DOJ Adds Charges Against Brothers Who Said They Shielded Rosanne Boyland on Jan. 6

Aaron James and Isaac Westbury face a combined 17 criminal counts along with two other brothers and their stepfather for their actions on Jan. 6, 2021.

Overhead video shows Isaac Westbury and his brother Aaron James holding shields as police spray pepper gel toward where Rosanne Boyland was receiving CPR on U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. Christopher Chern via Storyful/Graphic by The Epoch Times

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a superseding indictment with additional charges against two Minnesota brothers who said they acted to protect dying protester Rosanne Boyland from police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

The Jan. 12 superseding indictment charges Aaron James, 37, of Lindstrom, Minnesota, with nine criminal counts, an increase of one charge from the initial indictment filed against him on Sept. 29, 2021.