Metropolitan Police Department officers gave protesters free access to a door on the west side of the Capitol for 12 minutes on Jan. 6, 2021, after supervisors ordered them to retreat, leading one officer to remark, “I can’t believe they let them in,” a new federal court filing alleges.
Defendant William Pope, 37, of Topeka, Kansas, asked U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras to compel federal prosecutors to produce what he called “highly explosive and exculpatory materials” needed for his defense.
Victoria C. White, the Minnesota woman struck in the head, face, and neck nearly 40 times by Metropolitan Police Department officers at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, pleaded guilty on Aug. 17 to a felony civil disorder and aiding and abetting count as part of an agreement with federal prosecutors.
Ms. White, 41, of Rochester, Minn., had been facing a Sept. 14 trial before Judge John D. Bates in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C., on four criminal counts lodged in a superseding indictment on Jan. 6, 2022.
Considered a ‘Critical Missing’ case, Amaya-Gonzalez was last seen at around 4:35 p.m. on Monday, May 16. She was wearing a gray sweater, tan pants, red shirt, and black and white sneakers.