Jury Trial Continues for January 6 Defendant & Police Officer Thomas Robertson
The Trial continues...
April 7, 2022 — Now comes a jury trial in the case of USA vs. Thomas Robertson, et al in relation to the government’s sprawling January 6 Capitol Breach investigation. The government filed their initial Criminal Complaint against Mr. Robertson, a Rocky Mountain police officer on January 12, 2021 which you can read here:
The initial complaint was against Thomas Robertson and his fellow officer Jacob Fracker who attended the rally with him. Mr. Fracker would later request that the government separate the cases so he could take a plea deal. The government initially refused a plea deal, then said they had to take one together, then finally agreed to Mr. Fracker’s request.
The initial complaint stated that according to information obtained by the FBI, shortly after 2:00 pm on January 6, 2021 the defendants Thomas Robertson and Jacob Fracker were photographed in the Capitol building making an “obscene” statement in front of the John Stark statue. At the time, they were off duty from their jobs as police officers for the Rocky Mountain police, in Virginia.
“In social media posts, Defendant Robertson is quoted as saying, ‘CNN and the Left are just mad because we actually attacked the government who is the problem and not some random small business … The right IN ONE DAY took the f****** U.S. Capitol. Keep poking us.’ He also stated he was ‘proud’ of the photo in an Instagram post that was shared to Facebook, because he was ‘willing to put skin in the game.‘”
The complaint goes on to state that Robertson talked to Newsweek and admitted to sharing the posts with his fellow officers. He also reportedly said “he broke no laws, did not know about the violence, and had been escorted in by the Capitol Police.”