U.S. Democratic Party congressmen on Friday commemorated the second anniversary of the assault staged by supporters of former President Donald Trump and ultra-nationalist movements against the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
So far, about 900 people have been charged for participating in the riots, of which 470 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly on charges of assault and resistance to authority, civil disorder, obstruction of a legal proceeding, invasion of a building or restricted land, or some more serious ones such as sedition and conspiracy.
«Out of unspeakable horror emerged extraordinary heroism,» said former House Democratic Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who led a ceremony for the law enforcement officers who defended the congressmen trapped inside the building.
«These law enforcement heroes stood up to insurgents to protect the Capitol, the Congress and the Constitution of this country,» Pelosi said during the ceremony on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C.
Previously, the leader of the now Democratic minority in the lower house of Congress, Hakeem Jeffries, dedicated his speech to «recognize with deep gratitude the tremendous courage of the hundreds of agents» who defended the congressmen «during that fateful day in this citadel of democracy».
In recent hours, it has been learned that heirs of Brian Sicknick, a Capitol Police officer who died shortly after the assault, have filed a lawsuit against two participants in the incident and former President Donald Trump.
The lawsuit — filed Thursday, one day before the second anniversary of the assault — claims that Trump is responsible for stirring up his supporters with lies about the election process.
«While Agent Sicknick and hundreds of others, including other agents, elected officials and Capitol Hill workers, were in mortal danger, and while the insurgent mob desecrated the seat of American democracy, defendant Trump watched the events unfold on television from the safety of the White House,» the complaint reads.
Sicknick died a day after the assault from multiple strokes in a death officially ruled to be the result of natural causes the day after the insurrection, according to a report by Washington’s chief medical examiner.
The examiner, Francisco Diaz, assured The Washington Post, however, that «everything that happened» on January 6 «played a role in his condition».
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
