District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine is suing members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to recoup millions of dollars the city spent defending the U.S. Capitol during the January 6 attacks, nearly a year after the city was stormed by a Trump-supporting mob. 

CNN reported Racine is accusing 31 extremists of “conspiring to terrorize the District” in a “coordinated act of domestic terrorism.” In addition to the millions of dollars spent dispatching Metropolitan Police Department officers to the Capitol, he wants the court to hold the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys liable for the money spent treating injured officers and paying for their medical leave in the months following the attack. 

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“The defendants, as you know, were not tourists, nor were they acting patriotically,” said Racine, per CNN. “They were vigilantes, members of a mob, insurrectionists who sought to crush our country’s freedoms.” 

According to CBS News, three officers were killed and over 150 were injured in the January 6 attacks, including 86 Capitol police officers and 65 members of the Metropolitan Police Department. In June, at least 17 police officers were still out of work as a result of their injuries. 

Members of Congress and police have also filed lawsuits against the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, per NPR, accusing the groups of violating the 1871 Ku Klux Klan Act, which was passed after the Civil War to protect Black citizens from violence and intimidation. 

Racine’s lawsuit details how members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys allegedly created a plot for violence and recruited members to travel to Capitol Hill after performing training and giving firearms and tactical gear out, per CNN. 

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“Our intent, as we indicated, is to hold these violent mobsters and these violent hate groups accountable, and to get every penny of damage that we can,” Racine said, per NPR. “If it so happens that we bankrupt them, then that’s a good day. When hate is dispatched and eliminated, that’s a good day.”