Mediaite reports:
As several trials and sentencing hearings for Jan. 6 rioters took place this week, new details and video footage from the day of the attack have emerged.
Among those new details is a video showing a giant Trump banner being used as a “battering ram against police” by pro-Trump rioters attempting to break police lines to enter the U.S. Capitol that day.
Howard Richardson, 72, was sentenced in late August to 46 months in prison for attacking law enforcement officers with a Trump flag and for his role in helping the mob use the large Trump banner to ram police as well.
Read the full article. As you watch the clip, you can hear someone blowing a shofar in the background.
Newly released Jan. 6 body-worn camera footage shows the mob using an enormous TRUMP sign as a battering ram against police. pic.twitter.com/8pPMupf2cn
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 28, 2022
Another angle of the attack with the enormous TRUMP sign: pic.twitter.com/jIOhfXFFv7
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 28, 2022
Here’s the flagpole attack at question. Worth nothing Howard Richardson’s son is a police officer. pic.twitter.com/uyTKbxcqGL
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 28, 2022
“Richardson also wrongly insisted that he carried a ‘Back the Blue’ flag on January 6 and not a Trump flag… Apparently [unfazed] by the irony of using a pro-police symbol to attack a police officer…” https://t.co/dTGPMkbMcp
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) September 28, 2022