Wu: ‘My understanding’ no Boston Police officers were in Capitol during riot

Mayor Michelle Wu stated the assumption now could be that no Boston Cops entered the Capitol throughout the Jan. 6 riots, although the inner investigations proceed a yr and a half later.

“My understanding is that there have been no officers contained in the constructing on that day,” Wu stated in response to questions on GBH’s Boston Public Radio.

The Boston Police Division has had an lively investigation because the occasions of January 2021, however has not launched any conclusions. A division spokesman stated the investigations stay open, and that there’s nothing new accessible from them.

Wu was being requested about stories that two Boston Cops have been investigated in connection to the occasions of Jan. 6, when supporters of then-outgoing President Donald Trump pushed into the U.S. Capitol, the place the Senate was resulting from certify now-President Biden’s election win. The pols needed to hustle away from the mob, however then licensed the election later that day.

In response to an Related Press story this week, greater than 840 individuals have been charged with federal crimes associated to Jan. 6. Over 340 have pleaded responsible, largely to misdemeanors, and over 200 have been sentenced. Greater than 260 individuals are charged with assaulting or impeding regulation enforcement throughout the riot, in keeping with the Justice Division.

The longest jail sentence for a Capitol rioter to this point is 5 years and three months, with two completely different individuals receiving that for assaulting Capitol Police.

In Boston, no police officer has confronted legal fees, and Superintendent-in-Chief Greg Lengthy has stated in a metropolis council listening to that if he thought somebody from his division had been concerned in storming the Capitol, they wouldn’t work there anymore.

“The FBI and federal companions, I believe, have gotten fairly good details about who was within the Capitol in all other ways, proper, whether or not it’s from cell telephones, or video, et cetera. ” Wu continued when the GBH hosts had been asking her about Jan. 6 and Boston Police. “And so I haven’t seen the inner assessment of these recordsdata or something that may have been related between Boston police and that incident.”

A U.S. Home of Representatives panel is periodically holding televised hearings over the previous a number of weeks about Jan. 6 and makes an attempt by Trump and allies to overturn the election.

Democrats proceed to induce the Division of Justice to deliver fees in opposition to Trump and members of his inside circle — certainly, the GBH hosts requested Wu whether or not she thought Trump needs to be prosecuted, and he or she responded “Clearly, sure” — however the former president has not confronted fees, and denies any wrongdoing.