A Pennsylvania man was convicted today of multiple felony and misdemeanour offences, including assaulting law enforcement with a deadly or dangerous weapon during the January 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.
His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election.
Terry L. Allen, 65, of Spring Mills, Pennsylvania, was found guilty by U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta of felony charges of civil disorder, assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers with a deadly or dangerous weapon, entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon, and engaging in physical violence in a restrict building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon.
In addition to the felonies, Allen was found guilty of two misdemeanour offences, including disorderly conduct in a Capitol building and an act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings.
Judge Mehta will sentence Allen on November 14, 2024.
According to court documents and evidence presented during the trial, on Jan. 6, 2021, Allen was among a crowd of rioters who breached the western perimeter of the U.S. Capitol grounds. Video footage taken that day depicts Allen on the West Plaza at approximately 12:58 p.m., carrying a black and red flag on a wooden flagpole approximately five feet long.
Video evidence shows Allen then shoving and physically assaulting law enforcement officers on the West Plaza by using his wooden flagpole as a lance, driving it into officers in a stabbing motion.
Later, at approximately 1:56 p.m., Allen is seen on a body-worn camera approaching the police line and holding what appears to be a black metallic pole in one hand and a flagpole in the other. Court documents say that officers then deployed pepper spray against Allen and other rioters in the crowd. Allen responded by throwing a black metallic pole at the officers standing less than ten feet away.
The FBI arrested Allen on July 6, 2023, in Pennsylvania.
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