The FBI arrested a Missouri man Thursday, alleging he stole a police officer’s baton, grabbed at an officer’s riot shield, and repeatedly taunted police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Cale Clayton, 41, of Drexel, Missouri, was charged in a criminal complaint (pdf) filed in Washington D.C. with assaulting, resisting, or impeding police; civil disorder; theft of government property; disorderly or disruptive conduct in a Capitol building or grounds; and several other charges. Clayton made an initial appearance Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. According to the criminal complaint, Clayton pushed at an officer’s face shield when police tried to apprehend him at about 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 6. Earlier, he stole a baton after an officer dropped it, and repeatedly grabbed at an officer’s riot shield, prosecutors said. When a Montgomery County Police Department officer attempted to confiscate the baton, “Clayton makes …
Missouri Man Charged With Assaulting, Taunting Police at the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021
March 31, 2022
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