Jan. 6. More than 430 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanor offenses. Over 300 have been sentenced, with roughly half getting terms of imprisonment ranging from seven days to 10 years, according to an AP review of court records.
More than 100 police officers were injured at the Capitol. Around 20 defendants have been sentenced for assaulting police on Jan. 6, the Justice Department says.
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