DOJ Deletes Online Database Of Capitol Riot Arrests

CNN reports:

As President Donald Trump this week sought to rewrite the history of his supporters’ attack on the US Capitol, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of January 6 rioters was removed from the Department of Justice’s website. The searchable database served as an easily accessible repository of all cases prosecuted by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.

The DOJ site’s removal was celebrated by those convicted for their actions on January 6 and their supporters. “This is a huge victory for J6ers,” Brandon Straka, who was among those pardoned by Trump for his role in the Capitol riot, wrote on X, adding, “This site was one of countless weapons of harassment used by the federal government to make life impossible for its targets from J6.”

Straka credited the new Trump-appointed acting US attorney in Washington, DC, Ed Martin [photo], for the site’s removal. Martin was an organizer with the “Stop the Steal” movement and was involved in the financing of the January 6, 2021, Trump rally on the Ellipse that occurred directly before the attack on the Capitol.

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DOJ is deleting pages that link to Jan. 6 court documents. This page use to provide documents about a retired NYPD officer sentenced to (pardoned from) 10 years for beating a Capitol police office with a flag pole multiple times. cc: @TomDreisbach pic.twitter.com/c5x4L4N9Qv

— Charles Lane (@_charleslane) January 25, 2025