Judge compares jail treatment of press-dinner gunman to Capitol riot detainees

At a Monday hearing, U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui criticized the DC jail’s handling of Cole Tomas Allen, the suspect in the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, saying his suicide watch and heavy restraints were worse than how January 6 defendants were treated; he apologized to Allen and ordered the jail to inform him of housing decisions as Allen awaits pretrial charges including attempted assassination of the president.