{"id":115884,"date":"2021-03-03T12:14:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T04:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115884"},"modified":"2021-03-03T12:14:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T04:14:20","slug":"fbi-chief-says-jan-6-capitol-riot-is-domestic-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115884","title":{"rendered":"FBI chief says Jan 6 Capitol riot is domestic terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2021-03\/03\/139778960_16147226565381n.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Supporters of former US President Donald Trump gathering in front of the Capitol building in Washington on Jan 6<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WASHINGTON, March 3 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said that the law enforcement agency classifies the deadly Jan 6 Capitol riot by former President Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters as domestic terrorism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;That attack, that siege, was criminal behavior, plain and simple, and it&#8217;s behavior that we, the FBI, view as domestic terrorism,&#8221; Wray said at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wray said the rioters came from &#8220;a variety of backgrounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The attackers on Jan 6 included a number &#8211; and the number keeps growing as we build out our investigations &#8211; of what we would call militia violent extremism. And we have had some already arrested who we would put in the category of racially motivated violent extremism, white as well,&#8221; said Wray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So far at least 280 people have been arrested with more than 300 charged in the wake of the Jan 6 attack which interrupted Congress&#8217; electoral vote count of the presidential election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Five people died in the attack, including a Capitol police officer.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supporters of former US President Donald Trump gathering in front of the Capitol building in Washington on Jan 6 WASHINGTON, March 3 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Christopher Wray, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said that the law enforcement agency classifies the deadly Jan 6 Capitol riot by former President Donald Trump&#8217;s supporters as domestic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115884"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}