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Watch – Capitol mob ‘aimed to capture and assassinate officials’, US prosecutors claim

Police officer Michael Fanone said on CNN that rioters went for his gun, saying “Kill him with his own gun.”

Joe Mellor by Joe Mellor
2021-01-16 13:01
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The out of control pro-Trump mob that stormed the US Capitol last week aimed to “capture and assassinate elected officials”, US federal prosecutors said in court documents.

It comes as police officer Michael Fanone said on CNN that rioters went for his gun, saying “Kill him with his own gun”. He told CNN, “It was all about self preservation…I “appealed to their humanity…I just remember yelling out I have kids.”

Chilling: @DCPoliceDept officer Michael Fanone said on CNN that rioters went for his gun, saying “Kill him with his own gun”.
He told CNN, “It was all about self preservation…I “appealed to their humanity…I just remember yelling out I have kids”
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— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) January 15, 2021

The assassination emarks came in a motion prosecutors filed in the case against Jacob Chansley, the man who took part in the insurrection while sporting face paint, no shirt and a furry hat with horns.

Prosecutors say that after Chansley climbed up to the dais where Vice President Mike Pence had been presiding moments earlier, Chansley wrote a threatening note to Mr Pence that said: “It’s only a matter of time, justice is coming.”

Vice President Mike Pence (Alex Brandon/AP)
Vice President Mike Pence (Alex Brandon/AP)

Mr Pence and other congressional leaders had been ushered out of the chamber by the Secret Service and US Capitol Police before the rioters stormed into the room.

“Strong evidence, including Chansley’s own words and actions at the Capitol, supports that the intent of the Capitol rioters was to capture and assassinate elected officials in the United States Government,” prosecutors wrote in their memo urging the judge to keep Chansley behind bars.

Gerald Williams, Chansley’s lawyer, did not return a phone call and email seeking comment.

Detention hearing

A detention hearing is scheduled in his case for later on Friday.

The FBI has been investigating whether any of the rioters had plots to kidnap members of Congress and hold them hostage, focusing particularly on the men seen carrying plastic zip tie handcuffs and pepper spray.

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Prosecutors raised a similar prospect on Friday in the case of a former Air Force officer who they alleged carried plastic zip-tie handcuffs because he intended “to take hostages.”

But so far, the Justice Department has not publicly released any specific evidence on the plots or explained how the rioters planned to carry them out.

QAnon Shaman

Chansley, who calls himself the QAnon Shaman and has long been a fixture at Trump rallies, surrendered to the FBI field office in Phoenix on Saturday.

News photos show him at the riot shirtless, with his face painted and wearing a fur hat with horns, carrying a US flag attached to a wooden pole topped with a spear.

Chansley told investigators he came to the Capitol “at the request of the president that all ‘patriots’ come to DC on January 6 2021”.

An indictment unsealed in Washington him with civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding, disorderly conduct in a restricted building, and demonstrating in a Capitol building.

Related: ‘Too little, too late’ – Twitter blocks 70,000 QAnon accounts after US Capitol riot

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