Jan. 6 capitol rioter admits to using 'Trump 2020' and Confederate flag pole to assault cops, wrestling barricades away [View all]

Source: Law & Crime

Nov 3rd, 2024, 1:06 pm


A 54-year-old Indiana man pleaded guilty Friday for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Troy Allen Koen entered the guilty plea to the charge of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a press release. He’s scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 26. Prosecutors say Koen was among the group of rioters who pushed their way past Capitol police and into the west side of the building. Koen reportedly “made his way to the front of the line” and started pulling bike racks away from police officers who had erected them as a barricade.

After successfully fighting through the first barrier of defense, Koen yelled and pointed at cops. He then led the group that overpowered police officers holding another barricade, prosecutors said.

“As Koen and the others violently seized the second barricade from the police line and passed it back into the crowd of rioters, a police officer was knocked forward and dragged down onto the ground by a different rioter,” the press release said. “Eventually, the mob successfully overpowered and overran the police line, and the officers quickly retreated to the Lower West Terrace and congregated in the Lower West Terrace Tunnel, the site of some of the most violent attacks against law enforcement that day.”

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