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There is no verifiable, publicly available count of how many people who participated in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are currently employed as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I...
Four law enforcement officers who responded to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol died by suicide in the days, weeks, and months following the riot, and one officer, U.S. Capitol Police O...
No law enforcement officers were officially recorded as killed on the grounds of on January 6, 2021, but multiple officers who responded to died in the days, weeks and months that followed; mainstream...
At least 138–174 law enforcement officers were reported injured in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, with dozens suffering concussions, traumatic brain injuries, cracked ribs, spinal da...
Yes: investigators and prosecutors established that some people brought and other deadly weapons to the events and that at least some of those firearms were on Capitol grounds and, in some prosecution...
Five deaths are commonly cited in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol when counting deaths that occurred on or immediately after the violence on the Capitol grounds: four c...
Jake Lang was federally charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol with a multi‑count indictment that accused him of assaulting officers with a baseball bat and other o...
No—there has never been a successful invocation of the 25th Amendment to remove or permanently displace Donald J. Trump from the presidency; what occurred instead were urgent discussions, public calls...
Multiple contemporaneous official inventories and photo reports from January 2021 make , while some contemporaneous statements and later commentary claimed rioters smeared feces and urine inside the b...
The officer who shot Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021, is a U.S. Capitol Police lieutenant who initially remained unnamed but later identified in reporting; federal prosecutors declined to bring crimi...
The estimated dollar value of direct physical damage to the U.S. Capitol during the January 6, 2021 riot varies across official filings and later government tallies: early Justice Department and Archi...
Available sources show no record that President Trump formally ordered 10,000–20,000 National Guard troops to the U.S. Capitol before or on January 6, 2021; multiple fact‑checks and official timelines...
Government watchdogs and major news outlets say no undercover FBI employees were present at the Capitol or embedded in the Jan. 6 crowds; the Justice Department Inspector General’s report concluded “n...
, a who pleaded guilty to four misdemeanor counts stemming from his presence at the , had not been sent to jail as of the latest reporting: his sentencing had been scheduled for March 6, 2025 but obse...
Estimates of damage to the U.S. Capitol from the Jan. 6, 2021 attack vary across official filings and reporting: the Architect of the Capitol and related agencies put direct property damage to the Cap...
The death toll from the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is contested in public reporting because counts depend on whether deaths that occurred days or months later and those of law‑enforce...
The publicly available reporting and analyses present of all people injured during the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack, but multiple contemporary accounts indicate injuries ranged from dozens of ...
Officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, sustained a wide spectrum of injuries ranging from concussions and traumatic brain injuries to broken bones, lacerations, chemical exposure, ...
The number of people who died “as a direct result” of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot depends on definitions and which deaths are counted; contemporary reporting and official summaries most commonly ...
Available reporting shows President Donald Trump discussed and floated deploying National Guard forces around January 6, 2021, but there is no consensus in the record that he specifically ordered troo...