DOJ releases series of videos showing assault on Officer Sicknick

Описание: Never-before-seen video from the January 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol offers a new look at a violent confrontation between fallen U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and two rioters indicted for assaulting him.

Several videos of the confrontation were released to WUSA9 after a successful legal challenge by its parent company TEGNA and other media outlets. The footage was compiled from six surveillance videos, three body camera videos recorded by DC Police officers and one open source cell phone video. The videos were shown during a court hearing for one of the defendants, George Tanios, but were not included on the official docket, which is why a judge ordered them released.

Tanios, 39, a sandwich shop owner in Morgantown, West Virginia, and his co-defendant, 32-year-old Julian Khater, of Pennsylvania, were indicted in March on 10 counts, including conspiracy to injure an officer, assault on a federal officer with a dangerous weapon and engaging in physical violence in a restricted grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon casing significant bodily injury. If found guilty, they could potentially face decades in prison.

In the videos, Khater, marked by a red arrow, can be seen appearing to hold up a canister and move it back and forth. Nearby officers, including Sicknick, marked with a blue arrow, can be seen in a bodycam video covering their faces and moving away. » Subscribe to WUSA9: https://bit.ly/2lO8e2F

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