Jan. 6 rioters accuse police of excessive force in class action lawsuit
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The lawsuit alleges that "indiscriminate" use of force by police that day caused physical and emotional injuries to members of the pro-Trump mob.
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Jan. 6 rioters accuse police of excessive force in class action lawsuit The lawsuit alleges that "indiscriminate" use of force by police that day caused physical and emotional injuries to members of the pro-Trump mob. Listen to this article with a free account 00:00 00:00 Rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images file Share Add NBC News to Google March 30, 2026, 9:02 PM EDT By Ryan J. Reilly and Raquel Coronell Uribe Several participants in the Jan. 6 riot have filed a class action lawsuit against the federal government , seeking millions of dollars in damages over their claims that police used excessive force against the pro-Trump mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol in 2021. The lawsuit , filed in Florida on Friday, alleges that police “indiscriminately launched explosive munitions, chemical agents, and impact projectiles into a peaceful crowd and physically assaulted members of the crowd” as rioters stormed the Capitol to contest the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential election victory. Alan Fischer, a Florida man who was associated with the Proud Boys and was identified with help from his modeling photos , is a lead plaintiff in the case alongside two Jan. 6 participants who were never charged: Patrick and Marie Sullivan. Fischer was granted clemency by President Donald Trump along with roughly 1,500 other Capitol riot defendants when Trump started his second term last year, leading to the dismissal of Fischer’s case before it was adjudicated. The lawsuit includes the names of 35 other people who an attorney said filed written administrative claims more than six months ago under the Federal Tort Claims Act. The list includes a former Boston police K-9 officer who was sentenced to 20 months in federal prison after he called his actions on Jan. 6 “an abomination”; another Proud Boy who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for assaulting officers with pepper spray gel after he cut off his monitoring bra...
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