– How it’s decided which people get charged with the Jan. 6 Capitol Riots and which do not.

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Non-political. Simply curious from a legal perspective. By what criteria it is decided, “Yes, charge this person” and “No, do not charge this person”

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It depends whether or not they did something that is legally actionable that the prosecutors feel confident they could get a conviction on.

So people merely swept along by the crowd who did not themselves do anything violent largely have been spared. While people that were caught on camera doing things like assaulting police officers or destroying public property have been prosecuted.

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