US Capitol riots: What happened and who has been punished?
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Hundreds of people protesting against the result of the 2020 US presidential election broke into Congress on 6 January 2021.
Following the biggest police investigation in US history, more than 960 people have been accused of criminal offences.
What happened on 6 January 2021?
US senators were meeting in the Capitol to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election, which Joe Biden had won.
Mr Trump, who was still president at the time, addressed a large crowd of supporters at a "Save America" rally near the White House.
He urged them to march "peacefully" to the Capitol, but also made unsubstantiated claims of massive voter fraud and told them to "fight like hell".
Rioters erected a gallows outside Congress
The crowd numbered between 2,000 and 2,500 people. It contained members of far-right groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Many were carrying weapons.
Hundreds of people forced their way into the building through windows and doors, overwhelming the Capitol police.
Vice President Mike Pence had to be rushed away and US lawmakers hid as rioters swarmed through the building, shouting death threats and forcing their way onto the floor of the Senate.
Capitol Police officers bore the brunt of the attack
It took the police almost four hours to restore order.
President Biden said the rioters had "held a dagger at the throat of America and American democracy".
How big has the police investigation been?
The US Department of Justice says it has mounted the largest police investigation in US history.
It has issued more than 5,000 subpoenas, seized about 2,000 electronic devices and reviewed more than 20,000 hours of video footage.
After almost two years, 964 people have been charged and 465 people charged with federal crimes have entered guilty pleas.
Who has already been convicted?
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, has been found guilty of seditious conspiracy - a crime which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years.
Rhodes, who is a former Army paratrooper and disbarred attorney, was accused of plotting to use force to block Congress from certifying the presidential election.
Stewart Rhodes is the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia
One of his co-defendants, Kelly Meggs, was also found guilty of seditious conspiracy.
Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, a former US Army reservist and alleged Nazi sympathiser, has been given four years in jail after being convicted on five counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding.
Prosecutors said that he often voiced white supremacist and anti-Semitic views, grew an Adolf Hitler-style moustache, and hoped for a second US civil war.
Thomas Webster, 56, an ex-New York City police officer, was sentenced to 10 years on charges including assaulting police at the Capitol and violent and disorderly conduct.
Guy Reffitt from Texas was given 87 months in jail after a jury found him guilty of five felony charges. These included transporting and carrying a firearm on Capitol grounds, interfering with Capitol Police and obstructing an official proceeding.
Court documents say Guy Reffitt was seen on video on the west front of the US Capitol on 6 January
Reffitt was also convicted of obstructing justice, for threatening his daughter and son should they turn him in to the FBI.
Jacob Chansley, the so-called QAnon Shaman who broke into Congress dressed in a fur cloak and a horned helmet, pleaded guilty at his trial and is serving 41 months.
The "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley has been sent to jail for over three years