At a press conference on the 3rd anniversary of the January 6 Capitol protest, Matthew Graves, US Attorney for the District of Columbia and Biden appointee, thanked the public for assisting the FBI in identifying J6rs and said more Capitol protesters would be arrested.
“It’s been three years since a violent mob attacked our Capitol,” said Graves.
“We have used our prosecutorial discretion to primarily focus on those who entered the building or engaged in violent or rough conduct on Capitol grounds.”
Graves emphasized that now, the DOJ is targeting thousands of individuals who were around the Capitol on January 6 but did not enter it.
He continued, “But, if a person knowingly entered a restricted area without authorization, they had already committed a federal crime. Make no mistake, thousands of people occupying the area that they were not authorized to be present in in the first place.”
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DC U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves is making clear that the DOJ is now going to target Americans who were around the Capitol on J6 but did not enter the building pic.twitter.com/bj4i3QfHe9
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On the day following Matthew Graves’ press conference, in which he threatened to arrest thousands of peaceful Trump supporters who did not enter the Capitol building, Joe Biden was near Valley Forge boasting about the 840 years of incarceration that pro-Trump protesters had been sentenced to.
Biden said of January 6, 2021: “Since that day more than 1,200 people have been charged for assaulting the Capitol. More than 900 have been convicted or pleaded guilty. Collectively to date, they have been sentenced to more than 840 years in prison.”
Videos show Capitol police moving barricades, opening sets of locked doors and waving in Trump supporters on January 6.
Most protesters peacefully strolled through the Capitol afterward; however, the Biden administration’s Justice Department ultimately arrested and charged them with various offenses despite their peaceful behavior.
Two days after Matthew Graves’ press conference, the FBI conducted a pre-dawn raid on January 6th – three years later – to arrest three individuals who were present at the Capitol protest.
“The FBI executed three federal arrest warrants early this morning at a ranch in Groveland, Florida in Lake County,” the FBI Tampa office said in a statement on X.
“The subjects taken into custody are January 6 fugitives Jonathan Daniel Pollock, Olivia Michele Pollock, and Joseph Daniel Hutchinson III. The defendants are scheduled to appear in Federal Court in Ocala, Florida on Monday, January 8. No further details concerning their capture are available at this time.”
