A former Chapel Hill businessman has been arrested and charged with assaulting a U.S. Capitol police officer who later died after the January 6 riot. U.S. officials arrested Julian Khater — the former co-owner of Frutta Bowls in Chapel Hill — and George Tanios and charged the pair with assaulting Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick with bear spray during the riot, but authorities do not know yet whether it caused the officer’s death. According to WRAL, Khater co-owned and managed the Frutta Bowls location from January 2018 to January 2019, before moving to a different franchise of the chain in State College, Pennsylvania. Khater is the man in a video obtained by the FBI that showed him spraying Sicknick and others with bear spray, according to court papers. Sicknick died after defending the Capitol against the mob that stormed the building on January 6, but the final cause of his death has not been determined. #capitolriots #capitol #chapelhillnc