A federal judge is demanding to know why an alleged Capitol rioter caught on camera saying she wanted to find House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and “shoot her in the friggin’ brain” wasn’t charged over that threatening statement.
According to CNN, District Judge Emmet Sullivan asked the federal prosecutors in open court to explain why Dawn Bancroft wasn’t charged for the comments she made in the video about shooting Pelosi, saying: “That’s really troubling. It’s horrible. It’s outrageous… Does it not rise to the level of a threat?”
Lawyers for the Justice Department’s explained that they decided not to charge Bancroft with threatening the House speaker because the statement was made while leaving the Capitol, so it could have been difficult to prove her intent.
Bancroft pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a low-level misdemeanor for carrying out an illegal protest at the Capitol.
