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Eugene

(61,969 posts) Thu Mar 7, 2024, 10:15 PM Mar 7

Indiana man pleads guilty to assaulting police with baton and makeshift weapons during Capitol riot

Source: Associated Press

An Indiana man pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges that he used a metal baton, a lamp and other makeshift weapons to assault police officers who were protecting the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Donald Trump supporters.

Curtis Logan Tate, 32, struck at least two officers with the baton that he brought to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, hitting one in the hand and the other repeatedly on the helmet.

Tate also threw a broken table leg, a floor lamp, a speaker box and a shoe at officers guarding a tunnel entrance on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace. He struck a third officer’s arm and damaged a window when he threw the speaker box.

Tate pleaded guilty to three felony counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding police using a deadly or dangerous weapon, court records show.

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BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Updated 4:36 PM EST, March 7, 2024

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/curtis-tate-guilty-capitol-riot-411e3579d4c61b9a85f209c270e4db58

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Indiana man pleads guilty to assaulting police with baton and makeshift weapons during Capitol riot (Original Post) Eugene Mar 7 OP

When will they go after the ringleaders? Irish_Dem Mar 7 #1

Hoosier Loser. czarjak Mar 7 #2

..U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to sentence Tate on July 9. Sentencing guidel riversedge Mar 7 #3

Irish_Dem

(47,564 posts)

1. When will they go after the ringleaders?

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Mar 7, 2024, 10:18 PM

Mar 7

Not just the foot soldiers?

czarjak

(11,306 posts)

2. Hoosier Loser.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Mar 7, 2024, 10:24 PM

Mar 7

Be there. Will be wild.

riversedge

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3. ..U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to sentence Tate on July 9. Sentencing guidel

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Thu Mar 7, 2024, 10:47 PM

Mar 7

Glad to see a prison sentence hopefully could be included

............U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to sentence Tate on July 9. Sentencing guidelines call for Tate to receive a term of imprisonment ranging from five years and three months to six years and six months, although the judge isn’t bound by that recommendation.
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