View: New Jan. 6 footage reveals mob making use of enormous Trump signal as battering ram

Misty Severi

September 28, 07:01 PM September 28, 07:01 PM

Shocking new system digital camera footage shows a mob of Trump supporters utilizing a battering ram in opposition to law enforcement officers throughout the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

The footage was unveiled in relationship to the sentencing of Howard Richardson, who was condemned to 46 months in prison final month for attacking regulation enforcement officers for the duration of the riot, according to NBC News.

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The online video exhibits Richardson and other rioters lifting the banner in excess of a team of law enforcement officers who ended up guarding the barrier to the Capitol. The steps forced the officers to abandon their defensive posture to protect against the banner, which contained metallic poles, from crushing them and making it possible for the rioters to storm through the barricade. Richardson also attacked a different officer with a Trump flag, the movie purportedly displays.

“Richardson wrongly insisted that he carried a ‘Back the Blue’ flag on January 6 and not a Trump flag,” prosecutors mentioned. “Apparently [unfazed] by the irony of utilizing a professional-law enforcement symbol to assault a police officer, Richardson created this assertion even however the video footage obviously reveals his flag is a blue and red ‘Trump’ flag.”

Richardson's son is a police officer who has served in law enforcement for 20 years, in accordance to the outlet.

Federal prosecutors argued in court docket that a sentence on the bigger finish of the rules was ideal because of other former encounters Richardson had with legislation enforcement. Choose Colleen Kollar-Kotelly agreed and sentenced Richardson to 3 1/2 yrs as a result.

"I lost my temper," Richardson mentioned of Jan. 6. "Under no circumstances should really have accomplished that. ... There is no justification for what I did."

Logan Barnhart, a bodybuilder who has appeared on the addresses of romance novels, pleaded responsible Wednesday to attacking and dragging an officer on the ways of the Capitol, in accordance to NBC. Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the suitable-wing Oath Keepers group, is also on demo this 7 days for seditious conspiracy charges related to the riot.