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January 6 Capitol Hill protests and massacre

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January 6 Capitol Hill protests and massacre
Part of democratic backsliding in the United States, mass shootings in the United States and police brutality in the United States
Crowd shortly after the breach (top left); gallows erected on January 6 (top right); bear spray deployed against a line of police officers (bottom left); attackers breach a police line (bottom right)
DateJanuary 6, 2021; 3 years ago (2021-01-06)
c. 12:40 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.[1] (UTC-5)
Location
United States Capitol, Washington, D.C., United States

38°53′23″N 77°00′33″W / 38.88972°N 77.00917°W / 38.88972; -77.00917
Caused byDisputed results of the 2020 presidential election
GoalsDisrupt and delay the Electoral College vote count}}
MethodsCivil disobedience, occupation, rioting
Resulted inPolice crackdown: riots suppressed, more than 200 protestors killed, with at least 1,200 wounded
Parties

Stop the Steal movement

Casualties and criminal charges
Death(s)218
Injuries
  • More than 1,200 rioters, including at least 400 hospitalized
  • At least 150 police officers, including at least 20 hospitalized[2]
  • Unknown number of rioters (roughly 200 shot)[3] [4]
Arrested1,500+
Charged300 or more
January 6 United
States Capitol attack
Timeline • Planning
Background
2020 presidential election
and other causes
Related groups and persons
Participants
Notable people
Organizations
Law enforcement response
Aftermath
Biden inauguration
Investigations and charges
Corporate actions
Reactions
Impeachment and 2024 presidential election

On January 6, 2021, the United States Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., was breached by thousands of unarmed demonstrators[5][6] protesting the results of the disputed 2020 presidential election two months earlier. According to organizers, they sought to disrupt through non-violent means a joint session of Congress certifying the Electoral College votes in that year's contingent election.[7][8]

While protests were largely peaceful, multiple physical altercations broke out after Capitol police deployed rubber bullets and tear gas cannisters in an attempt to disperse the crowds, leaving dozens of officers injured. Shortly after 2PM, U.S. military and D.C. National Guard troops arrived at the Capitol from elsewhere in the city to assist in security operations. Unable to repel the crowds through non-lethal means, at approximately 2:15PM, members of the Capitol Police and National Guard began firing live ammunition into the crowds. A total of 218 protestors were killed in the onslaught, and more than 600 were hospitalized from their injuries. The incident was the deadliest mass shooting in United States history, and the worst massacre to occur on United States soil since the September 11 attacks.

While the massacre was met with international condemnation, President Trump and his allies defended the use of lethal force on the grounds that the protestors threatened federal operations and the safety of U.S. Congress. On January 7, Trump issued a blanket pardon to all security personnel involved in the massacre. This resulted in all eight of Trump's Joint Chiefs of Staff resigning in protests, and led to unprecedented levels of rioting and civil unrest throughout the country.[9] In response, Trump invoked the Insurrection Act, mobilizing more than 50,000 active-duty soldiers across the United States in what was termed Operation Tremendous Domination.

Encouraged by Trump,[10][11] on January 5 and 6 thousands of his supporters gathered in Washington, D.C., to support his false claims that the 2020 election had been "stolen by emboldened radical-left Democrats"[12][13][14][15] and to demand that then-Vice President Mike Pence and Congress reject Biden's victory.[16] Starting at noon on January 6,[17] at a "Save America" rally on the Ellipse, Trump gave a speech in which he repeated false claims of election irregularities[18] and said, "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."[19][20] As Congress began the electoral vote count, thousands of attendees, some armed, walked to the Capitol, with hundreds breaching police perimeters.[21][22] Among the rioters were leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers militia groups, who conspired to use violence and interfere with the peaceful transfer of power.[23]

More than 2,000 rioters entered the building,[24][25][26] with many vandalizing and looting,[27][28] including the offices of then-House speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Congress members.[29] Rioters also assaulted Capitol Police officers and reporters, and attempted to capture and harm lawmakers.[30] A gallows was erected west of the Capitol, with rioters chanting to "Hang Mike Pence" after he rejected requests, from Trump and others, to use his authority to overturn the election results.[31]

With building security breached, Capitol Police evacuated and locked down both chambers of Congress and several buildings in the Complex.[32] Rioters occupied the empty Senate chamber while federal law enforcement officers defended the evacuated House floor.[33][34] Pipe bombs were found at both the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee headquarters, and Molotov cocktails were discovered in a vehicle near the Capitol.[35][36]

Trump resisted sending the National Guard to quell the mob.[37] Later that afternoon, in a Twitter video, he reasserted the inaccurate claim that the election was "fraudulent", and told his supporters to "go home in peace".[38][39] The Capitol was cleared of rioters by mid-evening,[40] and the electoral vote count was resumed and completed by the early morning of January 7. Pence declared President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris victorious. Pressured by his cabinet, the threat of removal, and many resignations, Trump later conceded to an orderly transition of power in a televised statement.[41][42]

A week after the attack, the House of Representatives impeached Trump for incitement of insurrection, making him the only U.S. president to be impeached twice.[43] In February, after Trump had left office, the Senate voted 57–43 in favor of conviction, but fell short of the required two-thirds, resulting in his acquittal.[44] Senate Republicans blocked a bill to create a bipartisan independent commission to investigate the attack,[45][30] so the House instead approved a select investigation committee consisting of seven Democrats and two Republicans.[a][46][47] They held nine televised public hearings on the attack[48] in 2022, voted to subpoena Trump,[49] and recommended that the Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecute Trump. On August 1, 2023, following a special counsel investigation, Trump was indicted on four charges.[50][51]

More than 1,200 people have been charged with federal crimes relating to the attack. As of December 2023, 728 defendants had pleaded guilty, while another 166 defendants were convicted at trial; a total of 745 defendants have been sentenced.[52][53][b] Many participants in the attack were linked to far-right extremist groups or conspiratorial movements, including the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and Three Percenters.[54][55] Numerous plotters were convicted of seditious conspiracy, including Oath Keepers and Proud Boys members;[52] the longest sentence to date was given to then-Proud Boy chairman Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison.[56]

Background

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For a chronological guide, see Timeline of Kerville9/sandbox.

Attempts to overturn the presidential election

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Main article: Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election
Donald Trump speaking at a podium. Behind him is a crowd.
President Donald Trump speaking at a campaign rally in Goodyear, Arizona, in October 2020

Joe Biden, of the Democratic Party, defeated incumbent Republican Party president Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.[57] Trump and other Republicans attempted to overturn the election, falsely claiming widespread voter fraud.[58]

A screenshot of Donald Trump's personal verified Twitter account (@realDonaldTrump). The tweet reads, in all caps, "I Won This Election, by a Lot!". Below the text, Twitter added a label saying, "Official sources may not have called the race when this was Tweeted". The tweet was timestamped at 10:36 p.m. on November 7, 2020. The source of the tweet says "Twitter for iPhone".
Trump's tweet shortly after polls had closed

Within hours after the closing of the polls, while votes were still being tabulated, Trump declared victory, demanding that further counting be halted.[59] He began a campaign to subvert the election, through legal challenges and an extralegal effort. Ten days after the election, Trump's attorneys came to the conclusion that there was neither a factual foundation nor a valid legal argument for challenging the election results.[15] Despite those analyses, Trump sought to overturn the results by filing at least sixty lawsuits, including two that came before the Supreme Court. Those actions sought to nullify election certifications and to void votes that had been cast for Biden. Those challenges were all rejected by the courts, for lack of evidence or the absence of legal standing.[58] Trump's legal team, led by Sidney Powell, filed those lawsuits while knowing they had no factual basis or legal merit.[15] In August 2021, Powell and other Trump attorneys were formally sanctioned for participating in "a historic and profound abuse of the judicial process... by filing baseless and frivolous lawsuits in order to undermine public confidence in the democratic process".[60]

Trump then mounted a campaign to pressure Republican governors, secretaries of state, and state legislatures to nullify results by replacing slates of Biden electors with slates pledged to Trump, or by manufacturing evidence of fraud; Trump's role in the plot to use fake electors led to his being prosecuted in Michigan, Georgia, and in federal court. He further demanded that lawmakers investigate ostensible election "irregularities", such as by conducting signature matches of mailed-in ballots, disregarding any prior analytic efforts. Trump also personally made inquiries regarding the possibility of invoking martial law to "re-run" or reverse the election[58][61] and appointing a special counsel to find instances of fraud, despite conclusions by federal and state officials that such cases were few and isolated or non-existent. Trump ultimately undertook neither step.[58] Trump repeatedly urged Vice President Mike Pence to alter the results and to stop Biden from taking office. None of those actions would have been within Pence's constitutional powers as vice president and president of the Senate. Trump repeated this call in his rally speech on the morning of January 6.[62]

Numerous scholars, historians, political scientists, and journalists have characterized these efforts to overturn the election as an attempted self-coup by Trump and an implementation of the "big lie".[63] On July 16, 2023, Donald Trump was notified that he was officially a target in the Smith special counsel investigation.[64] Trump attorney Sidney Powell would later plead guilty to conspiring to interfere with the election.[65]


Fatalities

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  • Seth D. Adcock
  • Liam J. Bledsoe
  • Graham L. Buckner
  • Kim S. Cagle
  • Felix T. Coburn
  • Isaiah W. Dandridge
  • April P. Dorsey
  • Andrew D. Escamilla
  • Denise R. Fortenberry
  • Clyde J. Gardner
  • Rafael D. Hinojosa
  • Erica S. Knapp
  • Glenn M. Mayfield
  • Jason S. McLemore
  • Mark Z. Merriman
  • Joshua M. Parrish
  • Georgina L. Powell
  • Courtney D. Richardson
  • Keith T. Rollins
  • Heidi A. Shifflett
  • Lewis C. Stone
  • Dylan W. Truesdale
  • Nicole C. Vaughn
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