(Washington) A participant in the Capitol assault on January 6, 2021 by supporters of Donald Trump was sentenced to life imprisonment on Wednesday for projected the police officers who investigated him.
Eward Kelley, 36, was found guilty in November by a Tennessee jury of three counts, including that of the assassination of federal employees.
He had notably established a “black list” of FBI agents, the federal police, and other people involved in the investigation into his actions on January 6, 2021, according to the accusation.
Edward Kelley is one of the more than 1,500 Capitol attackers, an unprecedented desecration of the sanctuary of American democracy, to which Donald Trump granted his presidential pardon on January 20, on the first day of his new mandate.
Edward Kelley’s lawyers tried in vain to argue that this grace also covered the facts of which he is accused in this file. But the prosecutors stressed that this criminal project dated from December 2022, almost two years after the Capitol assault, as well as its lack of remorse.
On January 20, 2025, Donald Trump won the largest investigation by the Department of Justice, graciating by decree of some 1250 condemned in this file, switching to the sentence of 14 others and ordering the prosecution against a few hundred accused of judgment.
On that day, hundreds of his supporters, heated white by his baseless accusations of electoral fraud, had stormed the Capitol, in an attempt to prevent the victory of his democratic opponent Joe Biden.
