Texas man pleads guilty to assaulting police on Jan. 6

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A Texas man who was arrested in December on multiple counts of assaulting police officers inside and outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of assault on law enforcement with a dangerous weapon and faces a possible prison term of at least three years and as many as six years.

Lucas Denney, 44, of Mansfield, Tex., created a militia in Texas he called “Patriot Boys of North Texas,” which he said was aligned with the Proud Boys, a far-right group with a history of violence, court records show. Denney was captured on multiple videos and photographs battling with police on the West Terrace of the Capitol, pushing with a mob inside the Capitol, and then as part of a large crowd that grabbed individual officers who were fighting the rioters, including D.C. police officer Michael Fanone.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/03/17/denney-pleads-guilty/
 
"Photographs show Denney swinging his fist and grabbing at Fanone, who was dragged into the crowd, shocked with a Taser and suffered a heart attack. Denney is also seen picking up a long plastic pipe, swinging it at another officer earlier in the riot, then hurling it in to the police lines. He admitted Thursday to that one act, and that the PVC pipe qualified as a dangerous weapon."
 
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