DOJ: Jan. 6 rioters committed 1,000 or more assaults on officers

Police officers were assaulted upwards of 1,000 times during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, the Department of Justice estimated in a new court filing detailing the voluminous evidence being scoured.

That number and others appear in a memorandum entered Wednesday in federal court in D.C., where the ...