Capitol Police play Victims, Sue Trump for 6 January
This law suit brought on by activist organization Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law focuses on White Supremacy, coordinated attacks and racial woky language in order to get the courts’ and audience attention.
Never mind that the FBi said the attack was not coordinated.
Never mind that Trump tweeted that no violence was acceptable and requested more security to include the National Guard before the event that Pelosi denied. Pelosi, feigning fear for her lives and those of her colleagues ordered National Guard for the following months to protect the Capitol although the threat was non existent.
Never mind that for months officials refused to disclose the killer of unarmed 14 year Veteran Ashli Babbit. He was not charged because of justifiable circumstances according to investigations.
THE CASE:
The seven Plaintiffs in this case are United States Capitol Police officers. Collectively, they have dedicated more than 150 years to their shared mission to protect Congress so that it can carry out its constitutional responsibilities safely and openly. On January 6, 2021, Plaintiffs and their fellow law enforcement officers risked their lives to defend the Capitol from a violent, mass attack—an attack provoked, aided, and joined by Defendants in an unlawful effort to use force, intimidation, and threats to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 Presidential election. Because of Defendants’ unlawful actions, Plaintiffs were violently assaulted, spat on, tear-gassed, bear-sprayed, subjected to racial slurs and epithets, and put in fear for their lives. Plaintiffs’ injuries, which Defendants caused, persist to this day.
2. The attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 (the “Capitol Attack” or “Attack”), was caused by Defendants. After Defendant DONALD J. TRUMP lost the November 2020 Presidential election, he and the other Defendants in this case conspired with each other and others to prevent Congress from certifying the election results through the use of force, intimidation, and threats. TRUMP and other Defendants propagated false claims of election fraud, encouraged the use of force, intimidation, and threats, and incited violence against members of Congress and the law enforcement officers whose job it was to protect them. Defendants’ unlawful efforts culminated in the January 6 mass attack on the United States Capitol and the brutal, physical assault of hundreds of law enforcement officers. Many Defendants in this case planned, aided, and actively participated in that attack. All Defendants are responsible for it.
3. Defendants’ actions violated the federal Ku Klux Klan Act, the D.C. Bias-Related Crimes Act, and other laws.
4. Racism and white supremacy pervaded Defendants’ efforts from the outset. Defendants targeted false claims of election fraud at cities and states with significant Black populations—including Atlanta (51% Black), Detroit (78% Black), Milwaukee (39% Black), Philadelphia (43% Black), and Pittsburgh (23% Black)—and sought to intimidate and threaten officials from those and other jurisdictions into overturning the will of the voters. They relied on white supremacist groups and sympathizers to organize and hold rallies and to help plan and carry out the Capitol Attack. Participants in the Attack directed racial epithets at Black officers protecting the Capitol. And after breaching the Capitol, the attackers paraded the Confederate flag and other symbols of white supremacy through the Capitol’s halls.
As detailed below, Defendants conspired to use force, intimidation, and threats to prevent Joe Biden and Kamala Harris from taking office, to prevent Congress from counting the electoral votes, and to prevent the Capitol Police from carrying out their lawful duties. Defendants’ efforts began in earnest in or about November 2020, when incoming election results showed TRUMP trailing Biden and Harris in the Presidential election. TRUMP, in concert with other Defendants, deliberately and persistently made and encouraged false claims of election fraud to discredit the outcome of the election and disingenuously incite outrage among his supporters. He and other Defendants encouraged and supported acts of violence, knowing full well that among his supporters were extremist groups and individuals, like PROUD BOYS, who had demonstrated their propensity to the use of violence against those they regarded as critical of TRUMP. Defendants and their co-conspirators used a range of means to further their efforts and carry out their plans, including traditional and social media, speeches, and interviews.
6. Responding to TRUMP’s calls, as TRUMP and other Defendants and co- conspirators intended, PROUD BOYS, OATH KEEPERS, and other Defendants planned and coordinated among themselves and with others to come to Washington, D.C., and violently attack the United States Capitol and the law enforcement officers defending it. Among other things, Defendants, including PROUD BOYS and OATH KEEPERS, raised money for, planned, and recruited co-conspirators to join in TRUMP’s January 6 rally and, ultimately, to join in the Capitol Attack.
7. Defendants’ acts in furtherance of the conspiracies described in this Complaint include, among other things, fabricating and spreading the lie that the Presidential election was stolen from TRUMP by means of election fraud; promoting and disseminating countless false claims of election fraud; intimidating and threatening state officials to prevent them from counting,
certifying, and transmitting vote counts for Biden and Harris; organizing, promoting, holding, and attending rallies; advocating for the use of force, intimidation, and threats to overturn the election; assembling people, weapons, funds, resources, and support to amass a large, violent crowd to attack the United States Capitol; attacking and overwhelming the Capitol Police and other law enforcement, which forced the officers to move from their posts defending the Capitol; raiding the Capitol; stopping Congress from counting electoral votes and announcing the result; and using the interruption in the Congressional process to attempt to further delay the count and to send electoral votes back to the states in order to prevent the election of Biden and Harris.
8. Defendants’ conspiratorial acts directly resulted in violence against the Capitol and the police officers who defended it, including Plaintiffs. Several Defendants, as well as other attackers, assaulted police officers, broke through the outer barricades surrounding the Capitol, and breached the Capitol Building itself. They shattered the Capitol Building’s windows with protective shields ripped from the hands of police officers. They laid siege to the House Chamber, where police officers, members of Congress, staffers, and workers in the House Rostrum were forced to don gas masks and barricade themselves in fear for their lives. They breached and desecrated the Senate Chamber, in which Capitol Police, including Plaintiffs in this action, had helped protect members of Congress. They pursued members of Congress and Vice President Mike Pence to capture, assault, and violently punish them for carrying out their constitutional duties. Those Defendants who did not participate in the violence provoked it, encouraged it, planned for it, used it to further their conspiratorial goals, ratified it, and failed to take any action to stop it.
9. TRUMP employed, planned for, and encouraged the use of force, intimidation, and threats to try to stop the Congressional count of electoral votes on January 6. He followed the
Capitol Attack on television and social media as it happened, and despite requests made to TRUMP to call off the attackers—including from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy—he refused to do so for hours as he watched on live television the attackers overrun the Capitol and threaten its lawful occupants. Instead, TRUMP encouraged and supported the attackers. While the Attack was ongoing, TRUMP and his co-conspirators contacted members of Congress, not to offer support or protection, but to pressure them to delay further and to stop the Congressional count. Even after the attackers—including white supremacists and hate groups—were finally repelled and cleared from the Capitol, TRUMP ratified their attack and praised them, telling them, “We love you. You’re very special,” and to “Remember this day forever!” TRUMP later confirmed that he and the attackers shared the same goal, stating, “Personally, what I wanted is what they wanted.”
10. Defendants assaulted and injured Plaintiffs and others, and caused millions of dollars of damage to the Capitol Building and grounds. Through those actions and the actions described in this Complaint, Defendants violated the Ku Klux Klan Act, which was designed to prevent precisely the kinds of politically and racially motivated violence they caused and committed on January 6. Defendants also committed bias-motivated acts of terrorism and other torts in violation of District of Columbia law. The injuries and damages suffered by Plaintiffs were direct and foreseeable consequences of the acts of TRUMP, co-Defendants, and their co- conspirators. Plaintiffs suffered significant physical, psychological, and emotional injuries as a result. Defendants must be held accountable. Plaintiffs file this Complaint to do just that, and to help ensure that what took place on January 6 never happens again.
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