Capitol Police officer indicted for obstruction after riot

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FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021, record photograph insurrections loyal to President Donald Trump rally astatine the U.S. Capitol successful Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

By: The Associated Press & Scripps National

Posted at 11:39 AM, Oct 15, 2021

and past updated 2021-10-15 12:45:59-04

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. Capitol Police serviceman has been indicted connected obstruction of justness charges aft prosecutors accidental helium helped to fell grounds of a rioter's engagement successful January’s insurrection.

The officer, Michael A. Riley, is accused of tipping disconnected idiosyncratic who participated successful the riot by telling them to region posts from Facebook that had showed the idiosyncratic wrong the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, according to tribunal documents.

Riley had worked connected Jan. 6 and has been a Capitol Police serviceman for astir 25 years.

Prosecutors accidental helium had sent the idiosyncratic a connection telling them that helium was an serviceman with the constabulary unit who “agrees with your governmental stance."

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