The Justice Department is considering charging up to 200 more people for their alleged involvement in the January 6, 2021, riots at the US Capitol, report says.
New figures released on Monday on the fourth anniversary of the incident include 60 people suspected of assaulting or impeding police officers. according to Politico.
President-elect Trump will be sworn in as the country’s next president in just two weeks. In December, Trump told NBC that he wanted to pardon the January 6 rioters on the first day of his administration and said the people on the January 6 committee in Congress should be in jail.
“I’m going to examine everything. “We will look at individual cases,” Trump said at the time. “But I’m going to act very quickly.”
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A scene from the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol in 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
So far, about 1,600 people have faced federal charges related to the breach of the US Capitol, including more than 600 who allegedly assaulted or resisted police, Politico reported.
Nearly 200 of the defendants were charged with carrying a dangerous weapon on Capitol grounds and 153 were charged with destruction of government property, but the new figures released Monday are the first time the Justice Department estimates how many cases have not yet been prosecuted, Politico added.
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People are seen scaling the west wall of the US Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021. (AP/José Luis Magaña)
The media outlet also reported that around 1,100 defendants from January 6 have been found guilty and have reached sentencing, but 300 of the cases already charged have not entered the trial stage yet.
President Biden was asked by reporters on Sunday if he still thought Trump was a threat to democracy.
Protesters and US Capitol Police fight over a barricade as they storm the grounds of the Capitol building in Washington on January 6, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Pictures)
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“We have to reestablish basic democratic norms,” Biden told reporters in the East Room of the White House. “I think what he did was a real threat to democracy. “I’m hopeful we’re past that.”
Fox Information’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
