A Tennessee man, Devin McNulty, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for assaulting law enforcement officers during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The incident disrupted a joint session of Congress convened to count the electoral votes for the 2020 presidential election.
McNulty, 28, from Loudon, Tennessee, was also sentenced to 24 months of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan. He had previously pleaded guilty to a felony count of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers.
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According to court documents, McNulty was first seen among the crowd at the west front of the Capitol building. He scaled the retaining wall to reach the Upper West Terrace and was spotted walking from the west to the north side of the Capitol at 2:52 p.m. McNulty then joined a group of rioters attempting to breach the north door of the Capitol.
Footage showed McNulty affected by a chemical irritant and turning back to the crowd. Later, as law enforcement officers attempted to clear the terrace, McNulty was seen pushing against an officer’s riot shield multiple times. The officer, from the Prince George’s County Police Department, recalled the interaction as aggressive, with McNulty trying to gain control of their shields.
The FBI arrested McNulty on June 13, 2023, in Atlanta. The case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Department of Justice National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section, with assistance from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
The investigation was conducted by the FBI’s Knoxville and Washington Field Offices, with support from the U.S. Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department. The FBI continues to investigate the events of January 6, with over 1,450 individuals charged to date, including more than 500 for assaulting or impeding law enforcement.
Anyone with tips can call 1-800-CALL-FBI or visit tips.fbi.gov.
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