January 27, 2025 - WASHINGTON – Last week, Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) took to the House floor to condemn President Donald Trump’s pardons of over 1,5000 violent perpetrators who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

Luke Russell Coffee, 44, of Dallas retrieved a crutch from the area at the top of the stairs to the Lower Terrace. He turned and approached the line of officers with the crutch held over his head. Then he lowered the crutch to waist-high and proceeded to push the crutch into the line of police.

A body-worn camera by an MPD officer captured images of Coffee as he made physical contact with another officer. After being forced back by police, Coffee aggressively charged at an officer with the crutch, using it as a blunt weapon while pointing it at the officer’s chest and head. 

Source: DOJ

Source: Congressman Jim Costa