Current:Home > MarketsIndiana man pleads guilty to assaulting police with baton and makeshift weapons during Capitol riot -CapitalTrack
Indiana man pleads guilty to assaulting police with baton and makeshift weapons during Capitol riot
View
Date:2025-04-12 08:26:28
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Indiana man pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges that he used a metal baton, a lamp and other makeshift weapons to assault police officers who were protecting the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Donald Trump supporters.
Curtis Logan Tate, 32, struck at least two officers with the baton that he brought to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, hitting one in the hand and the other repeatedly on the helmet.
Tate also threw a broken table leg, a floor lamp, a speaker box and a shoe at officers guarding a tunnel entrance on the Capitol’s Lower West Terrace. He struck a third officer’s arm and damaged a window when he threw the speaker box.
Tate pleaded guilty to three felony counts of assaulting, resisting or impeding police using a deadly or dangerous weapon, court records show.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C., is scheduled to sentence Tate on July 9. Sentencing guidelines call for Tate to receive a term of imprisonment ranging from five years and three months to six years and six months, although the judge isn’t bound by that recommendation.
Tate lived in Jeffersonville, Indiana — near Louisville, Kentucky — when he and a friend traveled to Washington to attend then-President Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally near the White House on Jan. 6. He posted several videos on Instagram as he stormed the Capitol with other rioters.
Tate was arrested in August 2023 in Wilmington, North Carolina. A federal magistrate judge ordered him to remain jailed until his case is resolved.
In March 2023, USA Today interviewed Tate for a story about Capitol rioters who had been identified by online sleuths but not yet arrested. Tate acknowledged that he was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, but he denied assaulting anyone.
“I would never hurt an officer. I come from a military background, I’m very respectful of our military and police,” he told the newspaper.
A defense attorney who represented Tate at Thursday’s hearing didn’t immediately respond to an email and telephone call seeking comment.
More than 1,300 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Over 750 of them have pleaded guilty. Nearly 200 more have been convicted after trials decided by a judge or jury. More than 800 have been sentenced, with roughly two-thirds receiving a term of imprisonment ranging from a few days to 22 years.
veryGood! (1918)
Related
- US appeals court rejects Nasdaq’s diversity rules for company boards
- Teen allegedly shoots his mom, then kills 2 police officers in Canada
- Where You’ve Seen the Cast of Daisy Jones & the Six Before
- At least 9 killed after powerful earthquake rocks Pakistan and Afghanistan
- Taylor Swift Eras Archive site launches on singer's 35th birthday. What is it?
- Transcript: Rikki Klieman, Bill Bratton and Robert Costa Face the Nation panel, March 26, 2023
- State Department issues warning about counterfeit pills sold in Mexican pharmacies
- Transcript: John Kirby on Face the Nation, March 26, 2023
- Head of the Federal Aviation Administration to resign, allowing Trump to pick his successor
- North Korea says latest missile test was nuclear counterstrike simulation
Ranking
- Who are the most valuable sports franchises? Forbes releases new list of top 50 teams
- See How Tom Sandoval Reacted to Tom Schwartz's Previous Joke About Cast Throuple
- Lululemon Belt Bag Restock: Shop Before They Sell Out... Again
- China's Xi to visit Putin in Moscow as Beijing seeks larger global role
- Nearly 400 USAID contract employees laid off in wake of Trump's 'stop work' order
- Art repatriation: Fighting traffickers in an illicit global trade
- Vanderpump Rules' Raquel Leviss Tried Making Out With Tom Schwartz Before Infamous Mexico Kiss
- Dua Lipa Holds Hands With Filmmaker Romain Gavras During Paris Outing
Recommendation
South Korea's acting president moves to reassure allies, calm markets after Yoon impeachment
Russia to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, on Ukraine's northern border, Putin says
London's Metropolitan Police plagued by institutional racism, misogyny and homophobia, investigation finds
King Charles III Finally Invites Prince Harry, Meghan Markle to Coronation—But They're a TBD
The White House is cracking down on overdraft fees
Heather Rae El Moussa Teases Her Future on Selling Sunset
How Riley Keough's Husband Ben Smith-Petersen Played a Role in Daisy Jones and The Six
David and Victoria Beckham's Daughter Harper Is All Grown Up in Rare Family Photo