An Illinois man is the first to be charged in connection with the January 6 violence in the US Capitol by supporters of the then president. Donald Trump.
Shane Jason Woods, 43, of Auburn, was charged with assaulting journalists during a raid. He was also charged with crimes, including assaulting members of law enforcement and physical violence inside a closed building, the justice ministry said.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the arrest of the 43-year-old in a statement yesterday, in which he pointed out that So far, 500 people have been arrested in connection with the violence, including 100 facing charges of assaulting police officers.
Five people lost their lives from the violent episodes of January 6th, including a Capitol police officer.
“The Ministry of Justice will continue to follow the data and issue accusations according to the data so that all the perpetrators of January 6 are accountable,” he noted, as reported by Reuters and relayed by the Athens News Agency.
According to court documents, Woods was filmed wandering around a restricted area of ​​the Capitol, wearing a baseball cap and a Trump mask, and attacking a female Capitol police officer, causing her to stumble and fall.
Woods was also said to have been filmed by cameras targeting journalists videotaping the Capitol attack as he stood among a crowd of people shouting “incendiary rhetoric” against the media.
According to the FBI, in a video, Woods appears to be “walking very close around a cameraman” and then facing the cameraman on the ground.
“The manner of the attack on the cameraman was very similar to the attack” on the Capitol police officer, according to court documents.
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