Judge compares jail treatment of press dinner gunman to US Capitol rioters

A federal magistrate judge compared the Department of Corrections’ treatment of the man accused of opening fire at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner to that of January 6, 2021, Capitol riot defendants during a Monday hearing over the man’s jail conditions. Attorneys for Cole Tomas Allen said in court filings that Allen was unfairly placed on suicide watch and restrictive housing inside the Washington, DC, jail where he is being held pretrial. Allen, who is from California, allegedly rushed through a security checkpoint armed with a shotgun during the April 26 dinner where the president and top administration officials were...