South Carolina man pleads guilty after allegedly pepper-spraying officers during Jan. 6 riot
Source: WIS-TV 10/Columbia, SC
Published: Mar. 22, 2024 at 6:21 PM EDT
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A South Carolina man connected with the January 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol pleaded guilty on Thursday to assaulting law enforcement officers, according to the office of Matthew Graves, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Thomas Andrew Casselman, 30, of Walhalla, South Carolina, was one of hundreds of people who disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress intended to ascertain and count the electoral votes for the 2020 presidential election.
Court documents noted Casselman was positioned directly in front of a police line on the West Plaza of the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6.
At around 2:25 p.m., as the police line began to fall, Casselman used a canister of pepper-spray in close range the line, hitting several Metropolitan Police Department Officers.
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