Trump supporter found guilty of assaulting two police officers with pepper spray in the assault on Capitol Hill

MADRID, 2 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

A 33-year-old man has been found guilty of assaulting two police officers with pepper spray during the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, and could face up to 20 years in prison for each of the two charges against him. impute.

This has been communicated by the United States Department of Justice in a statement, in which it has detailed that the citizen, from New Jersey, sprayed two security agents of the United States Congress with pepper spray, leaving them unable to fulfill their function.

One of the policemen attacked would be Brian Sicknick, who suffered two strokes and died of natural causes the day after the insurrection, as 'Axios' has learned.

The other person was a Capitol police officer, identified in court documents as 'Officer CE', who was shot directly in the eyes from a few feet away. The officer lowered her head and backed away, needing the help of another officer because she couldn't see.

Julian Elie Khater, 33, is charged with two counts of assault, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon. He along with another co-defendant, George Pierre Tanios, traveled to Washington D.C. together on January 6, when they attended former President Trump's rally and later joined protesters on the Capitol grounds.

Tanios had previously purchased two cans of bear spray and two cans of pepper spray, giving one of the pepper spray containers to Khater on Jan. 6. Both men were arrested on March 14, 2021, according to the letter.

Khater will be sentenced on Dec. 13, 2022, and faces a statutory maximum of 20 years in prison for each of two counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon.

Khater's guilty plea comes on the same day that a former New York City Police Department officer has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for using the American flagpole to assault a police officer who was trying to contain the troublemakers. The sentence is the longest given to a Jan. 6 defendant so far.

In the 19 months since January 6, 2021, more than 860 people have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the violation of the United States Capitol, including more than 260 people charged with assaulting or impeding the law enforcement.