They would have bail money if they hadn't tossed it in Jim Jones, err, Don Trump's collection plate.
He's laughing his ass off of at you idiots, and he should be!
Thousands of Maskless Trumpers in DC
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They would have bail money if they hadn't tossed it in Jim Jones, err, Don Trump's collection plate.
He's laughing his ass off of at you idiots, and he should be!
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https://nbc-2.com/news/national-wor...-house-speaker-nancy-pelosis-office-arrested/
Man pictured with foot on desk of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi?s office arrested
By Pete Williams and Erik Ortiz
WASHINGTON ? A man photographed casually sitting with his foot on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office at the U.S. Capitol while a pro-Trump mob rampaged the halls of Congress was arrested Friday, law enforcement officials said.
Richard Barnett, 60, of Gravette, Arkansas, was taken into custody in his home state on federal charges of entering and remaining on restricted grounds, violent entry and theft of public property, according to a Department of Justice official. Further details were not immediately available.
Images, apparently of Barnett, were splashed across social media as the deadly mayhem unfolded in the nation's capital on Wednesday, just as Democratic and Republican lawmakers convened to count the Electoral College votes. Members of Congress condemned the violence and rioting, which was preceded by a rally led by President Donald Trump who told his supporters to swarm the Capitol in defiance of the election results.
Also charged Friday in connection with the rioting at the Capitol was a state lawmaker from West Virginia, Republican Del. Derrick Evans, who had recorded and then deleted a video of himself joining the throng. A petition has been started for him to step down.
As the chaos continued Wednesday afternoon, a New York Times reporter tweeted that he spoke with Barnett after his stunt in Pelosi's office. In a video, he boasts that he took a personalized envelope, but insisted he didn't steal it.
"I left a quarter on her desk," he said.
Barnett also claimed that he knocked politely on the door to the California Democrat's office, but was then swept inside by other rioters who had breached the Capitol. He said he left a "nasty note" as well, using an expletive to refer to Pelosi.
"I'll probably be telling them this is what happened all the way to the D.C. jail," he added.
It was not immediately clear Friday if Barnett had an attorney.
The mayor of Gravette said the photos have brought threats and other unwelcome attention to his small, rural community near the Missouri border.
"It's a shame something like this is what puts you in the public eye," Mayor Kurt Maddox said, according to NBC affiliate KNWA. "This is not the city of Gravette. This one person is not who Gravette is and not who the people are."
Aides to Pelosi have said her office was vandalized on Wednesday, and confirmed that a laptop from a conference room had been stolen. The equipment, however, was used only for presentations, an aide said.
Pelosi and other Democratic leaders have called for Trump to be removed from office amid his final days in the White House.
The FBI is requesting the public's help in identifying other Trump supporters who unlawfully invaded the Capitol for about four hours, with investigators poring over surveillance footage and social media posts. But the vast majority of the hundreds of people who stormed the building were allowed to leave without getting arrested, making the task of tracking them down exceedingly difficult.
So far, dozens of arrests have been made, including 41 people who were at the Capitol grounds late Wednesday and early Thursday, according to D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department.
Pete Williams reported from Washington, and Erik Ortiz from New York.
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Richard Barnett, man seen in viral photograph at Nancy Pelosi's desk during Capitol siege, arrested: Officials
CNNWire By Kara Scannell, CNN
https://abc7ny.com/richard-barnett-arkansas-gravette-capitol-pelsoi/9470889/
WASHINGTON -- The man photographed sitting at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk during Wednesday's riots in the US Capitol has been arrested and charged with three federal counts, including theft of public property, federal officials said Friday.
Federal officials said Richard Barnett of Arkansas was taken into custody Friday morning in Little Rock.
Barnett was charged with knowingly entering and remaining in restricted building grounds without authority, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds as well as the theft of public property, officials said.
A resident of Alabama was also charged in connection with the pipe bomb found on the south side of the Capitol building. Eleven Molotov cocktails and military-style weapon were found in his pickup truck, officials said.
"Just because you've left the DC region you can still expect a knock on the door if we find out you were part of the criminal activity at the Capitol," said Steven D'Antuono, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington field office.
"The FBI is not sparing any resources in this investigation," he said.
It was not immediately clear whether Barnett has an attorney.
Barnett is in FBI custody, the Benton County, Arkansas, sheriff's office public information officer Lt. Shannon Jenkins confirmed to CNN.
"He is in the custody of the FBI. He did not get booked into our facility. He was transported to another facility and in the custody of the FBI," she said in an email.
When asked, Jenkins did not provide the name of the facility that Barnett was transferred to.
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CNNWire By Kara Scannell, CNN
https://abc7ny.com/richard-barnett-arkansas-gravette-capitol-pelsoi/9470889/
WASHINGTON -- The man photographed sitting at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's desk during Wednesday's riots in the US Capitol has been arrested and charged with three federal counts, including theft of public property, federal officials said Friday.
Federal officials said Richard Barnett of Arkansas was taken into custody Friday morning in Little Rock.
Barnett was charged with knowingly entering and remaining in restricted building grounds without authority, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds as well as the theft of public property, officials said.
A resident of Alabama was also charged in connection with the pipe bomb found on the south side of the Capitol building. Eleven Molotov cocktails and military-style weapon were found in his pickup truck, officials said.
"Just because you've left the DC region you can still expect a knock on the door if we find out you were part of the criminal activity at the Capitol," said Steven D'Antuono, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington field office.
"The FBI is not sparing any resources in this investigation," he said.
It was not immediately clear whether Barnett has an attorney.
Barnett is in FBI custody, the Benton County, Arkansas, sheriff's office public information officer Lt. Shannon Jenkins confirmed to CNN.
"He is in the custody of the FBI. He did not get booked into our facility. He was transported to another facility and in the custody of the FBI," she said in an email.
When asked, Jenkins did not provide the name of the facility that Barnett was transferred to.
The-CNN-Wire ? & ? 2020 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights reserved.
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How many social media pages ,phones and computers where ditched in the hours following the attempted coup?
Over/Under 10 million.:0corn
Over/Under 10 million.:0corn
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rioters-fired-face-company-boycotts-233136589.html
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The con man is doing his damage to lives of several of his marks!
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The con man is doing his damage to lives of several of his marks!
?You can?t tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesters yesterday they wouldn?t have been treated very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol,? Biden said in Wilmington, before beginning to hammer his fist against the lectern.
Well,well well, they finally started arresting rioters. That's different treatment.
New invention called Google. You can look up information on people getting arrested for breaking the law at BLM protests. You should try it. It might help to keep you from looking like such a fool.
91% of Portland protest arrests not being prosecuted
https://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/493642-396291-91-of-portland-protest-arrests-not-being-prosecuted
So, they're pursuing prosecution for some of the offenders. Essentially, 1 out of every 10. I believe there have been ~ 1,000 arrests. Doesn't that kind of shit on your point?
Yes. And how many of the thousands who bum rushed the Capitol have been arrested? A couple dozen?
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Protesters enter the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session today to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. A group of Republican senators said they would reject the Electoral College votes of several states unless Congress appointed a commission to audit the election results.
Police arrest Florida man caught on camera carrying Pelosi?s lectern during Capitol riot
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/state/florida/article248390100.html
Florida resident Adam Christian Johnson, the man captured in viral photo
carrying Speaker Nancy Pelosi?s lectern from House chambers during the riot at
the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, has been arrested.
Johnson, 36, was booked into the Pinellas County jail shortly after 9 p.m. Friday..
According to jail records, he is being held on a federal warrant.
The FBI was searching for Johnson, who was quickly identified on social media by
local residents as the man seen in the photo carrying the lectern during the riot.
Do you just wait for someone to post a meme to Facebook then bring it to Jack's forum to post because you think it makes you look smart? Well, when you post other people's work and try to wedge it in, completely out of context, you look like a jackass. You can't tell me that you aren't sharp enough to post that in the Trump Tweets thread. Good grief.
I read this and thought of you.....
https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-pelosi-desk-photo-others-200425314.html
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USA TODAY
FBI looking for man in Senate with zip ties, tactical gear; experts call him a rioter 'hunting for people'
Sarah Macaraeg, Memphis Commercial Appeal
https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-looking-man-senate-zip-031518048.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=2_04
Fri, January 8, 2021, 10:15 PM EST
Holding five pairs of zip-tie handcuffs, a man in head-to-toe paramilitary gear coursed through the upper level of the U.S. Senate Chamber Wednesday, captured by a Getty photographer as a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the nation's Capitol.
The man was not with security, who'd recently evacuated U.S. Senators and Vice President Mike Pence from the floor below. Experts say he was among the rioters who disrupted U.S. Congress's certification of Trump's election loss with violence, resulting in five fatalities to date.
With his identity unconfirmed by officials as of Thursday evening, the motives of the man whose tactical gear is adorned with symbols indicating support for military and police ? including a "thin blue line" in the shape of Tennessee ? cannot be verified.
Protesters enter the Senate Chamber at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. Trump supporters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital.
But for two counter-terrorism experts, the photographs bring to mind a recent plot hatched by Michigan extremist group the Wolverine Watchmen ? to take politicians hostage after storming the state capitol and subduing law enforcement with Molotov cocktails, according to sworn Federal Bureau of Investigation statements in court documents.
'Incited violence': Several House Democrats call for Trump to be impeached over DC riots
Extremists recently plotted to storm a state Capitol, take hostages
The Michigan extremists eventually shifted their focus, from a siege on the state capitol to kidnapping Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from her home. The FBI announced the arrest of 13 people, on federal and state charges, in October.
Ari Weil, deputy research director for the University of Chicago's Militant Propaganda Analysis team, said the zip ties seen at the Capitol Wednesday are "reminiscent" of the Michigan plot ? and suggest a desire to "conduct vigilante justice against members of Congress".
Malcolm Nance, a retired Navy counter-terrorism intelligence officer of 35 years and New York Times bestselling author of multiple books on national security, said he had the same thought as Weil when the zip-ties and tactical gear appeared on social media in the aftermath of the first breach of the building in more than 200 years.
"My greatest fear is that they use this mass of people to push through to breach the building ? then what we call a Capture and Kill team," Nance said.
As the executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project, a small think tank studying the strategies and tactics of radical ideologies, Nance said he watched the mob escalate in real-time as his team tracked four different live streams from separate sides of the Capitol Wednesday.
'A direct attack on democracy': World leaders react with shock after Trump supporters riot at US Capitol
"Someone hung a noose out on the Mall. What makes you think they wouldn't have tried this," he said of the possibility of taking hostages. Nance said his team also observed the use of flag poles and baseball bats as weapons Wednesday. "These guys came for action, to do damage," he said.
'He's hunting for people'
As for the man with the Tennessee patch photographed walking through the Senate Chamber: "He's hunting for people," Nance said.
He doesn't think he acted alone. The size of the restraints; the man's lack of a backpack; and the unlikelihood he was walking around with them in the open prior to Nance means, "They came from someone else.. someone else is there cooperating."
Images shared on Twitter by John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher for the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which studies the intersection of cyberspace, global security and human rights, show a second rioter donning a helmet, holding similar zip ties.
Douglas Korneski, the special agent in charge of the Memphis Field Office, coordinates FBI counter-terrorism efforts in Tennessee. He said Thursday evening the agency was working to identify the man with the Tennessee patch.
Friday evening, Korneski said the FBI was still working to identify him.
"I can confirm we are aware of that photo and are working with our state counterparts in any way we can to identify him," Korneski said Thursday. The agency has opened a tip line to receive information, photos and/or video at www.fbi.gov/USCapitol and 1-800-CALL-FBI.
"The FBI is aggressively working to identify any of the individuals who were involved in yesterday's events and is working very closely with the Department of Justice in any way we can to prosecute those individuals," Korneski said.
Despite all of the man's tactical gear and emblems, Nance said the man's appearance does not convey military experience to him, as he says the body armor and other gear documented in the photograph is not what a veteran with combat experience would be likely to select.
"He's got all the cool guy stuff. But he's not real," Nance said.
Nance also noted the man had pepper spray; and said Friday the weapon in a holster on the man's hip was a Taser, after ongoing research determined it was not a pistol as he initially thought Thursday.
Contibuting: Travis Dorman, Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel
Follow Sarah Macaraeg on Twitter @seramak.
FBI looking for man in Senate with zip ties, tactical gear; experts call him a rioter 'hunting for people'
Sarah Macaraeg, Memphis Commercial Appeal
https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-looking-man-senate-zip-031518048.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=2_04
Fri, January 8, 2021, 10:15 PM EST
Holding five pairs of zip-tie handcuffs, a man in head-to-toe paramilitary gear coursed through the upper level of the U.S. Senate Chamber Wednesday, captured by a Getty photographer as a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the nation's Capitol.
The man was not with security, who'd recently evacuated U.S. Senators and Vice President Mike Pence from the floor below. Experts say he was among the rioters who disrupted U.S. Congress's certification of Trump's election loss with violence, resulting in five fatalities to date.
With his identity unconfirmed by officials as of Thursday evening, the motives of the man whose tactical gear is adorned with symbols indicating support for military and police ? including a "thin blue line" in the shape of Tennessee ? cannot be verified.
Protesters enter the Senate Chamber at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Congress held a joint session to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. Trump supporters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital.
But for two counter-terrorism experts, the photographs bring to mind a recent plot hatched by Michigan extremist group the Wolverine Watchmen ? to take politicians hostage after storming the state capitol and subduing law enforcement with Molotov cocktails, according to sworn Federal Bureau of Investigation statements in court documents.
'Incited violence': Several House Democrats call for Trump to be impeached over DC riots
Extremists recently plotted to storm a state Capitol, take hostages
The Michigan extremists eventually shifted their focus, from a siege on the state capitol to kidnapping Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from her home. The FBI announced the arrest of 13 people, on federal and state charges, in October.
Ari Weil, deputy research director for the University of Chicago's Militant Propaganda Analysis team, said the zip ties seen at the Capitol Wednesday are "reminiscent" of the Michigan plot ? and suggest a desire to "conduct vigilante justice against members of Congress".
Malcolm Nance, a retired Navy counter-terrorism intelligence officer of 35 years and New York Times bestselling author of multiple books on national security, said he had the same thought as Weil when the zip-ties and tactical gear appeared on social media in the aftermath of the first breach of the building in more than 200 years.
"My greatest fear is that they use this mass of people to push through to breach the building ? then what we call a Capture and Kill team," Nance said.
As the executive director of the Terror Asymmetrics Project, a small think tank studying the strategies and tactics of radical ideologies, Nance said he watched the mob escalate in real-time as his team tracked four different live streams from separate sides of the Capitol Wednesday.
'A direct attack on democracy': World leaders react with shock after Trump supporters riot at US Capitol
"Someone hung a noose out on the Mall. What makes you think they wouldn't have tried this," he said of the possibility of taking hostages. Nance said his team also observed the use of flag poles and baseball bats as weapons Wednesday. "These guys came for action, to do damage," he said.
'He's hunting for people'
As for the man with the Tennessee patch photographed walking through the Senate Chamber: "He's hunting for people," Nance said.
He doesn't think he acted alone. The size of the restraints; the man's lack of a backpack; and the unlikelihood he was walking around with them in the open prior to Nance means, "They came from someone else.. someone else is there cooperating."
Images shared on Twitter by John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher for the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, which studies the intersection of cyberspace, global security and human rights, show a second rioter donning a helmet, holding similar zip ties.
Douglas Korneski, the special agent in charge of the Memphis Field Office, coordinates FBI counter-terrorism efforts in Tennessee. He said Thursday evening the agency was working to identify the man with the Tennessee patch.
Friday evening, Korneski said the FBI was still working to identify him.
"I can confirm we are aware of that photo and are working with our state counterparts in any way we can to identify him," Korneski said Thursday. The agency has opened a tip line to receive information, photos and/or video at www.fbi.gov/USCapitol and 1-800-CALL-FBI.
"The FBI is aggressively working to identify any of the individuals who were involved in yesterday's events and is working very closely with the Department of Justice in any way we can to prosecute those individuals," Korneski said.
Despite all of the man's tactical gear and emblems, Nance said the man's appearance does not convey military experience to him, as he says the body armor and other gear documented in the photograph is not what a veteran with combat experience would be likely to select.
"He's got all the cool guy stuff. But he's not real," Nance said.
Nance also noted the man had pepper spray; and said Friday the weapon in a holster on the man's hip was a Taser, after ongoing research determined it was not a pistol as he initially thought Thursday.
Contibuting: Travis Dorman, Knoxville (Tenn.) News Sentinel
Follow Sarah Macaraeg on Twitter @seramak.
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Man With Assault Rifle Charged With Threatening Pelosi, Officials Say
The Department of Justice said on Friday that Cleveland Grover Meredith Jr. was one of 13 people who had been charged in federal court after a violent pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/...action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
The Department of Justice said on Friday that Cleveland Grover Meredith Jr. was one of 13 people who had been charged in federal court after a violent pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/09/...action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
This Twitter thread is detailing a man's work to identify the terrorists. :0074
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1347764665821102084
https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1347764665821102084
USA TODAY
FBI looking for man in Senate with zip ties, tactical gear; experts call him a rioter 'hunting for people'
Sarah Macaraeg, Memphis Commercial Appeal
https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-looking-man-senate-zip-031518048.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&uh_test=2_04
Fri, January 8, 2021, 10:15 PM EST
Holding five pairs of zip-tie handcuffs, a man in head-to-toe paramilitary gear coursed through the upper level of the U.S. Senate Chamber Wednesday, captured by a Getty photographer as a mob of President Donald Trump's supporters stormed the nation's Capitol.
The man was not with security, who'd recently evacuated U.S. Senators and Vice President Mike Pence from the floor below. Experts say he was among the rioters who disrupted U.S. Congress's certification of Trump's election loss with violence, resulting in five fatalities to date.
With his identity unconfirmed by officials as of Thursday evening, the motives of the man whose tactical gear is adorned with symbols indicating support for military and police ? including a "thin blue line" in the shape of Tennessee ? cannot be verified.
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[FONT="]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: He's being named by others now, so I can confirm results of the investigation: Eric Munchel from Nashville TN is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ZipTieGuy?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ZipTieGuy</a> <br><br>His social media has now been locked down, but many of his posts are disturbing and include glorified violence. <a href="https://t.co/xachNOyPLf">pic.twitter.com/xachNOyPLf</a></p>— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) <a href="https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1347760352705052672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/FONT]
[FONT="]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING I can now confirm Male #2 w/ restraints is highly decorated combat vet & <a href="https://twitter.com/AF_Academy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AF_Academy</a> graduate Lt. Colonel. Ret. Larry Brock of Texas. <br><br>Releasing his name now after 24h of collaboration w/<a href="https://twitter.com/RonanFarrow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RonanFarrow</a> & his investigations team to confirm.<a href="https://t.co/nog9HI7DzX">https://t.co/nog9HI7DzX</a> <a href="https://t.co/ClHImsFucM">pic.twitter.com/ClHImsFucM</a></p>— John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) <a href="https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1347764665821102084?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 9, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/FONT]
