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Ginni Thomas apologizes to her husband's clerks for supporting the riot
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Judge in Las Vegas detains 2 suspects in US Capitol riot
A man accused of plotting and joining an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, then attacking police officers, wept Monday during a hearing in Las Vegas as a judge ruled that he must remain in custody until trial.
Ronald “Ronnie” Sandlin, 31, of Memphis, Tennessee, was arrested last week in Las Vegas, where prosecutors said he was hiding out with Nathaniel DeGrave, 31.
On Monday, in a hearing made available to news media only by telephone, U.S. Magistrate Judge Daniel Albregts detained the two men on felony counts of obstructing law enforcement incident to civil disorder and misdemeanor charges related to “unlawful and disorderly conduct” in Washington, D.C., on the day a four-hour riot left five dead, including a Capitol Police officer.
Before finding that the pair would be sent to Washington for trial, Albregts concluded that Sandlin and DeGrave had “an utter disregard and utter lack of respect for the nation’s most sacred ins utions.”
Sandlin could be heard sobbing.
“Your honor, have mercy on me,” Sandlin cried. “Please.”
In a separate hearing, DeGrave seemed less emotional, and only spoke briefly.
Assistant Federal Public Defender Cristen Thayer, his lawyer, argued that he was not a threat to obstruct justice or a risk to flee.
Prosecutors have tied Sandlin to two separate assaults on law enforcement officers and called his conduct “extremely troubling.”
Sandlin tried to rip an officer’s helmet off as the officer tried to steer the mob away from a Capitol entrance, inson argued in his brief, and “engaged in a shoving match with an officer attempting to lock and secure a set of doors inside the Capitol.”
Sandlin said he told his parents that before his arrest he had planned to turn himself in to the FBI, and he had them ship him a suit overnight.
“I did not assume I was going to be tackled to the ground by five federal agents,” he told the judge. “If I had known that, I would have turned myself in immediately.”
In a separate detention memo, inson said of DeGrave that “there is clear and convincing evidence that the defendant poses a serious risk to obstruct justice.”
DeGrave did not have a significant criminal history, according to the prosecutor.
“However, the defendant’s actions, as demonstrated by his apparent willingness to engage in assaultive behavior as part of a violent mob and his preparation and planning for violence leading up to January 6 should give this Court great concern about the danger he would pose to the community if released,” inson wrote.
In the scuffle with Capitol police, the prosecutor wrote, DeGrave also became aggressive.
He was spotted on video “putting up his fists as if to begin boxing one of the retreating USCP officers,” inson wrote. “As the USCP officer steps away, DeGrave is observed banging his chest. DeGrave then removes his mask/face shield, revealing his face and a red-white-and-blue bandanna around his neck.”
Before the attack, authorities allege, Sandlin frequently repeated a “battle cry” of “freedom is paid for with blood.”
He and DeGrave exchanged messages on Facebook in the week leading up to the attack, according to the detention memo.
“Yo sorry bro I’m going back and fourth about going some people I respect are saying it may get dangerous,” Sandlin wrote. “Are you down for danger bro?”
DeGrave responded: “Im bringing bullet proof clothing” and “yes.”
Authorities have said more arrests are possible.
Sandlin was arrested at the Las Vegas apartment complex where DeGrave lives.
The FBI used video surveillance, social media posts, a driver’s license photo and tips from the public to conclude that Sandlin, DeGrave and another man, Josiah Colt of Boise, Idaho, were a trio pictured on video surveillance in the Capitol during the insurrection. Sandlin and DeGrave were convinced the election was being stolen, according to the do ent.
Prosecutors said DeGrave, Sandlin and Colt were among those who plotted and encouraged the violent insurrection, leaving digital footprints throughout social media before they stormed the U.S. Capitol, and before Sandlin and DeGrave fled to Las Vegas.
Along the way, they also accidentally sprayed themselves with bear mace.
Authorities obtained an undated, eight-second video clip that showed DeGrave’s mace going off in his pocket and clouding a van in which the trio were riding.
“Both Sandlin and Colt are seen coughing in the video,” according to the detention memo.
DeGrave also was quoted as saying on social media: “It’s time the American people rise and stand up for this country. We’re tired of the corruption.”
The Capitol siege unfolded as lawmakers inside were working to certify Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential election victory.
‘A spoke in the wheel’
DeGrave and Sandlin were each “a spoke in the wheel that caused the historic events,” inson wrote.
According to the FBI, Sandlin posted an invitation to the protests on social media on Dec. 31 and wrote, “I’m organizing a caravan of patriots who are going to Washington D.C. to stand behind our president Donald J. Trump.”
According to the FBI, on one of the videos from the Capitol grounds, a man resembling DeGrave says: “We are out here protecting the country. If (expletive) goes down, if (Vice President Mike) Pence does what we think he is going to do, then we are here to defend this city, defend any city in this country. Let antifa try us. We are here. We are ready. I say bring it. We are not silent anymore.”
Antifa is shorthand for “anti-fascists,” an umbrella description for the far-left-leaning militant groups that resist neo-Nazis and white supremacists at demonstrations and other events.
An analysis of video surveillance from the Capitol Senate Gallery later showed Sandlin and a person believed to be DeGrave in a shoving match with officers, according to the FBI.
According to the FBI, an article and video published in the New York Post depicted Sandlin smoking what appeared to be marijuana in the Capitol Rotunda. A subpoena allowed the FBI to trace a Facebook account repeatedly cited in the warrant to Sandlin’s Memphis address.
Colt is already facing federal charges of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. He’s been identified in multiple media reports as the man photographed clinging to a balcony in the Senate during the insurrection. He also was pictured sitting in Pence’s chair in the chamber.
Contact David Ferrara at [email protected] or 702-380-1039. Follow @randompoker on Twitter.
gun-fellatin wannabe Macho Men weepily, pathetically begging for mercy.
The Capitol Rioters Aren’t Like Other Extremists
We analyzed 193 people arrested in connection with the January 6 riot—and found a new kind of American radicalism.
First, the attack on the Capitol was unmistakably an act of political violence,
not merely an exercise in vandalism or trespassing amid a disorderly protest that had spiraled out of control.
The overwhelming reason for action, cited again and again in court do ents, was that arrestees were following Trump’s orders
to keep Congress from certifying Joe Biden as the presidential-election winner.
Second, a large majority of suspects in the Capitol riot have no connection to existing far-right militias, white-nationalist gangs, or other established violent organizations.
20 of the Capitol arrestees we studied— one-tenth—can be classified as supporters of gangs, militias, or militia-like groups such as the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Three Percenters. The role that such groups played in the riot has attracted considerable news coverage.
But 89 percent of arrestees have no apparent affiliation with any known militant organization.
Third, the demographic profile of the suspected Capitol rioters is different
from that of past right-wing extremists. The average age of the arrestees we studied is 40.
Two-thirds are 35 or older, and 40 percent are business owners or hold white-collar jobs.
Unlike the stereotypical extremist, many of the alleged participants in the Capitol riot have a lot to lose.
They work as CEOs, shop owners, doctors, lawyers, IT specialists, and accountants.
Strikingly, court do ents indicate that only 9 percent are unemployed.
Of the earlier far-right-extremist suspects we studied, 61 percent were under 35, 25 percent were unemployed, and almost none worked in white-collar occupations.
Fourth, most of the insurrectionists do not come from deep-red strongholds
of those arrested for their role in the Capitol riot, more than half came from counties that Biden won;
one-sixth came from counties that Trump won with less than 60 percent of the vote.
Importantly, our statistics show that the larger the absolute number of Trump voters in a county—regardless of whether he won it—the more likely it was to be home to a Capitol arrestee.
This breakdown mirrors the American population as a whole—and that is the point. If you presumed that only the reddest parts of America produce potential insurrectionists, you would be incorrect.
the Capitol riot revealed a new force in American politics ...
a broader mass political movement that has violence at its core
and draws strength even from places where Trump supporters are in the minority.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/02/the-capitol-rioters-arent-like-other-extremists/617895/
"stab in the back"
Fleecing the suckers.
GOP’s Lauren Boebert caught up in new ethics scandal after review of her mileage expenses
Ethics experts are asking questions about the more than $22,000 in mileage reimbursements Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) paid herself from her campaign last year,
"To justify those reimbursements, Boebert would have had to drive 38,712 miles while campaigning,
despite having no publicly advertised campaign events in March, April or July, and only one in May,"
"Furthermore, because the reimbursements came in two payments — a modest $1,060 at the end of March and $21,200 on Nov. 11 —
Boebert would have had to drive 36,870 miles in just over seven months between April 1 and Nov. 11 to justify the second payment."
https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boeb..._campaign=6491
Send her to federal pound her in the ass prisonGOP’s Lauren Boebert caught up in new ethics scandal after review of her mileage expenses
Ethics experts are asking questions about the more than $22,000 in mileage reimbursements Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) paid herself from her campaign last year,
"To justify those reimbursements, Boebert would have had to drive 38,712 miles while campaigning,
despite having no publicly advertised campaign events in March, April or July, and only one in May,"
"Furthermore, because the reimbursements came in two payments — a modest $1,060 at the end of March and $21,200 on Nov. 11 —
Boebert would have had to drive 36,870 miles in just over seven months between April 1 and Nov. 11 to justify the second payment."
https://www.rawstory.com/lauren-boeb..._campaign=6491
FBI raids homes of Trump supporters who sponsored rally that took place one day before Capitol attack
... sponsored a rally near the U.S. Capitol one day before the deadly attack on the building by a mob of Trump supporters on Jan.
it's the first time search warrants have been served involving people who organized and spoke at rallies before the attack.
Russell Taylor and Alan Hostetter, who run the "American Phoenix Project," which co-sponsored a pro-Trump rally near the Supreme Court on Jan 5.
During the rally,
Hostetter told the crowd to prepare for "war tomorrow" against "vipers" in Congress who refused to reverse the results of the 2020 election.
Taylor told the crowd, "We will not return to our peaceful way of life until this election is made right."
Taylor and Hostetter are "well do ented" promoters of conspiracy theories
ranging from QAnon to false claims about the COVID-19 pandemic.
https://www.rawstory.com/russell-taylor-and-alan-hostetter
Accused Capitol rioter allowed to travel for Mexico 'retreat'
A Texas woman charged in connection with last month’s siege at the U.S. Capitol has asked to be allowed to travel to Mexico for a "weekend retreat" -- and the federal judge assigned to the case approved the request, court papers show.
Attorneys for Jenny Louise Cudd asked a U.S. magistrate judge on Monday if she could travel to Riviera Maya, Mexico, from Feb. 18 to Feb 21 because she "planned and prepaid for a weekend retreat with her employees" before the alleged crimes, court papers show.
The attorneys for Cudd, who was charged with entering a restricted building or grounds and violent entry or disorderly conduct in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection, submitted the request on Monday.
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Cudd, a Midland-based florist, was released on a personal recognizance bond in connection with the misdemeanor charges.
"This is a work-related bonding retreat for employees and their spouses," the court papers continue.
Prosecutors took "no position" on Cudd’s request.
That same day, the judge approved the request and ordered her pretrial travel restrictions be changed to allow her to leave for Mexico on Feb. 18 and return on Feb. 21.
Of course they planned it.
They.
had.
T-shirts.
made.
about that "work bonding retreat"
the presence the VP and VP-elect is noted in the indictment.
Totally agree. I threw it around a bit before half mockingly, but not any longer. It is pretty plain.
what will become of real americans.
ooops. Do serious , get serious charges.
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