“We’re not leaving! We’re not going anywhere!” Knight yelled at the officers, according to the FBI. “Here are the b—- es. Here are the b—- es.”
Knight also helped use a giant metal-framed “TRUMP” sign as a battering ram against a line of police officers and then pushed an officer, according to the FBI.
The intent of the Jan. 6 participants who touched that sign has been difficult for the courts to discern. Some protesters were convicted for using the giant sign, but one protester was acquitted of a charge related to using the “TRUMP” sign, with a judge finding the evidence “ambiguous”, although the defendant was convicted of assaulting police officers at several other points during the attack.
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 1,425 rioters and secured more than 1,019 convictions against Jan. 6 defendants in the more than three years since the attack on the Capitol. More than 540 protesters received prison sentences ranging from a few days behind bars to 22 years in federal prison for former Proud Boys president Enrique Tarrio, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy along with three other members of the organization.
On Friday, a Trump-appointed federal judge, whose dismissal of obstruction of justice charges against the January 6 protesters is pending before the Supreme Court, sentenced a man known as “Sedition Panda” on all counts of attacking the Capitol he faced. Later in the day Friday, former Boston K-9 officer Joseph Fisher — who assaulted a Capitol Police officer with a chair — called his own conduct on Jan. 6 “egregious” before being sentenced to 20 months of federal prison. Christopher Quaglin, a violent Jan. 6 protester who was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison on Friday, said during his sentencing hearing that Trump would be back in office in just eight months and offered his services to a future Trump administration before insulting Trump. -named the judge who sentenced him.
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