A January 6 rioter who had been pardoned by president Trump has already been arrested, just 24 hours after his release.PauseMute
In one of Trump’s first big moves as president, he decided to pardon around 1500 convicts who were arrested after rioting the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, where they took a police officer hostage, 140 police officers were injured and many people died as a result of the mob.
As of January 21, Daniel Charles Ball who had been convicted of violence on January 6 – has been arrested on a new charge.
The 39-year-old was arrested in connection with a firearm offence – a charge that was unrelated to the riots as the indictment claimed he had the firearm in May 2023.
He had previously been convicted between 2017 and 2021 in relation to a domestic violence charge, specifically battery by strangulation.
In 2021, he was arrested for resisting arrest and violence as well as battery of a police officer.
A judge said, of his January 6 crimes; ‘his charges are among the most severe of any related to the January 6 events’, adding that he ‘exhibited violent behavior’.
The prosecutor claimed that the 39-year-old had brought an explosive device to the riot and threw it into a tunnel, causing law enforcement to suffer hearing issues for months after the attack.
He is also alleged to have taken a plank of wood from a shutter after entering the government building for around two minutes. When faced with his 12 charges, including violence with a deadly weapon, carrying an explosive, and assaulting or impeding law enforcement officers with a deadly weapon – he pleaded not guilty.
A fellow rioter, 71-year-old Pamela Hemphill refused the pardon for her role in the riots after pleading guilty.
She explained online that she refused the pardon as “We were wrong that day. We broke the law – there should be no pardons.”
“I pleaded guilty because I was guilty.
“Accepting a pardon would only contribute to their gaslighting and false narrative.”
She noted that in accepting the pardons, it would be an ‘insult the Capitol police officers, the rule of law, and, of course, our nation’.
