Daily Beast: “An Arkansas man caught on video beating a Washington, D.C., cop with an American flagpole during the Capitol riots was charged on Thursday. Peter Francis Stager has been charged with obstructing a law enforcement officer for allegedly beating a Metropolitan Police officer who was guarding an entrance of the U.S. Capitol.”
“Prosecutors allege in a criminal complaint that members of the MAGA mob who stormed the building last Wednesday grabbed the officer, dragged him down a flight of stairs, and forced him into a ‘prone position,’ before ‘forcibly and repeatedly’ hitting him in the head and body with ‘various objects.’ Video footage of the violent attack shows Stager with a large group on the stairs of the Capitol building and holding a flagpole. Another video shows Stager hit the officer while he ‘remained prone on the steps’ of the government building. The FBI said they learned of Stager’s identity from a confidential informant who saw the videos on social media.”