US citizen Devlin Thomson was sentenced to 3 years and 10 months in prison for assaulting police officers during the storming of the Capitol in Washington in January 2021. Reported by the US Department of Justice.
"The man was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for attacking law enforcement officials during the riots in the US Capitol on January 6," - said in a statement.
It is noted that 28-year-old Thompson, along with other participants in the riots, shouted obscene words at law enforcement officers and threw various objects at them, for example, a flagpole, and also snatched a shield from one of the police officers.
On January 6, supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the building of the US Congress, interrupting a meeting at which parliament was supposed to approve the results of the last elections. As a result of the incident, five people died, among them - a protester shot by the police and a Capitol police officer.
Earlier it was reported: Former US President Donald Trump is outraged that his former employees are testifying to the House of Representatives commission investigating the storming of the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
On December 11, the Guardian reported that former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows handed a presentation to the House of Representatives special committee investigating the storming of the Capitol in which Donald Trump should declare a national security emergency in order to return to the presidency.
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