A scene from the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol in 2021. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)
Around 1,600 people so far have faced federal charges relating to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including more than 600 who allegedly assaulted or resisted police, Politico reported.
Nearly 200 of the defendants were charged with carrying a dangerous weapon on Capitol grounds and 153 were accused of destruction of government property – but the new figures released Monday are the first time the Justice Department has estimated how many cases are yet to be prosecuted, Politico added.
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Demonstrators and U.S. Capitol police fight over a barricade as the Capitol building grounds are breached in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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"We've got to get back to establishing basic democratic norms," Biden told reporters in the White House East Room. "I think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy. I'm hopeful that we are beyond that."
Fox News’ Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
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