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The Department of Justice is considering charging up to 200 more people for their alleged involvement in the Jan. 6, 2021, riots in the US Capitol, a report says.
New figures released on Monday on the 4th anniversary of the incident include 60 people suspected of assaulting or obstructing 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 he wanted to forgive the rioters of January 6 on the first day of his administration and said that the people on the January 6th committee in Congress belonged in prison.
“I’m going to look at everything. We’re going to look at individual cases,” Trump said at the time. “But I will act very quickly.”
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A scene from the January 6 riots at the US Capitol in 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file)
About 1,600 people have so far faced federal charges related to the U.S. Capitol breach, 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 destroying government property, but the new figures released Monday are the first time Department of Justice has estimated how many cases are still pending prosecution, Politico added.
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People are seen scaling the west wall of the US Capitol in Washington, on January 6, 2021. (AP/Jose Luis Magana)
The news also reported that around 1,100 defendants from January 6 have been convicted and reached sentencing, but 300 of the cases already charged have not yet entered the trial phase.
President Biden was asked by reporters on Sunday if he still thought Trump was a threat to democracy.
Protesters and U.S. Capitol police fight over a barricade as the grounds of the Capitol building are cordoned off in Washington on January 6, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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“We need 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 that we’re beyond that.”
Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
