FBI arrests ‘dreaded’ Jan. 6 defendant they say rammed ‘Trump’ sign into police line
“We ain’t leaving! We ain’t going nowhere!” Knight yelled at officers, according to the FBI. “Here are the b—-es. Here are the b—-es.”
Knight also helped use a giant metal-framed “TRUMP” sign as a ram against a line of police officers and then shoved an officer, according to the FBI.
The intent of Jan. 6 participants who touched that sign has been difficult for courts to discern. Some rioters have been convicted in connection with their use of the giant sign, but one rioter was acquitted on a charge connected to their handling of the “TRUMP” sign, with a judge finding the evidence “ambiguous,” though the defendant was convicted of assaulting officers at multiple other points during the attack.
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 1,425 rioters and secured more than 1,019 convictions against Jan. 6 defendants in the more than three years since the Capitol attack. More than 540 rioters have been given prison sentences ranging from a few days behind bars to 22 years in federal prison for former Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy along with three others in the organization.
On Friday, a Trump-appointed federal judge whose dismissal of obstruction of justice charges against Jan. 6 rioters is pending before the Supreme Court convicted a man known as “Sedition Panda” of all the Capitol attack charges he faced. Later in the day on Friday, former Boston K-9 officer Joseph Fisher — who assaulted a Capitol Police officer with a chair — called his own conduct on Jan. 6 “egregious” before he was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison. Christopher Quaglin, a violent Jan. 6 rioter who was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison on Friday, said during his sentencing hearing that Trump would be back in office in eight short months and offered his services to a future Trump administration before insulting the Trump-appointed judge who sentenced him.