The District of Columbia Attorney General, Karl Racine, announced on Tuesday that the District of Columbia is suing the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys for damages from the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Ky.
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The District of Columbia Attorney General, Karl Racine, announced on Tuesday that the District of Columbia is suing the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys for damages from the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Ky.
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The District of Columbia is suing the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers for allegedly plotting to terrorize the city with the January 6 violent attack on the United States Capitol.
The civil action has been filed of the District attorney general, Karl Racine, in federal court in Washington, DC. It accuses two far-right groups, their leaders and certain associates of coordinating and plotting the violence on January 6 to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power.
“In the complaint, we specifically allege that vigilantes, agitators, and masterminds of an illegal mob conspired against the District of Columbia, law enforcement officers and its inhabitants by planning, promoting, and participating in a violent attack on the United States Capitol,” Racine told reporters on Tuesday.
It is our own citizens who have been destroyed the freedoms and ideals that our country was founded on and continues to aspire to achieve.
Racine called January 6 a “brazen, violent and deadly attack that has traumatized this city, this community and our country.”
The Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers have faced civil lawsuits stemming from the events of January 6 – one submitted by members of the National Assembly, another police officer. As in those cases, the groups accused in the County civil action were in violation of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, a law passed after the Civil War to attempt to protect Black citizens from violence and intimidation.
In addition to the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, the latest lawsuit names the group’s leaders – Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and Stewart Rhodes respectively – as defendants, as well as a number of suspected members of the two organisations. faces criminal charges related to January 6.
The complaint states that following former President Trump’s election defeat, the Proud Boys and Oath-Keepers began working together “to conspire, publicize, recruit, and fund the campaign.” attack according to their plan.”
The suit says the planning and coordination came about on January 6 when the defendants and other rioters broke through police lines and entered the Capitol.
In doing so, the lawsuit says, the rioters threatened and physically assaulted DC police officers and people inside the Capitol.
“Following this attack, the Capitol was left in disarray, and the County had to deal with the aftermath of the riot that should have been a smooth transition of presidential power,” the lawsuit said. peace”.
The district is seeking punishment and damages will be determined at trial.
