The Department of Justice and the FBI has given an on the violence at the US Capitol last week.

 
Steven D’Antuono, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Washington DC office, said that they had received some 100,000 pieces of digital evidence from the public to work through.

 
He and the US Attorney for the District of Washington, Michael Sherwin, said ,  the US authority have opened more than 160 case files and have charged 70 people so far.
 

D’Antuono described this as the “tip of the iceberg” with the number of investigations and charges expected to go into the hundreds.