Capitol Riot Trials Continue

WASHINGTON (AP) – A federal jury has begun deliberating in the case against a former Virginia police officer charged with storming the U.S. Capitol to obstruct Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. The jury for the trial of former Rocky Mount police officer Thomas Robertson deliberated for more than four hours Friday without reaching a verdict. They will resume Monday. One of Robertson’s attorneys conceded that he broke the law when he entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The lawyer encouraged jurors to convict him of misdemeanor offenses but urged them to acquit Robertson of felony charges that he armed himself with a weapon and stormed the Capitol to overturn the election results.