UPDATE 9/3: Interesting headline. Don't wear horns to a riot is what I think it suggests.
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UPDATE 6/12: Now I can stop updating. I was missing plenty. NPR has them all:
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UPDATE 6/2/21: What's happening with the arrest cases
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BTW, the certification was completed.Washington, D.C., officials say four people have died, including one in a shooting inside the U.S. Capitol, and more than a dozen police officers were injured after a mob of supporters of President Trump stormed the nation's legislative building, temporarily shutting down a vote to certify his successor's win.
NPR
I'd like to know how they got that onto Capitol grounds when the US Capitol has become one of the most fortified place on the planet.Police arrested 70 people on charges related to unrest from Wednesday through 7 a.m. Thursday, Washington's Metropolitan Police Department said. Most of those arrests were for violating curfew, with many also facing charges of unlawful entry.
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The scenes of chaos Wednesday afternoon as a Trump rally devolved into unrest and insurrection left the country shaken and the nation's capital on alert.
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In an hours-long siege, the rioters went on to tear through the building, breaking windows, attacking police and ransacking lawmakers' offices. Lawmakers, staffers, reporters and other Capitol building workers were forced into hiding while heavily armed police and FBI agents rallied a response.
D.C. officials said one woman was shot by a Capitol Police officer amid the chaos. Three others died after separate medical emergencies.
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D.C. Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee [...] reported 14 police officers were injured, one seriously "after he was pulled into a crowd and assaulted." Two officers remain hospitalized as of late Wednesday, he said.
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The violence wasn't directed solely at the U.S. Capitol building. Police also responded to reports of suspicious packages discovered on Capitol grounds and in other areas of the city. Two pipe bombs left at the Republican National Committee and the Democratic National Committee were discovered by police and safely detonated, police said.
In a car on Capitol grounds, law enforcement found a cooler full of gasoline bombs and a long gun, Contee told reporters.
Another mystery.The Department of Justice dispatched "hundreds of federal law enforcement officers and agents" to assist the Capitol Police, Rosen said.
Yet, there were few arrests in relation to the scope of the unrest as of Wednesday night, despite clear evidence on video of hundreds of rioters gaining access to the Capitol and damaging government property.
Most of the arrests were related to curfew violations, Contee said.
Interesting.The city's arrest sheet lists only one person as being arrested on a felony charge of violating the Riot Act: Joshua Pruitt, 39, of Washington, D.C. He was taken into custody at the Capitol building, police said.
Again, how did they get those through when civilians' guns are not allowed in DC?At least four people were arrested for carrying a pistol without a license and having a large capacity ammunition feeding device, including one instance of possessing a firearm on Capitol grounds.
They HAD all those people, but they politely escorted them from the Capitol!D.C. police will be releasing information later Thursday asking the public's help identifying individuals who breached the Capitol so that they "can be held accountable," he said.
Let's hope the investigation extends to the conduct of those officers.Videos taken of the chaos appeared to show, at best, an unprepared police force easily overrun by rioters or, at worst, one that appeared to acquiesce to the mob. Unverified videos shared on social media showed a police officer taking selfies with some rioters who entered the Capitol and another appeared to show officers moving barricades to allow a large crowd of people to approach the building.
Well, if officers opened the barricades, that's a pretty good clue.A review will begin immediately to determine how security at the Capitol was compromised, Bowser said.
Head over to the White House. I think you'll find at least one.California Democrat Rep. Zoe Lofgren, chairwoman of the House Administration Committee, said the breach "raises grave security concerns." She said her committee would work with bipartisan House and Senate leadership to address concerns and review the response in the coming days.
The FBI has set up a tip line website for information tied to the riots. The agency said it's seeking information to "assist in identifying individuals who are actively instigating violence in Washington, D.C."
And this guy should be immediately shitcanned and made ineligible to ever run for public office of any kind for the rest of his life.
That's funny. He live-streamed himself.A West Virginia Republican lawmaker who livestreamed as he joined the large, violent insurrection of Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol in Washington, DC, on Wednesday said he was merely there as "an independent member of the media" and never confronted authorities.
Buzzfeed
His idiotic film is linked in this article.Derrick Evans, a newly elected member of West Virginia's House of Delegates, was livestreaming on Facebook as he and other protesters muscled their way through the doors of one entrance carrying Trump flags and signs. The video shows the Republican lawmaker, clad in a helmet and military-style gear, cheering as those ahead of him rip back the door amid the attempted coup, in which one woman was shot and killed.
"We're in, we're in, we're in, let's go, keep it moving, baby!" he cheers as the wall of insurrectionists inch forward through the doors. Others can be heard yelling, "Push! Push!" as the group flooded past two Capitol Police officers.
Evans later deleted the video from his Facebook page, but it was reuploaded onto several other social media platforms.
In the video, Evans identifies himself by shouting, "Derrick Evans is in the Capitol!" and turning the camera on his face several times. Once inside, he whoops and shouts, “Patriots inside, baby!” as well as "U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!"
That's how the rabid religious right got started.According to his Facebook page, Evans helped organize two charter buses full of largely maskless "patriots from WV, KY, and Ohio" who headed to Washington, DC, on Tuesday evening as part of a #StopTheSteal coalition.
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Throughout his campaign, Evans also shared on his Facebook page false claims that thousands of dead people had voted in the presidential election, conspiracy theories about the COVID-19 vaccine, condemnations of the Black Lives Matter movement, and posts advocating for Trump supporters to bear arms. On Jan. 1, he posted a photo of a pile of guns and ammo spelling out the words "Happy New Year.
Evans is also a well-known anti-abortion activist who garnered a following by harassing people at West Virginia clinics. In summer 2019, one woman filed a restraining order against him, which he reportedly violated several times."
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The 34-year-old, who was sworn into office last month, is part of a new wave of Trump loyalists who ran as Republicans but abhor the establishment and instead identify as members of a "patriot" movement. Across the US, they were elected to school boards, state legislators, and even Congress, where they have helped spread Trump's baseless conspiracies about election fraud and vowed to fight to keep him in office.
So do it.Evans' participation in the Capitol storming drew strong rebukes from West Virginia leaders, including Roger Hanshaw, the Republican speaker of the House. While he said he had not yet spoken to Evans, Hanshaw said in a statement that the new lawmaker "will need to answer to his constituents and colleagues regarding his involvement in what has occurred today.
“While free speech and peaceful protests are a core value of American society, storming government buildings and participating in a violent intentional disruption of one of our nation’s most fundamental political institutions is a crime that should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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Final death toll: 5. One, a Capitol police officer who was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher.
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Two off-duty police officers in Virginia have been charged in connection to the deadly breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Rocky Mount Police officers Jacob Fracker and Thomas Robertson were arrested Wednesday, after they were photographed inside the Capitol making an obscene gesture in front of the John Stark [statue], the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia announced.
The Hill
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo on Wednesday said that an off-duty officer with the department participated in last week’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol and that the man has been placed on administrative leave.
“I can’t tell you the anger I feel at the thought of a police officer and other police officers thinking they get to go storm the Capitol or members of the military or the Secret Service,” Acevedo said in a press briefing Wednesday, according to a Houston-area NBC affiliate.
The Hill
From the jail library.
Prosecutors and federal agents have begun bringing more serious charges tied to violence at the Capitol, including against a retired firefighter, Robert Sanford, that he hurled a fire extinguisher at the head of one police officer and another, Peter Stager, accused of beating a different officer with a pole bearing an American flag.
Guardian
Update on Robert Sanford 2/8:
All the major nuts were there.
He's good and baked now.
Update on this case:
At least two are members of the Proud Boys, a group that Canada listed as a terrorist group on the same day one of them was arrested here. The Proud Boys' founder is Canadian.
According to a release from the Department on Justice (DOJ), John Subleski, 32, and Adam Turner, 35, were both arrested on Thursday by the Louisville Division of the FBI.
Subleski is charged with "using a facility of interstate commerce" to incite a riot and "committing an act of violence in furtherance of a riot." According to a criminal complaint referenced by the FBI in the press release, in concert with the riots that occurred at the U.S. Capitol on Jan, 6, Subleski incited a riot in Louisville, Ky., communicating via social media that it was “Time to storm LMPD.”
Subleski's group is also accused of pointing firearms at the driver of a vehicle, blocking intersections and barricading a number of roads. The complaint alleges that later in the evening, the man is seen on video firing his weapon at a vehicle that drove through the group's barricades. He then fled the scene.
The Hill
More on this case.
Richard Michetti texted his ex during the Capitol riot to say she was "a moron" if she didn't believe the election was stolen. She turned him in.[...]
Prosecutors listed a series of texts that Michetti sent his ex as he made his way to the U.S. Capitol.
Around 7:15 p.m. the night before the riot, he wrote, "I just got to dc I'll call when I get off."
The woman told law enforcement that Michetti was in Washington on January 6 because he believed the election was stolen from then-President Donald Trump.
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"This is our country do you think we live like kings because no one sacrificed anything?" Michetti said in texts to his ex. "...the vote was fraud and trump won but they won't audit the votes. We are patriots we are not revolutionaries the other side is revolutionaries they want to destroy this country and they say it openly."
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In his texts, prosectors say, Michetti detailed what he was doing on January 6, sending his ex videos of rioters yelling inside the Capitol building.
"...it's going down here we stormed the building they held us back with spray and teargas and paintballs," he wrote. "Gotta stop the vote it's fraud this is our country."
MSN
UPDATE on this arrest:
And yet, he was there.A Texas man who joined a mob at the Capitol on Jan. 6 told two rioters he had set up a security company as a front to access law enforcement-grade weaponry that could be used to "take back our country," according to private, encrypted messages revealed Saturday by prosecutors.
Guy Reffitt, who drove from Texas to Washington, D.C., also said in recorded conversations that he and others were carrying firearms during the siege of the Capitol. He also encouraged his two associates to join the "Texas Three Percenters" militia, according to the messages posted to Telegram.
"I have a new security business to circumvent the 2nd Amendment issue," Reffitt told the pair. "Website is under construction but business is licensed with Secretary of State, Texas DPS, and Texas Board of Private Security. We can get ammo and weapons available to law enforcement. We have an interior certified training officer. Join us and lets take back our country. The fight has only just begun."
Prosecutors described the arrangement in an effort to persuade a judge that Reffitt is too dangerous to be released before his trial on charges related to the Capitol assault. Reffitt is a self-described Three Percenter, which prosecutors describe as an ideology rooted in the notion that the current government is the equivalent of British oppressors and can be overthrown by armed militias.
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They noted that Reffitt misled the FBI about his company — TTP Security, LLC — telling them it had no connection to the Texas Three Percenters. Rather, he said, it stood for "Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures."
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They also revealed that his behavior before Jan. 6 had so alarmed his family that at least one member reported him to the FBI, worrying he was "going to do some serious damage" to Congress.
Politico
[W]hen Reffitt returned from D.C. on Jan. 8, a family member covertly recorded his conversations and shared them with law enforcement.
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In earlier filings, prosecutors revealed that Reffitt's son and daughter spoke to law enforcement. His son, in particular, said he believed his father had physically threatened him over any cooperation with the FBI. In Saturday's filing, prosecutors revealed Reffitt's son has since "taken substantial steps to secure his safety, including, among other things, relocating from his family’s home to an undisclosed location."
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Reffitt charged the Capitol toward the front of the mob that ultimately overtook it, they say, "carrying his pistol and flexi-cuffs, and wearing body armor and a helmet mounted with a video camera."
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"I did bring a weapon on property that we own. Federal grounds or not," he said. "The law is written, but it doesn’t mean it’s right law. The people that were around me were all carrying, too."
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In recorded conversation with his family, Reffitt also indicated that his participation in the Jan. 6 events was "only the preface of the book." "It’s just a notification of what you’re going to read in the future," he said.
F.B.I. agents have arrested two organizers for the Proud Boys in Philadelphia and North Carolina, and prosecutors filed new charges against two other prominent members of the far-right group in Florida and Washington State as federal authorities continued their crackdown on its leadership ranks, three law enforcement officials said on Wednesday.
With the new conspiracy indictment, prosecutors have now brought charges against a total of 13 people identified in court papers as members of the Proud Boys. Federal investigators have described the group, which appeared in force in Washington on Jan. 6, as one of the chief instigators of the riot at the Capitol that left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer.
In the indictment, prosecutors accused Charles Donohoe, a Proud Boys leader from North Carolina, and Zach Rehl, the president of the group’s chapter in Philadelphia, of conspiring to interfere with law enforcement officers at the Capitol and obstruct the certification of President Biden’s electoral victory. Two other high-ranking Proud Boys who were already facing similar charges — Ethan Nordean of Auburn, Wash., and Joseph Biggs of Ormond Beach, Fla. — were also implicated as part of the conspiracy.
NYT
At least 19 leaders, members or associates of the neo-fascist Proud Boys have been charged in federal court with offenses related to the 6 January riot, which resulted in five deaths.
The latest indictment suggests the Proud Boys deployed a much larger contingent in Washington, with more than 60 users “participating in” an encrypted messaging channel for group members created a day before.
The Proud Boys abandoned an earlier channel and created the new Boots on the Ground channel after police arrested the group’s leader, Enrique Tarrio, in Washington. Tarrio was arrested on 4 January and charged with vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic Black church during a protest in December. He was ordered to stay out of the District of Columbia.
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All four defendants are charged with conspiring to impede certification of the electoral college vote. Other charges in the indictment include obstruction of an official proceeding, obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder and disorderly conduct.
Guardian
List by name:
Bennett-Richard,
Evans-Derrick,
Munchel-Eric,
Meredith-Cleveland,
Chansley-Jacob,
Brock-Larry Jr,
Seefried-Kevin,
Priola-Christine,
Cudd-Jenny,
Stager-Peter,
Sanford-Robert,
Baker-Daniel,
Griffin-Couey,
Gionet-Tim,
Bingert-Craig,
Williams-Riley,
Fee-Thomas,
Bancroft-Dawn,
Santos-Smith-Diana,
Bisignano-Gina,
Griffin-Couy,
Baker-Stephen Maury,
Grayson-Kenneth,
Williams-Troy Dylan,
Nordean-Ethan (Proud Boys),
DeCarlo-Nicholas,
Ochs-Nicholas,
Camargo-Samuel,
Zink-Ryan,
Ryan-Jenna,
Schwab-Katherine,
Hyland-Jason,
Merry-William Jr,
Cua-Joseph,
Caldwell-Edward,
Proud Boys: William Chrestman, Louis Enrique Colon and Christopher Kuehne were taken into custody near Kansas City, Missouri, and Cory and Felicia Konold, brother and sister, were arrested in Arizona,
Subleski-John,
Turner-Adam,
Lopatic-Michael,
Bozell-Brent IV,
Secor-Christian,
Sullivan-John,
Gennaro-John,
Fischer-Joseph,
Kaye-Suzanne Ellen,
Lentz-Nicholes,
Watkins-Jessica,
Webster-Thomas,
Michetti-Richard,
Coffee-Luke.
Klein-Federico,
Minuta-Roberto,
Sturgeon-Isaac,
James-Joshua,
Andries-John,
Adams-Howard,
Reffitt-Guy,
Khater-Julian,
Tanios-George,
Proud Boys: Zach Rehl, Charles Donohoe, Joseph Biggs,
Heinl--Jennifer,
Hale-Cusanelli-Timothy,
Shaffer-Jon,
Randolph-Stephen,
Greene-Matthew (Proud Boys)
Thomas-Kenneth,
Oath Keepers: Hackett-Joseph, Dolan-Jason, Isaacs-William,
Price-Shawn
This is not an exhaustive list.
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