
DOJ Seeks 4 Months in Prison for Woman Severely Beaten by DC Police on Jan. 6
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking a four-month prison term for Victoria Charity White, the Minnesota woman who was beaten in the head, neck, and face nearly 40 times by Metropolitan Police Department officers on Jan. 6, 2021. A DOJ sentencing memorandum (pdf) filed with U.S. District Judge John Bates glosses over the severe beating Ms. White endured inside the Lower West Terrace tunnel, claiming instead that she should have never entered the tunnel in the first place. “White continued to forcefully push through the crowd with the unmistakable objective of entering the violent fray in the tunnel,” prosecutors wrote in the 26-page document. “As she moved towards her goal, she hoisted another rioter up and over the crowd—cheering as he swung himself from the tunnel’s archway and used his feet to kick at the officers inside.”...
