Attorney General Merrick Garland touted the U.S. Department of Justice’s commitment to the “civil rights and civil liberties of everyone in this country” and expressed pride in the arrest of 1,583 people on the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 protest and riot at the U.S. Capitol.
The DOJ, in the final Jan. 6 statistical report under Garland’s tenure, said the FBI has arrested 1,583 people on Jan. 6 charges across four years. Nearly 320 people were arrested in the past year alone. More arrests and filing of charges are expected before President-elect Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office on Jan. 20. It is widely anticipated that Trump will pardon Jan. 6 defendants.
‘My family has been devastated by the government over the last four
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