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Some Jan. 6 defendants try to use journalism as riot defense

by Michael KunzelmanJacques Billeaud
| April 19, 2021 12:03 AM

The Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January created a trove of self-incriminating evidence, thoroughly documenting their actions and words in videos and social media posts. Now some of the camera-toting people in the crowd are claiming they were only there to record history as journalists, not to join a deadly insurrection.

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