Capitol assault Jan 6th updates.ARRESTS.court cases

Look out MA!! Meet those who think the insurrection was fulfilled by 'heros'

Outrage erupts in MA town as ‘ignorant’ conservatives plan 'heroes of Jan 6' fundraiser for pro-Trump insurrectionists
John Wright
July 23, 2021

An extremist right-wing group in Massachusetts, Super Happy Fun America, plans to host a "heroes of Jan. 6" fundraiser on Saturday benefitting two people charged in the Capitol insurrection.

The "Refounding Fathers Festival" is expected to draw 300 people from about 20 groups, including pro-Trump clubs and other conservative organizations, according to Patch. Those in attendance will include the two beneficiaries, founding Super Happy Fun America member Sue Ianni, who is also a Natic Town Meeting member, and the group's vice president, Mark Sahady. Both face charges for participating in the insurrection.

"I think it's heroic to protest against a stolen election," Super Happy Fun America organizer John Hugo said.

In the wake of Patch's report, another group called Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Worcester is calling on the venue, Century Sportsman's Club in Auburn, to cancel the event. SURJ 's Lydia Proulx told the Telegram & Gazette that "Super Happy Fun America has a history of hosting events that are intentionally inflammatory and hateful toward 'marginalized folks,' including the Straight Pride Parade in Boston, which, she said, was 'a hilarious misnomer for essentially a Trump parade.'"

"We believe that Super Happy Fun America is a white supremacist organization because they are known to welcome and collaborate with prominent white nationalists in the United States, including the leader of the Proud Boys, the Nationalist Socialists Front and others," Proulx said. "They also echo their hateful ideology whether it's anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, heterosexism, homophobia."

MassEquality, a statewide LGBTQ advocacy group, is organizing a counterdemonstration outside the fundraiser.

Auburn Selectman Tristan LaLiberte wrote on Facebook that he was "appalled and disappointed" that the sportsman's club agreed to host the event.

"It is an embarrassment to our community that a group that honors those that led an insurrection against this country and that prides itself on being anti-LGBTQ thinks that they will be welcomed in Auburn," LaLiberte said. "Totally ignorant to their own irony, this group claims to be patriotic while hoisting those who stormed the nation's Capitol up on a pedestal."

Hugo responded by claiming that Showing Up for Racial Justice is "basically antifa."

"I knew that people on the left would lose their lunch over that," Hugo said, referring to the "Heroes of January 6th" reference. "But they have been pushing a fake narrative saying that this is the worst thing to happen in our country since the Civil War. I mean, give me a break. On the left, they're pushing back against all of these efforts to tighten up the election laws just to present fraud and they're calling it Jim Crow. That's ridiculous.

"I believe it's heroic to go to the seat of government to challenge a fraudulent election," he added. "This is, in my opinion, the biggest scandal in American history, this stolen election."

Representatives from the Century Sportsman's Club haven't commented on the controversy, but Hugo claims they plan to "stick to their guns" and go though with the event.

www.rawstory.com/heroes-of-jan-6-fundraising-event/

A lot about the Oath Keepers
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When members of the far-right militia network known as the Oath Keepers stormed the US Capitol on January 6, they were supposed to be under the command of a 37-year-old Black man from a poor neighborhood in Indianapolis—who says he doesn’t support Donald Trump. That man is Michael Simmons, an Army veteran who served in the Iraq War, and who currently faces the possibility of federal charges for his actions on January 6.

Until now, Simmons has not been publicly identified for his role at the Capitol. During multiple phone interviews in recent weeks with Mother Jones, Simmons confirmed he is “Person Ten” in a sweeping federal conspiracy case, an unindicted co-conspirator described by prosecutors in court filings as the leader of operations for a group of Oath Keepers who descended on Washington that day. So far, 17 of the group’s members have been charged with plotting to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s election victory, among other alleged crimes. Four have pleaded guilty, including Caleb Berry, an Oath Keeper from Florida, who in a July 20 plea hearing admitted that he and his co-conspirators “intended” to hinder Congress by “intimidating and coercing government personnel.”

Court filings detail phone calls and messages that Simmons exchanged with Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and other group members in the minutes before multiple Oath Keepers unlawfully entered and occupied the Capitol building amid the invading pro-Trump mob. Simmons has been questioned by FBI agents and says he did nothing illegal and has nothing to hide. His actions on January 6 included meeting up just outside the Capitol, alongside Rhodes, with 11 Oath Keepers who participated in the siege. Rhodes has also spoken with the FBI and has not been charged, though he said he expects to be arrested. There is no indication either Simmons or Rhodes entered the Capitol Building. Both deny doing so.

Mother Jones reached Simmons and verified his identity after anonymous online researchers who call themselves “Capitol Terrorists Exposers” provided information about him. Simmons voiced no regret for his involvement with members of a group who helped storm Congress. He defended his own actions, minimized the events of that day and blamed the media for overhyping the assault on the Capitol. “What happened was fucked up,” he said. “It was wrong, but ‘insurrection’ is a bit much.”

According to the Justice Department, participants in the January 6 mob assaulted approximately 140 police officers as well as members of the media and caused $1.5 million in damages to Congress. Some threatened to murder House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Mike Pence. Five people who were at the Capitol died on or shortly after January 6. The siege marked the first time in US history that a mob, driven by lies, attempted to violently prevent the peaceful transition of power in Washington.

Simmons also goes by the name Michael Greene (he declined to explain why) and said that he is a former employee of Blackwater, the infamous private security company founded by Erik Prince, a claim Mother Jones was unable to verify. He insisted that his involvement with the Oath Keepers is purely professional and not political. He said he went to Washington as as a security expert, helping to guard longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone and others for pay. He said his experience in the military and his life “as a Black man from a low-income neighborhood” underwrite his disinterest in politics. “It’s exactly the same whoever’s in office,” he said, which is why he said he supports neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump.

www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/07/oath-keepers-january-6-capitol-insurrection-michael-simmons-person-ten/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-07-26-2021

While lot more at link...

Oh, sorry ... HIs church group gave him up to the FBI!

Glenn Allen Brooks of Huntington Beach, California has been charged with disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, along with disorderly conduct and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

In the criminal complaint against Brooks, the FBI explained how he was identified.

"On or about January 30, 2021, the FBI received an electronic tip from Witness #1, who stated that a member of his/her church prayer text group, Glenn Brooks, boasted of his active participation in the January 6, 2021, events at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. Witness #1 also stated that Brooks sent photos of his attendance at the Capitol to the church text group that included other people at the riots/protest and a selfie photo of himself inside the Capitol," an FBI special agent attested.

During a follow up interview, the witness provided Brooks' address, phone number and email address. The special agent says the Bureau corroborated the information the witness provided.

The witness also provide a photo of Brooks and said a selfie photo taken inside the Capitol also depicted Brooks.

www.rawstory.com/insurrectionists/

DC Metro police officer was found dead by suicide in his home....

Updated Aug 2, 2021, 03:21pm EDT
TOPLINE A third police officer who responded to January’s riot at the U.S. Capitol building died by suicide last week, the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department said Monday.

We are grieving as a Department as our thoughts and prayers are with Officer Hashida’s family and friends,” MPD said in a statement.

www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2021/08/02/3rd-police-officer-who-responded-to-capitol-riot-dies-by-suicide/

2 more plead guilty will face sentencing Aug... And Sept .


MacFarlane then broke down the guilty plea of MAGA rioter Robert Reeder.

"He is pleading guilty to the misdemeanor we've seen so many others plea to so far: unlawful picketing and parading," he said. "Before his case, everybody that pleaded guilty has avoided prison, but today the feds recommended two months prison time for him for a few reasons. They said he seemed proud of what he did January 6th, even after the insurrection, and it seems like the feds have had enough, Nicolle. They said in their sentencing memo there has to be a message of deterrence to prevent future mobs and future insurrections."

www.rawstory.com/capitol-rioter-guilty-plea/

Oh no not me, I wasn't in the Capitol...

'Cowboys for Trump' founder offered plea deal for invading the Capitol: report
Matthew Chapman
August 09, 2021

On Monday, The Detroit News reported that federal prosecutors have offered a confidential Capitol riot plea agreement to Couy Griffin, a commissioner of Otero County, New Mexico and the founder of "Cowboys for Trump."

"The county commissioner from New Mexico still denies federal charges that he knowingly entering barricaded areas of the Capitol grounds with the intent of disrupting government as Congress considered the 2020 Electoral College results," said the report. "Griffin reached an outside terrace of the Capitol without entering the building and used a bullhorn to try to lead a tumultuous crowd in prayer. He was arrested after his return to Washington to oppose President Joe Biden's inauguration."

Griffin has reportedly been one of the more difficult Capitol riot suspects in jail, having to be put in isolation after he refused to take a COVID-19 test.

A federal judge appointed by former President Donald Trump rejected an argument from Griffin that his prosecution was retaliation for his political beliefs, allowing the trial to move forward.

www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-plea-deal/

Three anti-vaxxers, assaulters from Jan 6th are now delaying their hearings which will make more of a mess in the courts!

In March this proud boy claimed he was having difficulties paying his bills... He has received an over $900,000 windfall!?!
Another Kavanaugh like payment?!?!?!

Whole boatload arrested for assaulting a police officer....

State Department appointee Federico Klein was charged with six counts of assaulting police after federal investigators identified him in bodycam video pushing to the front of a crowd in the Capitol tunnel and trying to grab an officer's riot shield before picking up a large metal pole, reported WUSA-TV.

"We need fresh people," Klein says in the video, according to investigators.
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Two previously uncharged men, David Mehaffie, of Kettering, Ohio, and Steven Cappuccio, of Texas, were added to the government's case against the mob of Trump supporters who attacked police in the tunnels beneath the Capitol, including D.C. police officer Daniel Hodges, who pinned against a door frame by rioters.

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Six other men -- David Lee Judd, Patrick McCaughey III, Robert Morss, Christopher Joseph Quaglin, Geoffrey William Sills and Tristan Chandler Stevens -- were also charged in the newly unsealed indictment.

McCaughey, of Connecticut, is charged with using a stolen riot shield to crush Hodges against the doorframe, and Morss, a substitute teacher from Pennsylvania and former U.S. Army Ranger, was charged with leading and assault on police and organizing support from other rioters.

Each of these defendants was an active participant in the first wave of rioters to enter the tunnel between 2:40 and 3:18 p.m.," the Justice Department said in a filing last month. "Moreover, several of the defendants, including Mr. Klein, committed additional crimes on the first landing of the Lower West Terrace before reaching the tunnel for the first time."

www.rawstory.com/federico-klein-2654658377/

Another snowflake not happy with his electronic ankle bracelet. He want to walk his dog and take care of his mom... Consequences...

Daniel Egtvedt is a politically connected, Trump-loving salesman from Maryland who posted about the QAnon conspiracy movement prior to the Capitol insurrection, according to the Daily Beast, which described his actions on Jan. 6 as a "nightmare for police." According to a criminal complaint, Egtvedt was seen in photos and videos pushing through a line of Capitol police officers to storm the building before interacting bizarrely with several cops, including screaming at one to "shoot me."

He clashed with police at least three times and screamed into a fellow rioter's livestream, "We're not backing away; this is our house!"

Egtvedt, who's charged with nine felony and misdemeanor counts in connection with the insurrection, was released from jail in April with strict conditions. In a motion filed Aug. 8, his attorneys asked a judge to "remove the condition of electronic location monitoring."


www.rawstory.com/capitol-rioter-daniel-egtvedt/

The amount of traffic on this web site became alarming and was reported to FBI and CPD..

DC website about Capitol's underground tunnel maps exploded with traffic days before Jan 6 attack: report
Sarah K. Burris
August 17, 2021

NBC News reporter Scott MacFarlane reported Tuesday that a website maintained by a former Capitol intern about the underground tunnels beneath the U.S. Capitol exploded with web traffic the day prior to the attack on the building.

Speaking to NBC Washington, MacFarlane explained that Elliot Carter, who runs the website WashingtonTunnels.com, was worried that people were trying to find escape routes or entry points to the building during the attack or for the attack. His concern made its way to leadership in the U.S. Capitol Police.

"These people were suddenly obsessed with the Capitol building," Carter said.

Carter's website goes through the history and updated information on the underground tunnels and pipe systems as part of the city planning for Washington, D.C. For local D.C. history buffs and infrastructure nerds, Carter's website is a well-researched collection of information that includes maps and details about the D.C. metro system, the underground shops of Dupont Circle and the water and sewer delivery for the nation's capitol.

Those maps turned out to be a key piece of information that saw a lot of clicks ahead of the attack.

Capitol Hill has underground tunnels that connect the main building to the House and Senate office buildings, the visitor's center and the Library of Congress. It was originally built by the Studebaker Company in 1909, the Architect of the Capitol's website says. It's mostly used as a quick back-and-forth for members who need to get to cast votes on the floor and back to their offices for meetings.

www.rawstory.com/capitol-tunnel-map-traffic-insurrection/