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Federal prosecutors "no papered" simple assault and destruction of property charges against Michelle "Micki" Witthoeft, the mother Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt.

Micki Witthoeft, 58, was arrested on Tuesday night and charged with assault and destruction of property after a scuffle with a counter-protester during their march for Ashli Babbitt's memory.

Aaron Babbitt claimed his wife, Ashli, would still be alive today and never would have entered the Capitol during the riot last year if he had been there to protect her.

Editor's note: This is the third of a three-part series on the events leading up to, the day of, and after the riot on Jan. 6 where a group of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to disrupt the Senate's confirmation that Joe Biden won the November election.

Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick Brian Sicknick was an officer with the Capitol Police who died Thursday evening after he “was injured while physically engaging with protesters,” the USCP said in a statement announcing his death. The USCP said he had “returned to his division office and collapsed” and died from his injuries after being transported to an area hospital. He is only the fourth USCP officer to die in the line of duty since the department’s founding in 1828. The exact circumstances that led to Sicknick’s death are not readily a...