The Justice Department is notifying law enforcement officers who testified at the trials of some of the Jan. 6 attackers that the defendants they helped convict are being released from prison.
Former U.S. Capitol Police Staff Sergeant Aquilino Gonell posted images on social media of phone calls and emails he said he has received from the Justice Department since President Donald Trump granted mass pardons to defendants January 6th.
During the Jan. 6 insurrection, Gonell suffered repeated attacks at the hands of protesters, including a violent, hours-long clash in a tunnel leading to the Capitol. It is routine for the Justice Department to notify trial witnesses, or victims who spoke at the sentencing, when people they helped arrest are released from prison.
“Each email and call is a different violent protester who attacked me in the tunnel,” wrote Gonell in X this Wednesday (22). “If you are defending these people who brutally assaulted the police, perhaps you are NOT a defender of the police and the rule of law to begin with. If you were, you would want them held accountable.”
Another former U.S. Capitol Police officer, Harry Dunn, said in a social media post that Gonell told him the automated phone calls said, “The defendant you testified against is being released.”
This content was originally published in Witnesses of January 6th, police officers are notified of the release of defendants on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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