No charges for - LEFTIST INSURRECTIONIST - "Late Show" crew arrested on Capitol Hill

Federal prosecutors have declined to bring charges against nine people 
associated with CBS' "Late Show with Stephen Colbert" who were arrested in 
a building in the U.S. Capitol complex last month.

The decision, made by the U.S. attorney's office in Washington, comes 
after prosecutors determined they "cannot move forward" with the 
misdemeanor charges against the nine people arrested June 16 in the 
Longworth House Office Building. The incident followed the third public 
hearing by the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol 
insurrection.

A spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office said it was not probable a 
conviction could be obtained and sustained given that the nine arrested 
had been invited and that their escorts had never asked them to leave the 
building.

Capitol Police have not publicly identified the people who were arrested. 
At the time, Colbert said on his show that several of his staff, including 
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, a puppet that is operated and voiced by 
comedian and writer Robert Smigel, had been detained.

Capitol Police officials said Monday that they respect the decision made 
by the U.S. attorney's office.

Police said the group was arrested on unlawful entry charges "because 
members of the group had been told several times before they entered the 
Congressional buildings that they had to remain with a staff escort inside 
the buildings and they failed to do so."

Colbert previously explained on his show that the group had initially gone 
through the necessary security protocols and spent two days shooting 
interviews with Democratic and Republican members of Congress without 
incident. He said the group was arrested at the end of the second day of 
shooting when they had wrapped the interviews and were doing some "last-
minute puppetry" in a hallway.  

Prosecutors said the group had been invited by congressional staffers and 
had never been asked to leave by the staff members who had invited them. 
The U.S. attorney's office said some people in the group of nine had been 
told by police that they were supposed to have an escort.

"The Office would be required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that 
these invited guests were guilty of the crime of unlawful entry because 
their escort chose to leave them unattended," said Bill Miller, a 
spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office. "We do not believe it is 
probable that the Office would be able to obtain and sustain convictions 
on these charges."

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