Byron York's Daily Memo: A Capitol riot story | Washington Examiner

Byron York's Daily Memo: A Capitol riot story | Washington Examiner: A CAPITOL RIOT STORY. The Justice Department calls the Capitol riot investigation "one of the largest in American history , both in terms of the number of defendants prosecuted and the nature and volume of the evidence." Some of the more than 600 defendants are charged with serious offenses, having broken into the Capitol building and engaged in ugly hand-to-hand battles with badly-outnumbered police. But as FBI Director Christopher Wray said, a much larger group was involved in less serious behavior. They "may have come intending to just be part of a peaceful protest ," Wray told Congress last March, "but either got swept up in -- in the motive, or emotion, or whatever, engaged in kind of low-level criminal behavior. Trespass, say, on the Capitol grounds, but not breaching the building. [It's] still criminal conduct, still needs to be addressed, but more on the fly, in the moment, opportunistic." (Wray contrasted their behavior with that of what he called "the most serious group -- those who breached the Capitol grounds and engaged in violence against law enforcement.")