Peter Francis Stager, a truck driver from Arkansas, was recognized in a video hitting a Metropolitan Police Department officer three times with a flagpole “with a United States flag affixed to it,” according to a warrant. Stager, along with others, dragged the officer down the Capitol steps, forced him into “a prone position on the stairs and proceeded to forcibly and repeatedly strike B.M. [the officer] in the head and body with various objects,” the warrant reads.
Stager in February entered a guilty plea to a felony charge of assaulting police with a dangerous weapon, CBS reported.
