Defense attorneys are seeking to identify and investigate 80 “suspicious actors” and material witnesses, some of whom allegedly ran an entrapment operation against the Oath Keepers on Jan. 6, 2021, and committed crimes including the removal of security fencing, breaching police lines, attacking officers, and inciting crowds to storm into the U.S. Capitol.
In a motion (pdf) and supplement (pdf) filed after 11 p.m. on May 5 in federal court in Washington, attorney Brad Geyer listed 80 people, some of whom he said could be government agents or provocateurs. The people are seen in video footage operating in a coordinated fashion across the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, the attorney alleged.
