UPDATE: (ETH) – THIS STORY HAS BEEN UPDATED: “Justice Department prosecutors have formally walked back their assertion in a court filing that said Capitol rioters sought to “capture and assassinate elected officials.” A federal prosecutor in Arizona asked a magistrate judge in a hearing on Friday to strike the line in a recent court filing about defendant Jacob Anthony Chansley, a man who is alleged to have led some in the crowd in the first wave into the Capitol with a bullhorn while carrying a spear and wearing a fur headdress.”
PREVIOUS REPORT: Earlier today Federal prosecutors delivered a chilling report that revealed that the intention of the rioters at the Capitol was “to capture and assassinate elected officials.”
According to this memo, Jacob Anthony Chansley has been charged for what authorities are saying was rallying people inside the Capitol using a bullhorn. Chansley was notable for his headdress, face paint, and carrying of a six-foot spear “Strong evidence, including Chansley’s own words and actions at the Capitol, supports that the intent of the Capitol and rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States government,” government prosecutors wrote.
According to CNN, The government has begun describing in more alarming details what transpired on that day. Prosecutors in a Texas court are claiming that a retired Air Force reservist who carried plastic zip tie-like restraints on the Senate floor may have intended to restrain lawmakers.
Chansley is scheduled to be at a federal court in Arizona in the coming days “He loved Trump, every word. He listened to him. He felt like he was answering the call of our president,” Chansley’s attorney Al Watkins, appearing on CNN Thursday night, said. ” My client wasn’t violent.
He didn’t cross over any police lines. He didn’t assault anyone.” Watkins said Chansley also hopes for a presidential pardon. Chansley who also wrote a note saying “it’s only a matter of time, justice is coming.” later told the FBI he did not mean the note as a threat but insisted that the Vice President was a “child-trafficking traitor” and went on a long diatribe about Pence, Biden and other politicians as traitors.
