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The Justice Department placed two D.C.-based federal prosecutors on leave after they filed court papers calling the Jan. 6 Capitol siege a “riot” perpetrated by a “mob,” three sources familiar with the matter told CBS News on Wednesday. The papers were submitted Tuesday in the case of Taylor Taranto, who was pardoned by President Trump on Capitol riot charges earlier …

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department placed two federal prosecutors on administrative leave after they described the Jan. 6 defendants pardoned by President Donald Trump as a “mob of rioters,” five people familiar with the situation told NBC News. The prosecutors, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, used the phrase in a sentencing memo filed Tuesday in the case of Taylor Taranto, …

Two federal prosecutors in Washington, DC, were placed on leave after describing the January 6, 2021 attack at the US Capitol as stemming from a “mob of rioters” in a sentencing memo Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the matter. The two prosecutors, Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White, were notified of their suspension hours after they submitted a sentencing …

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Washington — Video footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol shows a man who now works as an adviser at the Justice Department shouting at rioters to “kill” law enforcement officers responding to the attack and calling them “the Gestapo.” The footage, from a body camera worn by a Metropolitan Police Department officer, was first published …