The former Boston cop accused of assaulting a U.S. Capitol police officer in the course of the Jan. 6 riot was arraigned in a D.C. court docket on Thursday after he was arrested final month.
Joseph Fisher, 52, of Plymouth, is going through federal prices after he allegedly entered the Capitol on Jan. 6, pushed a chair right into a Capitol police officer, and “engaged in a physical altercation” with the officer.
Fisher, a former Boston police officer, had his preliminary look in D.C. federal court docket on Thursday. He was launched after agreeing to sure situations, together with taking part in a psychological well being remedy program and present process drug testing.
He’s not allowed to have a firearm, however that situation doesn’t apply to his spouse who’s a Boston cop.
Also, he’s required to report any incidents with regulation enforcement, however the feds mentioned the previous cop doesn’t need to report his social interactions with mates who’re officers.
“I do,” Fisher mentioned about following the discharge situations.
A court-appointed counsel was accredited to characterize Fisher after the choose reviewed his monetary data.
The Capitol rioters who backed former President Donald Trump disrupted a session of Congress because the senators and representatives counted the electoral votes for the 2020 presidential election. The Capitol breach turned lethal.
The FBI final month arrested Fisher at his Plymouth residence on felony and misdemeanor prices, together with assaulting a regulation enforcement officer and civil dysfunction in the course of the breach of the Capitol.
Fisher allegedly entered the U.S. Capitol at 2:24 p.m. on Jan. 6 by way of the Senate Wing Door on the North facet of the U.S. Capitol. Then about quarter-hour later, Fisher was within the Capitol Visitor Center’s Orientation Lobby, the place an altercation began between a Capitol police officer and different rioters.
“As a U.S. Capitol Police Officer pursued a rioter who had deployed pepper spray, Fisher pushed a chair into the Capitol Police Officer,” the feds wrote. “Fisher then engaged in a physical altercation with the Capitol Police Officer. Shortly afterwards, Fisher exited the U.S. Capitol Building.”
Fisher has been charged in a D.C. legal criticism with the felony offenses of assaulting, resisting, or impeding sure officers, and obstruction of regulation enforcement throughout a civil dysfunction.
He’s going through the misdemeanor offenses of: getting into and remaining in a restricted constructing or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted constructing or grounds, partaking in bodily violence in a restricted constructing or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol constructing, acts of bodily violence the Capitol grounds or constructing, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol constructing.
The subsequent date in his case is June 13.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”