A Pennsylvania woman accused of encouraging the Jan. 6 theft of a laptop in one of outgoing House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's offices was found guilty of six of eight charges by a jury on Monday, including impeding police officers and participating in a civil disorder.
NEW: DOJ is asking for Riley Williams to be taken into custody immediately following her conviction on six counts.Riley Williams was captured on video prodding a fellow rioter to steal a laptop from the speaker's conference room during the ransacking of the Capitol and was charged with eight counts. The jury reached the verdict on the six counts unanimously but was hung on a charge relating to aiding and abetting the theft of the laptop charge as well as an obstruction charge.
Williams's trial commenced on Nov. 8 in federal court. Prosecutors showed members of the jury an array of footage outlining her activities during the storming of the Capitol, including her encouraging rioters to charge into the speaker's offices, according to the report. “The danger of the mob is in the numbers, in the crush of people in that chaos,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Samuel Dalke contended in his closing arguments last week, the Washington Post reported. “And the danger is so much worse when someone … is focusing the power of that mob. Everywhere the defendant went on Jan. 6, she dialed up the chaos.”
"That's how turned around she was," Ulrich explained, per NBC."She initially thought she was entering the White House."
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