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Mick Chan

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Mick Chan is a Newark, New Jersey man who walked into the biggest story of his life with a camera in his hand. THEIR ACCOUNT: Chan told investigators he attended the rally in Washington, climbed the scaffolding on the West Front, and spent roughly thirty minutes inside the building taking photographs. He said he saw what he was doing as journalism. The FBI wrote that it found no evidence supporting the journalism claim. Both of those are in the record. Neither was ever tested in front of a jury on that point. CHARGE ONLY: Mick Chan was charged with four counts, all at the misdemeanor level: entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. FACT: He was arrested September 21, 2021. An information was filed November 12, 2021. His case is 1:21-cr-668 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued clemency covering January 6 cases. What this does not prove: Mick Chan was never charged with a felony. He was never charged with assaulting anyone. He was never accused of carrying a weapon of any kind. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: the public record on Mick Chan is thin, and that matters. Almost everything that exists about him is a charging document and a court docket. No local paper ran a profile. Nobody asked him what he does for a living or who was waiting on him at home in Newark. That is how a lot of these files look, and it is exactly what this archive is here to fix. THE CASE RECORD Name: Mick Chan Case number: 1:21-cr-668 Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Residence at time of arrest: Newark, New Jersey Docket: CourtListener docket 61451465 This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.