Evan Neumann, 48, formerly of Mill Valley, California, and now a resident of Belarus, is a wanted man (read story here).
He was indicted last summer for punching a cop and slamming a metal barricade into cops during the Capitol insurrection (read the FBI affidavit filed with his arrest warrant here). He also reportedly told police officers guarding the Capitol they were “pieces of s—” and “little bitches.”
Neumann, who was a handbag manufacturer in California, is rich. He owned a house there worth over a million dollars, and a private airplane. He’s a license pilot. Or perhaps we should say he was rich, because he left all that behind when he turned his back on the country that had treated him so well.
Now he’s asking a communist dictator for asylum from “political prosecution” by the American justice system.
Why Belarus? One, because he found Ukraine inhospitable (that country’s secret police were tailing him), and two, no U.S. extradition treaty.
To ingratiate himself to his hosts, one of the first things he did in Belarus was go on TV and participate in anti-U.S. propaganda (photo, left).
The irony of him referring to the cops he injured while attempting to overthrow our government as “pieces of s—” will not be lost on anyone, except perhaps hi9s fellow diehard Trumpers.
I’m thinking if Belarus wants him, they can keep him.