N. Carolina man charged in Jan. 6 riot for allegedly using bear spray on police -Breaking
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO. A large police presence is visible at the Senate entrance after Trump supporters broke into security at the U.S. Capitol. They rioted through the Senate, House, and interrupted the certification of Joe Biden in Washing.2/2
By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON (Reuters). A 19 year-old male was arrested for allegedly assaulting police officers and smashing through a U.S. Capitol glass with a baseball bat.
An indictment filed by the federal court in Washington, D.C., charged Aiden Bilyard, Cary, North Carolina, for seven criminal offenses related to riots, including felony civil disorder charges and assaulting a law enforcement officer using a dangerous weapon.
Bilyard was taken into custody Monday morning in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was released following a preliminary court appearance at the Eastern District of North Carolina federal court. Bilyard’s defense attorney was not listed in court records Tuesday afternoon.
On Jan. 6, a mob of Trump supporters stormed into the Capitol in an unsuccessful attempt to stop formal congressional certification that Trump’s election loss was to Democrat Joe Biden.
A statement of facts from prosecutors states that video taken by a Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police officer on Jan. 6, shows Bilyard wearing a grey Harvard sweatshirt, and spraying an orange-colored liquid spray outside the Capitol. Investigators suspect it was bear spray.
Investigators claim that video later in the day showed Bilyard and a group of protesters standing before a large Capitol window. Bilyard is handed a baseball bat from a demonstrator and he smashes the window. Then he appears to “turn to face the crowd” and shouts to incite rioters into entering the Capitol Building.
Investigators found that Bilyard had entered through the cracked window into a Senate chamber.
Nearly 700 have been charged for participating in the Jan. 6, riot. Around 210 others have been charged during the attack with assaulting and resisting police officers.
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