A U.S. District Judge heard testimony without a jury before he convicted former official, Federico Guillermo Klein, and co-defendant, Steven Cappuccio, of assault charges and other felony offenses stemming from the Jan 6. Capitol riot.
Klein and Cappuccio were among nine co-defendants charged with crimes related to one of the most violent and pivotal episodes of the Jan. 6 siege: brutal waves of hand-to-hand combat between rioters and police officers in a tunnel leading to a Capitol entrance on the Lower West Terrace.
McFadden allowed Klein to remain free under house arrest until his sentencing but ordered Cappuccio to be jailed immediately after the verdict. Klein shook Cappuccio's hand in the courtroom before a deputy marshal handcuffed him. "With the shield as a wedge, Klein and other rioters pried the doors open again and continued their attacks on the police in the tunnel, which lasted for more than two more hours," prosecutors wrote.
“All the while, Cappuccio continued to hold his phone in the air, recording the violence between the rioters and the police line,” they wrote.
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