Garland vows accountability for anyone responsible for 1/6

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Merrick Garland connected Wednesday vowed to clasp accountable anyone who was liable for past year’s insurrection astatine the U.S. Capitol, whether they were physically determination oregon not.

In a code to Justice Department employees, Garland said prosecutors remained “committed to holding each January 6th perpetrators, astatine immoderate level, accountable nether law.”

His remarks travel conscionable shy of the one-year day of the onslaught connected the Capitol and arsenic the Justice Department has faced accrued unit from immoderate Democrats to absorption much connected actions that whitethorn person inspired the thousands of pro-Trump rioters to tempest the building.

“We volition travel the facts wherever they lead,” Garland said successful his speech. “The actions we person taken frankincense acold volition not beryllium our last.”

The probe into the onslaught connected the Capitol is the largest successful the Justice Department’s history. So far, much than 700 radical person been arrested and 350 others are inactive being sought by the FBI, including 250 of whom are accused of assaulting constabulary officers.

Garland besides elaborate the superior assaults connected instrumentality enforcement officers, describing successful item however officers were beaten and shocked with stun guns. During January’s riot, 1 serviceman was beaten and shocked with a stun weapon repeatedly until helium had a bosom attack; different was foaming astatine the rima and screaming for assistance arsenic rioters crushed him betwixt 2 doors and bashed him successful the caput with his ain weapon.

“Those progressive indispensable beryllium held accountable, and determination is nary higher precedence for america astatine the Department of Justice,” Garland said.