Emanuel Jackson biography: 13 things about black US Capitol riot suspect from Capitol Heights, Maryland

Emanuel Jackson is an African-American man from Maryland, United States. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He lives in Capitol Heights, Prince George’s County, Maryland. (a)
2. He believes that globalists and the Chinese have taken over Americans . (b)
3. Wearing a light blue surgical mask, a black hooded sweatshirt and a tan military-style backpack, he went to the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, D.C., USA on January 6, 2021. That day, Donald Trump‘s supporters breached the building while a joint session of Congress was certifying the vote of the Electoral College and affirming Joe Biden‘s victory in the 2020 presidential election. (c)
4. He was one of the first rioters who stormed through the doorway of the Senate wing entrance of the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021. He punched a U.S. Capitol Police officer guarding a Senate wing entrance at 2:48 p.m. that day. (c) (d)
5. Armed with a metal baseball bat, he helped his fellow rioters enter the U.S. Capitol building at around 5:00 p.m. on January 6, 2021 through the West Terrace. (c) (d)
6. Right after the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, he said, “I had a bat. They were pepper spraying people. Then, they got me in the eye.” He explained that he was there to fight for America and not for Trump. (b)
7. He had no criminal history prior to the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. (d)
8. He was 20 years old, recently homeless and living in a transition housing program when he participated in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. (a) (d)
9. On January 18, 2021, he turned himself in at the First District Metropolitan Police Department station in Washington, D.C. and admitted to taking part in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. (c)
10. A Federal Bureau of Investigation agent filed a criminal complaint against him, which was signed by U.S. Magistrate Judge Robin M. Meriweather on January 18, 2021. (c)
11. For his participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, he was charged with assaulting an officer with a deadly weapon, obstruction of an official proceeding, unlawful entry and violent entry. (c)
12. On January 19, 2021, a federal judge ordered him to be held in Central Cell Block in Washington, D.C. (a)
13. Represented by Brandi Harden, he appeared in a hearing in Washington, D.C. before U.S. Magistrate G. Michael Harvey on January 21, 2021. He will be held at a correction treatment facility in a program for younger offenders as Harvey agreed while assistant U.S. attorney Anthony Scarpelli described him as “a spoke in the wheel” of a historic attack on Congress. (d)

(This is a developing story. More details are being added.)

SOURCES:

• a. WUSA9
• b. WJZ-TV
• c. U.S. Department of Justice
• d. Bennington Banner