Former Virginia Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Jan. 6 Conspiracy Charge

A former Virginia police officer who took a selfie-style photo of his middle-finger salute along with a co-worker inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 pleaded guilty to a felony conspiracy charge on Friday. Jacob Fracker, 30, formerly with the Rocky Mount Police Department, took a plea deal under which several other charges will be dismissed at sentencing. Fracker admitted to conspiring with co-defendant Thomas Robertson to obstruct the counting of Electoral College votes at the Capitol on Jan. 6. “In his plea, Fracker admitted that by the time he and Robertson entered the Capitol, they had agreed to attempt to impede, stop, or delay the proceedings going on before Congress and that they aided, assisted, encouraged, and facilitated each other in the conduct,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in a statement. Fracker and Robertson were both Rocky Mount police officers when they traveled to Washington D.C. to attend …