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“Fed law enforcement officials privately debating whether they should decline to charge some who stormed Capitol this month —politically loaded proposition but one alert to practical concern that hundreds of such cases could swamp the local courthouse” https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/doj-capitol-rioters-charges-debate/2021/01/23/3b0cf112-5d97-11eb-8bcf-3877871c819d_story.html
2/ "The internal discussions are in their early stages, and no decisions have been reached about whether to forgo charging some of those who illegally entered the Capitol on Jan. 6..."
3/ There were about 800 total.
"Due to the wide variety of behavior, some federal officials have argued internally that those people who are known only to have committed unlawful entry —& were not engaged in violent, threatening or destructive behavior — should not be charged"
"Due to the wide variety of behavior, some federal officials have argued internally that those people who are known only to have committed unlawful entry —& were not engaged in violent, threatening or destructive behavior — should not be charged"
4/ "Prosecutors have signaled they are looking to bring charges of seditious conspiracy against anyone who planned and carried out violence aimed at the government — a charge that carries a maximum possible prison sentence of 20 years."
5/ "But even as DOJ looks to bring those types of cases, they privately acknowledge more determined /dangerous indivs may have operated w/in broader sea of ppl who rushed [in] but didn’t do much else.. prosecutors will have to decide if those lesser offenders should be charged"
