Thursday Election Updates

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Personally, and given the evidence available, the security in DC looks like it is prepared more for an Antifa crowd than a MAGA crowd....

The evidence of having had to charge so many MAGA rioters, apparently. ; )

except they are mostly turning out to be antifa, but don't let facts get in your way (like they ever have).

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[canpakes]

except they are mostly turning out to be antifa, but don't let facts get in your way (like they ever have).

Nope. You’ve got one guy that is a member of a ‘leftist’ organization who was egging them on, and about 160 MAGAheads up on charges.

That’s what we’ve got.

I’m sure that you’ll be telling me next about, say, Jake Angelli being ‘antifa’, because you are too emotionally stunted to converse about the facts truthfully. So, go for it. I love comedy.
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Because for some dim bulbs, having the Guard on duty means that the ‘election was stolen’, as opposed to recognizing very real threats:

Police in Washington, D.C., on Friday arrested a Virginia man who allegedly tried to pass through a security checkpoint with an "unauthorized" inauguration credential, unregistered handguns and more than 500 rounds of ammunition, according to officials.

Wesley Allen Beeler, 31, of Front Royal, Virginia, was arrested shortly after 6:30 p.m. Friday after police found two unregistered Glock 9mm handguns, 509 rounds of 9mm ammunition, 21 12-gauge shotgun shells, and one 17-round Glock 17 magazine, all in his truck, according to a police report. 

At the time of arrest 1 mile northeast of the Capitol building, Beeler was accused of illegally carrying a concealed weapon outside of a home or business, possession of an unregistered firearm, possession of unregistered ammunition, unlawful possession of ammunition and possession of a large capacity ammunition feeding device.

Beeler drove up to a security checkpoint and had window decals on his truck reading "Assault Life" and "If they come for your guns, give 'em your bullets first," according to an affidavit filed in D.C. Superior Court. He handed officers an "unauthorized" inauguration credential for the upcoming swearing in of President-elect Joe Biden.

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“But ... but ... anteeeefaahhh ..!!1!”

Anthime Joseph Gionet, a far-right media personality nicknamed “Baked Alaska” who is known for livestreaming himself participating in illegal activity, was arrested by the F.B.I. on Friday and accused of illegally storming the Capitol during the attack on the building by President Trump’s supporters last week.

Mr. Gionet, who has been banned from Twitter and YouTube for his content, livestreamed himself in the mob on DLive, a streaming service becoming more popular after a mass exodus of right-wing figures from more mainstream platforms. He posted a video that showed supporters of Mr. Trump taking selfies with officers in the Capitol who calmly asked them to leave the premises. The video showed the Trump supporters talking among themselves, laughing, and telling the officers and each other: “This is only the beginning.”

Mr. Gionet was arrested in Houston on Friday, according to the Justice Department’s website, and charged with two federal crimes. In a court filing, Nicole Miller, an F.B.I. agent, said Mr. Gionet had recorded a 27-minute video in which he appeared to chant, “Patriots are in control,” and said, “We are in the Capitol building, 1776 will commence again.”

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Magat arrested:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ested.html

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Magat arrested:

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/nati ... c3313b6191

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Magats arrested:

https://www.usatoday.com/storytelling/c ... b-arrests/

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But ... but ...

U.S. prosecutors investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump have identified nearly 300 individuals suspected of involvement in the violent rampage that left five people dead, officials announced Friday.

The number of suspects under investigation – 275 as of Friday morning – was expected to top 300 by the end of the day and exponentially grow in the coming days, said Michael Sherwin, acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

The riots erupted last Wednesday as hundreds of Trump supporters, enraged over the president’s loss in the Nov. 3 election, stormed the Capitol complex where lawmakers were meeting to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin speaks during a news conference Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021, in Washington. Federal prosecutors…
FILE - Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin speaks during a news conference, Jan. 12, 2021, in Washington.
The rioters, some of them members of far-right groups, ransacked offices and clashed with police officers inside the building. One police officer was killed in the melee.

Now, the FBI is leading a nationwide manhunt to track down the perpetrators, and officials say they’re determined to bring all those responsible for the violence to justice. Complicating their work, all but a handful of the rioters were allowed to walk away from the Capitol on the day of the riots and are believed to have traveled back to their home states.

To date, Sherwin told reporters during a press call, prosecutors have filed 98 criminal cases in connection with the rioting, the majority of them felony offenses.

Authorities in some cases relied initially on misdemeanor charges to arrest the rioters, but “as the investigation continues, as the days and weeks progress, we're looking at more significant federal felony charges,” Sherwin said.

The felony charges range from assault on a law enforcement officer to seditious conspiracy, a charge that carries up to 20 years in prison.

Steven D'Antuono, assistant FBI director for the Washington field office, said more than 100 suspects have been taken into custody across the country. The FBI made more than 40 of those arrests, he said.

In the nine days since the attack, the FBI has received more than 140,000 videos and photographs of the riots from the public, D'Antuono said, adding that the tips have proved critical in identifying some of the culprits.

“We have methodically followed all the leads to identify those responsible and hold them accountable,” D'Antuono said.

Among the recently charged defendants, Sherwin cited Peter Francis Stager, an Arkansas man who was captured on video beating a police officer with a flagpole inside the Capitol. Stager was charged Thursday with one count of obstructing, impeding and interfering with a police officer during a civil disorder.

“I think that's really the height of hypocrisy, that [he] was beating a [Metropolitan Police Department] officer with a flagpole and at the other end of that flagpole was attached the American flag,” Sherwin said.

Several current and former members of law enforcement and the military have also been arrested on charges of rioting at the Capitol. On Wednesday, Jacob Fracker and Thomas Robertson –- two off-duty officers from Rocky Mount, Virginia, who allegedly traveled 200 miles to take part in the event –- were arrested and charged in federal court.

Also on Wednesday, Robert Sanford, a retired Pennsylvania firefighter who was filmed throwing a fire extinguisher at three police officers guarding the Capitol, was arrested on multiple federal charges, including assaulting a law enforcement officer.

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Police have seized an alarming number of guns from President Trump's supporters who descended on Washington, D.C., last week and stormed the Capitol in an effort to stop Congress's certification of the 2020 election results.

The details revealed in court documents over the past week paint a disturbing picture indicating that some of the demonstrators flocked to the Capitol prepared to carry out violence. The cases, likely only the beginning of a lengthy federal investigation, also suggest that the riot that overran the halls of Congress and left five people dead could have been much worse.

One man, Lonnie Coffman, is facing multiple weapons charges after police say they found him in possession of five guns, eleven Molotov cocktails, a crossbow, smoke bombs and a stun gun.

Coffman was arrested only because police were investigating pipe bombs that were discovered near the Capitol at the Republican Party and Democratic Party headquarters and noticed one of the guns in his truck while securing the area.

Authorities have said they don't believe Coffman was behind the pipe bombs and have yet to identify a suspect.

In charging documents filed with the federal district court in D.C., police said they searched Coffman’s truck while sweeping the areas around the pipe bombs, finding the weapons along with hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a list of public officials and journalists that identified them as “good guys” and “bad guys.”

“In the end, this is a defendant with access to firearms and numerous other lethal weapons, dangerous incendiary mixtures creating napalm, who appears to have been motivated to conduct violence against our elected representatives,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing.

“The defendant brought these weapons to the immediate vicinity of the U.S. Capitol Building, and traveled to the area with two firearms on his person. The amount of weapons suggests an intent to provide them to others, as no one person could reasonably use so many at once,” they added.

A man named Cleveland Meredith, who traveled from Colorado in order to participate in the protests at the Capitol, was arrested at his hotel in D.C. last week after law enforcement received a tip that he had threatened to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.). Meredith told investigators that he mistakenly arrived in the District a day after the riot.

The FBI said in court documents that it found a handgun, an assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in Meredith’s trailer and text messages on his phone in which he talked about killing Pelosi and told a friend “headed to DC with a crap ton of 5.56 armor piercing ammo [purple devil emoji].”

Prosecutors have also charged two men who were seen in social media images carrying plastic flex cuffs, which are plastic restraints often used by military and law enforcement when detaining groups of people.

One of those men could be seen sporting what appeared to be a weapon in a holster on his hip in pictures of him inside the Capitol. The day of the riots, FBI identified the man as Eric Munchel, of Nashville, Tenn., and arrested him at his hotel in D.C. He was carrying a Taser in a holster when he was arrested, which he told investigators was for protection, according to an affidavit from an FBI agent.

Another man, Christopher Alberts of Maryland, was arrested on the Capitol grounds as police were clearing the building when an officer noticed that he was carrying a pistol.
The defendants’ attorneys did not respond when asked for comment.