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![]() ![]() View Gallery: Photos: Damage inside the US Capitol Gianforti noted the video evidence and said: “I would just submit that a picture is worth a thousand words.”Īfter the attack, the prosecutor said, Sabol booked a flight from Boston Logan International Airport to Zurich, Switzerland, where he would not be able to be extradited to the U.S. ![]() Gianforti said Sabol had offered investigators “self-serving statements” saying he was trying to protect the officer but had also “admitted to being in a fit of rage that day and that the details of the day were quote, ‘cloudy.’” The prosecutor said other images show the defendant holding a police baton across a police officer’s neck, and “we have reason to believe he may have assaulted another police officer to procure that baton.” More: As Capitol riot arrests climb, FBI says extremist Oath Keepers conspired in attack More: New City's Christopher Kelly faces charges “This allows another man, who’s standing nearby, to beat that police officer with an American flag ironically, as the officer is being dragged down the stairs.” “We see the defendant dragging a police officer down a set of stairs just outside the Capitol,” Gianforti said. Attorney Benjamin Gianforti said Sabol identified himself to law enforcement authorities as the black-gloved man in the video wearing a brown or tan jacket, a black or gray helmet and a green backpack. ![]() The judge said he also saw video footage that showed Sabol going back up the stairs after the first officer was dragged down to possibly look for someone else to bring “down those stairs into the teeth of that mob that was at the Capitol that day.”Īssistant U.S. Sabol, part of a group of people dragging a law enforcement officer down the steps of a building at the Capitol, where that officer has been repeatedly assaulted by a number of people, apparently including Mr. Sabol was arrested Friday morning at the Westchester Medical Center. Krause said the allegations were “very disturbing, deeply troubling” and that Sabol needed to remain behind bars as a danger to the community and a risk to flee. Magistrate Judge Andrew Krause, based in White Plains, said during an electronic hearing that he found the alleged actions by Jeffrey Sabol, a 51-year-old born in Utica, New York, “beyond the pale and it is troubling to a degree that is really. 6 was ordered held without bail Friday after a prosecutor said the man afterward tried to flee to Switzerland and commit suicide. “It’s hurt our country immensely and it’s going to take years to get over it,” said the judge, who pointed out that more than 100 police officers were injured in the riot and that several committed suicide soon after.Watch Video: US Capitol riot: Police officer dragged down steps and beatenĪ Colorado geophysicist accused of dragging a police officer down steps to be beaten by an American flag outside the U.S. Who's Been Arrested: Search USA TODAY's databaseĪfter Carlton’s attorney, Richard Landes, said that the riot “was not an accident” and resulted from planning and false statements by people including Trump and key members of Congress, Hogan said he remains profoundly troubled by the events that day. 6 rioters who attacked police get most prison time, but majority of those sentenced avoid jail Carter asked for Carlton to be locked up for three months.Ĭarlton’s companion, Baker County resident Bradley Weeks, is awaiting trial on charges that include a felony count of obstructing an official proceeding, the meeting of Congress where President Joe Biden’s election victory over former President Donald Trump was certified.Ĭarlton told the judge he had been "humbled" by events since the riot and was glad for church friends who had helped him restart his life after losing a job he'd expected to be a career. "I'm just done with politics," he said.įorgiving rioters: An apologetic rioter had a moment during a Jan. Attorney Jamie Carter told the judge after recounting how Carlton and a companion moved through a crowded area where an irritant like tear gas was wafting outside the Capitol in order to reach an entrance the crowd had breached. “As a law enforcement officer, he knew better and he chose to do this,” Assistant U.S. ![]()
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