Breach of the Capitol: Consequences, Repercussions & Reactions

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A California man charged with joining anti-government extremists in rioting at the U.S. Capitol told the IRS last year that he formed a charity called the American Phoenix Project to defend “human and civil rights” and educate the public about vaccines.

Unfortunately for him, he used his nonprofit to support Trump with stories of election fraud and suggested executing the ringleaders of the 'coup'.

While there are no baloney police to arrest people for baloney, there are tax police who frown on using nonprofits to favor political candidates.

And of course, he already faces conspiracy charges associated with the California III%-ers in the Capitol breach.
 
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Officer injured in Capitol riot blasts GOP lawmaker's behavior as 'disgusting' after tense exchange

Michael Fanone, who was stun-gunned several times and beaten with a flagpole during the riot, told CNN's Don Lemon on "Don Lemon Tonight" that he had come across [GOP Rep.] Clyde in the Capitol and had been dismissed by the congressman after approaching him outside an elevator Wednesday afternoon.

Fanone's account comes after 21 House Republicans, including Clyde, voted against legislationto award the Congressional Gold Medal to the officers who had defended the Capitol.

[Clyde doesn't shake the officer's hand or engage in any meaningful way.]

Once the elevator doors opened, Fanone said, the congressman "ran as quickly as he could, like a coward."

During a House hearing last month, Clyde said that while there was an "undisciplined mob" and "some who committed acts of vandalism," many were behaving orderly, comparing them to a "normal tourist visit."
 
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Tucker's misinformation, which he laundered from a more disreputable source, claims that there are as many as 20 FBI operatives embedded in the OathKeepers group that has been charged in the 1/6 attack. This is because the most recent indictment (the 5th version, I believe) refers to a "Person 20". He claimed that these "unindicted co-conspirators" were working with the FBI before 1/6.

1. No one in that indictment is called an "unindicted co-conspirator". An FBI operative (or employee) would never be referred to as such.

2. The designations "Person 1", "Person 2", can be any kind of actor in the narrative who is not charged currently, including people who may get charged later.

3. When the first OK charging document the unnamed "Person"s were numbered 1-a few consecutively.

4. When additional OKers were charged (sometimes in parallel charging documents), numbers were reused for the same unnamed people (e.g., OK founder Stewart Rhodes is "Person One" in all of them), and new unnamed individuals were given previously unused numbers.

5. Some of the now 16 people indicted in the current version were previously known by numbers. Numbers that have not been reused.

6. It's likely that some suspects go assigned numbers by the prosecutors, but those numbers were never used in filings before the person was a named defendant.

7. In the current indictment there are 16 defendants and 4+ numbered persons. Person One is Rhodes the founder (I would be surprised if he is never indicted), Person Two or Three (I forget which) is clearly the wife of the lead defendant and traveled to DC with them, a Person Ten (I think) who coordinated with other militias, the new Person Twenty, and maybe a couple more. (I haven't reread the indictment since it came out.)
 
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Another retired NYPD officer, Thomas Webster, 54, was arrested last month, accused of assaulting a police officer outside the Capitol with a metal pole. Prosecutors said Webster beat the D.C. police officer with a flagpole that he had used to display a Marine Corps flag and was also seen tackling the officer to the ground.

Justice Department releases harrowing new bodycam footage from January 6 attack

The footage was used in the case against Thomas Webster, a former Marine and retired police officer from the New York City Police Department accused of participating in the Capitol attack.

Prosecutors say that the 56-second tape shows Webster, wearing a red coat among a large crowd of pro-Trump rioters, screaming profanities at officers, threateningly wielding a flagpole, and finally rushing at the officers, who engaged in hand-to-hand combat with him and other members of the mob. One of the officers eventually wrestles away the flagpole, but Webster then tackles the cop to the ground.

In addition to the new video, photos in charging documents show Webster straddling and grabbing at the officer who was wearing the body camera and was thrown to the ground.
 
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From the same source (CNN):

James Monroe, ... confirmed to the court that Webster was honorably discharged by the Marines and that he is a retired NYPD officer. His client went to Washington to protest issues that "Tom felt very strongly about," and was "urged on by our former President."

Two things here: the defendant is offering a defence which relies in part on being incited to riot by Trump; and Trump is acknowledged as the 'former president'.
 
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Congratulations, Florida. We’ve done it.

After months of lagging behind Texas, we’ve finally caught up and are now tied with the Lone Star State in number of people arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 riot in the Capitol.

That’s according to tracking by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, which has the number of arrestees in each state at 47.

The rot of lies and conspiracy theories that led to the Capitol riot began with Trump and his false claims of election fraud, perpetuated by his followers among Republican leadership around the country. Florida and Texas have a lot more of those Republican leaders than either California or New York. Is it so surprising that the voters who put faith in them actually believe what they say?
 
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CNN has some multimedia interviews/profiles of people who participated.

*From beloved coach to Capitol rioter, Marine veteran Donovan Crowl pulled away from his family and sauntered up to The Oath Keepers as he fell deeper into substance abuse and political extremism.

*Couy Griffin took the Wild West to Europe as an entertainer and across the country as a preacher. But when he hitched his wagon to Trumpism, it flipped his life upside down.

*A bodybuilder and bartender, Josh Pruitt stayed out of the political culture wars. That all changed when he met the Proud Boys.

*Yvonne St Cyr lost faith in organized religion, the medical establishment, the government and other institutions. She began following ▇▇▇▇▇.

*How an obscure empty-nester who found purpose in sharing her political passions on Twitter became a leader in the Republican Party’s seismic realignment – and then a key architect of the big lie.

*They preach the Bible — and the big lie. With it, Pastors Ken Peters and Greg Locke are tapping into the pro-Trump vein of Christian nationalism.

Both Peters, 49, and Locke, 44, lead ministries whose messaging aligns with a decentralized movement referred to by religion experts as Christian nationalism. Its bedrock belief is that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and must remain one.

oth Peters and Locke are proponents of a loose-knit group they call the Black Robe Regiment. The term is inspired by colonial pastors in the 18th century who supported the fight against Britain during the Revolutionary War. The group of pastors in the US see themselves as the contemporary version.

Pastor Peters flies into DC, he says, on a private jet owned by prominent Trump supporter Mike Lindell, better known as the CEO of MyPillow.

Locke, meanwhile, has ties to Roger Stone, a veteran Republican operative and self-described "dirty trickster" whose 40-month prison sentence for seven felonies was cut short by Trump's commutation in July. Stone spoke at Locke’s church in August, and the two have stayed in touch since.

Tweeting on the night of Jan 5th:

Pastor Greg Locke
@pastorlocke
God is about to dethrone some wicked people that have been in power. Very soon Twitter will be trending the unthinkable. Remember this Tweet. God will not be mocked.

Jan 6th [After VP Pence correctly declares he has no power to contest or change the outcome of the election]:
At 1:58 p.m. ET, Peters posted an angry tweet about Pence: “If Mike Pence thinks cowardice is going to save the Republic he’s got another thing coming.”

Both have condemned the violence, but said antifa or paid instigators were responsible for inciting the riot — a contention for which no credible evidence has emerged.
 
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Shaner is one of many D.C. lawyers assigned to represent Capitol defendants who can’t afford their own attorneys, as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and as laid out in the Criminal Justice Act. In addition to representing her clients in court, Shaner has seized an opportunity to try and educate them on the history their teachers glossed over.

(S)he decided to take an even more intensive approach with her Capitol [insurrection] clients, who were part of another ugly, historical event in American history.

Shaner said her clients had poor educations and knew very little about the country. Her two female clients took to the task with zeal, Shaner said, and got library cards for the first time in their lives.

“Both my women are like, ‘I never learned this in school. Why don’t I know about this?’” Shaner said.

The educational program is unlikely to have much of an ultimate impact in the sentencing of a defendant like Copeland, who is charged with assaulting officers at the Capitol. But for a client like Morgan-Lloyd ― an apologetic Capitol defendant not accused of any violence, who pleaded guilty only to a “parading” charge that a more typical protester might receive for interrupting a committee hearing ― it might have some impact.


It seems like mostly PR to influence the judge, but maybe some actual learning is going on.
 
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A Tennessee man pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally demonstrating inside the US Capitol on January 6, becoming the fifth rioter to admit their guilt in the massive federal probe.

Bryan Ivey, 28, pleaded guilty to the single misdemeanor during a virtual hearing in DC District Court.

He has agreed to pay $500 to help repair damages to the Capitol, which has become the standard fine for rioters pleading to misdemeanors.

Four other rioters have pleaded guilty. Two pleaded to felonies and could face years in prison, including a supporter of the Oath Keepers who brought bear spray into the Capitol, and another rioter who breached the Senate chamber. Another two rioters, a Virginia couple who carried anti-vaccination signs in the Capitol, pleaded to a single misdemeanor charge, similar to Ivey.
 
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Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Charges of Conspiracy and Obstruction Following Jan. 6 Capitol Breach
Defendant is First in a Sixteen-Person, Oath-Keeper-Affiliated Conspiracy Case to Cooperate and Plead Guilty Arising from Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

Graydon Young, 54, of Englewood, pleaded guilty to counts one and two of the fourth superseding indictment issued on May 26, which charged him with conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Young faces up to 20 years in prison for obstruction of Congress and up to five years in prison for conspiracy as well as three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine.

According to court documents, Young coordinated with others – some of whom are affiliated with the Oath Keepers – in advance of his activities in Washington on Jan. 6.

Young admitted to unlawfully entering the restricted grounds of the U.S. Capitol around 2:28 p.m. and, around 2:40 p.m., joining co-conspirators to walk up the east side of the building. Young and others walked in a “stack” formation, with each person keeping a hand on the shoulder of the person in front. Young believed that when he entered the building, he and the co-conspirators were trying to obstruct, influence and impede an official proceeding, specifically Congress’s certification of the Electoral College vote.
 
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The Bexar County Sheriff's Office dismissed a lieutenant who attended protests that turned into a deadly riot at the U.S Capitol this January six months after she was suspended from her position.

Roxanne Mathai, an admitted ardent supporter of President Donald Trump, said she did not participate in the breach of the Capitol building and was compliant with federal officers.

The sheriff also announced during that press conference that Mathai was on administrative leave for other allegations of an inappropriate relationship with an inmate. (oh my!)

The lieutenant filed a grievance against the dismissal, but BCSO said the decision was upheld. The sheriff's office terminated her employment on June 11.
 
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