Breach of the Capitol: Consequences, Repercussions & Reactions

[SimplyMe]

I'm willing to let this one guy go free to establish a precedent that Fox News' purpose (or at least the main one) is to incite their viewers towards violent overthrow of the US government. Seems like sufficient cause to shut them down and prosecute the people involved in that illegal activity.

I can't go for that. While I have issues with certain talking heads on Fox News, they have freedom of speech and that people don't critically listen is not the fault of the Network.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Great article, but I'll focus on the insurrection-related portions. The broader story talks about the infighting among the Trumpy-conspiracy wing of local Republicans and the more moderate Republicans. The moderate mayor of McKinney, Texas was reelected, but his "Trump-supporter siblings no longer speak to him."

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Texas was home to three dozen of the 377 alleged insurrectionists arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, tied with Pennsylvania for the most of any state, according to a study by terror experts at the University of Chicago. Of Texans charged, 20 live in half a dozen rapidly diversifying blue counties around Houston and Dallas, including several in McKinney’s Collin County.

The study found that Texas’ rioters were older, more professional and had fewer ties to radical groups than past right-wing extremists. All came from counties that had lost white populations in recent years. Collin County’s white population has declined at a rate of 4.3% since 2015. The study’s authors cited increased fear among conservative whites that they would be overtaken by minorities in a “Great Replacement.”

Chabot said Collin County resembles Orange County [California] 20 years ago, before cities diversified and demographics shifted. The same Newport Beach-based architects who designed Woodbridge in Irvine in 1975 designed Stonebridge Ranch in McKinney in 1988, where Chabot’s relocation company helps resettle Californians, many of them conservatives.

Those charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot include lawyers, retirees, tech executives and veterans; among them was McKinney resident Kevin Sam Blakely, 55, who did not respond to requests for comment. Others included Jenna Ryan, 50, of nearby Frisco, who flew to Washington in a private plane with two fellow Realtors who live in the area and did not respond to requests for comment.

Other Collin County residents attended the rally but were not charged and remained unapologetic.

“It was the most historic event we’ve ever done,” Diane Andrews, 50, said as she sat on her patio in nearby Plano last week showing off photos and video of herself outside the doors of the Capitol, posing with broken windows and the so-called ▇ Shaman in his horned hat.

Andrews and her friend Lee Jenkins, a hair stylist, said they joined the crowd “storming the Capitol” but insisted most protesters were peaceful and didn’t deserve to be charged. The women said they had considered entering the building too, but decided not to because they feared the tear gas would aggravate Jenkins’ asthma.

Photos Andrews had posted online were circulated. Although Jenkins — whose business had just reopened after the pandemic lockdown — lost some liberal clients, she said she gained conservative ones, as did Andrews, who works as a dominatrix.

They watch Fox News’ Tucker Carlson and follow conservative Telegram online channels. They believe aspects of ▇▇▇▇▇ theory, including that the government has been infiltrated by pedophiles, and bridle at it being called a conspiracy: “It’s no longer a conspiracy theory when I can show you facts,” Jenkins said, wearing a “Jesus Matters” T-shirt, a nod to conservative opponents of Black Lives Matter, which Andrews dismissed as “Marxist.”

 

[essentialsaltes]

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Two men accused of spraying police with chemical spray, including on Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, during the Capitol riot will stay in jail as they await trial, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

The long-awaited ruling from Judge Thomas Hogan of the DC District Court comes in one of the most closely watched cases related to Trump supporters' violence against police during the insurrection.

The hearing marked the third time at least one of the Sicknick assault defendants had gone before a judge to argue over whether they should stay in jail. The Justice Department has struggled to keep many Capitol riot defendants in jail as they await trial, because of high legal standards in place, and judges have taken their decisions case by case, often looking to one another's rulings.

Overall, the federal courts in Washington, DC, have considered the Capitol rioters' assaults of police to be the most egregious among any of the charges related to the insurrection, confirming that individuals who are accused of violence could be considered under the law to be dangerous if released.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Gary Wickersham of West Chester, Pa., offered federal investigators a bizarre narrative of debunked conspiracy theories and contradictory statements surrounding the attack, according to a criminal complaint unsealed in federal court this week.

The 80-year-old told investigators in January that the insurrection was a “staged” act and that many of the people he saw “cursing, screaming, knocking cops away, breaking windows and doors, and entering the Capitol” were “members of antifa.” According to the complaint, Wickersham also believed his 20 minutes inside the Capitol were authorized “because he pays his taxes.”

Investigators interviewed Wickersham at his West Chester home on Jan. 15, where he confirmed much of what the FBI suspected: He admitted to taking a bus to Washington with other supporters of President Donald Trump, attending Trump’s rally at the Ellipse and then marching to the Capitol.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Active Duty Marine Major Christopher Warnagiris is arrested for participating in Capitol riot

• Warnagiris, of Woodbridge, Virginia, is charged in federal court with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers. He will make his initial court appearance Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Major Christopher Warnagiris, who is the first active-duty member of the U.S. armed forces to be charged in connection with the riot, is accused of pushing his way past a line of police protecting the Capitol and forcing his way through a doorway in the East Rotunda of the Capitol.

 

[essentialsaltes]

related: man arrested with sword and 6 daggers near senate office buildings.

ETA: you bet it was Florida man.

Newman faces criminal charges for illegally carrying a dangerous weapon. Court documents identify him as a resident of Bradenton, Fla., which is near Tampa.

Newman allegedly told police that the sword, which was sheathed and slung over his back, “was for his protection because people were trying to harm him,” according to a police affidavit.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Proud Boy leader Ethan Nordean lashed out at Trump on Jan. 20, when it dawned on him that he’d likely be going to jail for the ex-president, according to new messages revealed by prosecutors last night.

He expresses himself rather forcefully, so no link.

 

[KCfromNC]

The 80-year-old told investigators in January that the insurrection was a “staged” act and that many of the people he saw “cursing, screaming, knocking cops away, breaking windows and doors, and entering the Capitol” were “members of antifa.” According to the complaint, Wickersham also believed his 20 minutes inside the Capitol were authorized “because he pays his taxes.”

This is a man who, without a doubt, needs to represent himself at his trial.

 

[essentialsaltes]

He led the Proud Boys in the Capitol riot and shamed his town

DES MOINES, Wash. — Dozens of merchants here on the shore of Puget Sound received a letter in August of 2019 decrying the rise of far-right extremism in America — and its arrival in their town.

“Here in our own community, a prominent seafood restaurant on Marine View Drive has a connection with the Proud Boys,” it said.

Ethan Nordean, an on-and-off assistant manager at his father’s restaurant, Wally’s Chowder House, was a rising star in the violent, far-right hate group that made its name brawling with left-wing activists. The issue divided the town.

After reaching a fever pitch last summer, the controversy receded, and for a few months it seemed that Wally’s might simply go back to being good old Wally’s.

Then on Jan. 6, the Proud Boys took the lead in the march on the U.S. Capitol, reaching the steps ahead of the larger mob that stormed the building to try to block the certification of Joe Biden’s election as president.

Front and center was a 30-year-old dressed in black with sunglasses and a tactical vest: Ethan Nordean.

Mike Nordean said that his son had floundered since joining the Navy out of high school in hopes of becoming a SEAL, only to wash out of basic training. A bodybuilder, he worked in a gym and sold fitness supplements until his father hired him as a dishwasher, then as an assistant manager.

Tension grew that June when video of Ethan knocking out an antifa, or anti-fascist, activist at a rally in Portland went viral, making him something of a folk hero on the extreme right.

“It’s beautiful,” Jones said of Ethan’s sweeping right hook during their interview the next week. “How good did it feel, at least later, once you saw his head hit the pavement?”

“Well, like Gavin McInnes says, violence isn’t great, but justified violence is amazing,” Nordean said with a chuckle.

[Ethan was fired, but later rehired at one of his father's other restaurants.]

The manager there, Kimarie Johnson, said Mike Nordean told her that it was their best hope for getting Ethan out of the Proud Boys.

“I felt like it could almost kill Mike, like he’d have a heart attack or stroke out,” she said. “He said, ‘I’ve just got to get him away from these people.’”

[That sure didn't work. Fired again.]

Nordean wrote that Ethan no longer worked for the restaurants. He said he had also fired Dryden, his son’s wife.

Townspeople had mixed reactions.

Pat Glaze, a commenter on a local news blog, criticized Nordean for publicly condemning Ethan, asking: “What kind of a loser throws his own child under the bus to appease violent anti-American leftists?”

Other residents welcomed the statement, although many found it implausible that the couple didn’t know about the group’s extremism much earlier.

[Jan 6]

In court filings, federal prosecutors described Nordean as a major figure in the attack.

“We stormed the capital. It was great,” he allegedly wrote afterward on the encrypted app Telegram. “The cops started shooting us with pepper balls and boom bombs and we stormed them and busted down the doors. Thousands and thousands of people it was insane.”

He is now in federal detention facing conspiracy charges on allegations of planning to “obstruct, influence and impede” the certification of the presidential election.

 

[wing2000]

Active Duty Marine Major Christopher Warnagiris is arrested for participating in Capitol riot

• Warnagiris, of Woodbridge, Virginia, is charged in federal court with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers. He will make his initial court appearance Thursday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Major Christopher Warnagiris, who is the first active-duty member of the U.S. armed forces to be charged in connection with the riot, is accused of pushing his way past a line of police protecting the Capitol and forcing his way through a doorway in the East Rotunda of the Capitol.

He can kiss his military career goodbye......a Marine Major...

 

[Desk trauma]

He can kiss his military career goodbye......a Marine Major...

Play stupid games....

 

[KCfromNC]

He can kiss his military career goodbye......a Marine Major...

Who Is Punishable Under Article 94 of the UCMJ

 

[essentialsaltes]

A rapper posed on a SWAT truck during the Capitol riots and put it on his album. He’s facing federal charges.

With a cigar in his right hand and an American flag draped by his side, Antionne DeShaun Brodnax sat on a U.S. Capitol Police SWAT truck as hordes of President Donald Trump’s supporters climbed the Capitol steps, storming the building behind him.

An image of that moment made its way to federal agents thanks to tipsters.

But more recently, it also became the cover of Brodnax’s new rap album, “The Capital.”

They arrested him on March 11 — days after he released his album — and as of May 11, Brodnax faces four federal charges, including unlawful entry and disorderly conduct.

According Brodnax, he did not plan to enter the Capitol building on Jan. 6. In an interview with investigators, he said he went to the Capitol after noticing the rally and seeing people heading toward the building.

“Brodnax followed the crowd to the United States Capitol Building and entered the building after United States Capitol Police moved the gates that blockaded the door,” the affidavit said.

The rapper claimed he entered the building “peacefully” and spent about 40 minutes walking around taking “pictures and videos of the architecture,” according to court documents. He added that he didn’t go into any offices or chambers and denied stealing anything or partaking in violence.

Video footage showed him inside the National Statuary Hall asking a woman to take a picture of him sitting on the base of a statue of Norman Borlaug, an agronomist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970.

Whatever else you may say, he has great taste in people commemorated by statues.

 

[essentialsaltes]

Sorry, Lauren. Not gonna happen.

 

[essentialsaltes]

He bragged at the dentist’s office about attending the Capitol riot, feds say. Another patient turned him in.

Less than a week after the failed insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, a patient at a dentist’s office in western New York couldn’t believe what was being said nearby. During a routine checkup on Jan. 12, a patient listened in as an alleged rioter who was getting his teeth cleaned bragged about his breach of the building, according to federal authorities.

Daniel Warmus, of Alden, N.Y., talked of smoking marijuana inside the Capitol and refusing a police officer’s order to leave the building, and even proudly played a video from Jan. 6, a federal complaint states.

That mundane trip to the dentist’s office led to an investigation that concluded this week with Warmus, 37, in police custody.

Warmus, who made the nearly 300-mile journey from western New York apparently in hopes of overturning the election results, was seen wearing a Trump 2020 hat and sweatshirt that read, “CNN is fake news,” and waving a large flag with an expletive directed toward the far-left movement antifa, according to a nine-page statement of facts.

 

[Whyayeman]

In custody, but with shiny teeth.

 

[essentialsaltes]

An attorney for one of the more prominent Trump loyalists to enter the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 to stop the certification of the presidential election has an unorthodox defense for people like his client: they’re dullards.

“A lot of these defendants — and I’m going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they’re all [doggone] short-bus people,” Albert Watkins told Talking Points Memo. “These are people with brain damage.”

Watkins, who represents self-proclaimed “▇▇▇▇▇ Shaman” Jacob Chansley, used a couple more descriptors that were less than politically correct to make his case before arguing that regardless of their critical thinking skills, many of the alleged Capitol-stormers are unexceptional Americans, who were conned into doing something out of character.

“They were subjected to four-plus years of [dang] propaganda, the likes of which the world has not seen since [doggone] Hitler,” Watkins told TPM.

 

[Whyayeman]

“They were subjected to four-plus years of [dang] propaganda, the likes of which the world has not seen since [doggone] Hitler,”

You all were. This is a bizarre defence. Ignorance is never a defence; can stupidity be? I think he is getting his mitigation speech in early.

 

[KCfromNC]

An attorney for one of the more prominent Trump loyalists to enter the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 to stop the certification of the presidential election has an unorthodox defense for people like his client: they’re dullards.

“A lot of these defendants — and I’m going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they’re all [doggone] short-bus people,” Albert Watkins told Talking Points Memo. “These are people with brain damage.”

Watkins, who represents self-proclaimed “▇▇▇▇▇ Shaman” Jacob Chansley, used a couple more descriptors that were less than politically correct to make his case before arguing that regardless of their critical thinking skills, many of the alleged Capitol-stormers are unexceptional Americans, who were conned into doing something out of character.

“They were subjected to four-plus years of [dang] propaganda, the likes of which the world has not seen since [doggone] Hitler,” Watkins told TPM.

Alright! More evidence for my idea of a conspiracy against the US Government case against Fox News.

 

[Whyayeman]

Sorry. I don't follow. (Is the government suing Fox News? That's news to me!)