The pro-Donald Trumprioters who stormed the Capitol in last week’sviolent insurrectionwanted “to capture and assassinate elected officials,” federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
Jacob Chansley.Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP/Shutterstock
Chansley, of Phoenix, is charged with two felonies: committing an act of civil disorder that obstructed the conduct of a federally-protected function and obstructing an official proceeding.
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Chansley is scheduled for a court hearing on Friday, according to the filing.
The Washington Postreports that Albert S. Watkins, a St. Louis attorney, issued a statement saying Chansley had retained him as his attorney. In the statement, Watkins — who also representsMark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis couple photographed aiming guns at a group of protesters in front of their home — calls for Trump to pardon Chansley.
The statement says Chansley behaved in a “peaceful and compliant fashion” toward law enforcement and was cooperating with the investigation.
It adds that Chansley “took seriously the countless messages of President Trump. He believed in President Trump.”
Elsewhere, in a federal Texas courtroom on Thursday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Weimer argued thatLarry Rendell Brock, the retired Air Force officer photographed inside the Capitol with zip ties, wanted to “take hostages. He means to kidnap, restrain, perhaps try, perhaps execute members of the U.S. government,” theAssociated Press reports.
Brock, 53, is charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
It was not immediately clear if he has entered a plea and his public defender, Brook Antonio II, did not immediately return PEOPLE’s request for comment.
source: people.com
