The FBI has arrested a man seen in widely-circulated video (below) hurling a fire extinguisher at a group of Capitol Police officers during the Capitol insurrection, but authorities ruled him out as a suspect in the death of a Capitol Police officer beaten to death with a fire extinguisher. Differen[...]
Posts Tagged ‘2020 Election’
January 14th, 2021 - 12:46 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Rioter who threw fire extinguisher is caught, but he’s not the cop killer
January 13th, 2021 - 5:11 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Some (bad) arguments for not impeaching Trump
The following is extracted from an op-ed titled “Impeachment is not the answer” by newly-elected Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI, photo left, bio here) published in The Hill (here) on Wednesday, January 13, 2021, about an hour after the U.S. House of Representatives impeached President Trump for[...]
January 12th, 2021 - 6:37 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
“What are we supposed to do?”
That’s the question a pro-Trump rioter asked outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, as his fellow rioters disrupted the counting of electoral votes, and with ziptie handcuffs in their hands went looking for congressional leaders to lynch on the gallows they’d erected, an[...]
January 12th, 2021 - 11:28 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Smile for the camera, cop killer
“The FBI has released two photos of a suspect they want to question about the murder of US Capitol Police officer Brian Sicknick during last week’s violent riots,” the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail reported on Tuesday, January 12, 2021. Read story here. Note: This photo and video a[...]
January 11th, 2021 - 7:41 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
“Republicans’ Blind Support for Trump Is NOT About Judges and Tax Cuts but About Bigotry and Raw Power”
“by Neil H. Buchanan “With the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg having been so quickly followed by Republicans’ gleeful and immediate abuse of power politics to replace her, there has been a renewed effort to explain why the political party that Trump took over with great hostili[...]
January 11th, 2021 - 4:37 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Capitol cops may have aided rioters
Over a dozen Capitol Police officers are under scrutiny for possibly helping rioters breach Capitol Building security last Wednesday. “Early videos — one showing a Trump supporter taking a selfie with a police officer near an entrance to the Capitol and another appearing to show police l[...]
Seattle man charged with assaulting Capitol police officer
“A Seattle man was charged in federal court after police said he struck an officer during the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol building last Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s office confirmed,” KING 5 News, a Seattle TV station, reported on Monday, January 11, 2021. Mark Leffingwell, 5[...]
January 11th, 2021 - 2:07 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Airport arrests of D.C. rioters (video)
Rioters who assaulted the U.S. Capitol are easy pickings for police at airports as they try to return home. Here’s a sampling of those arrests. https://youtu.be/CegNO9waSSc Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
January 11th, 2021 - 2:03 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Rioter bawls in airport after being put on no-fly list (video)
“They called me a ****** terrorist!” Dude, turn yourself in to the police. There’s a room waiting for you in the D.C. jail. Otherwise, enjoy your walk home. Update (1/12/21): CNN reports the caption “was inaccurate: The airport incident was not about the Capitol insurrection.[...]
Zip-tie “protesters” arrested
During Wednesday’s violent attempt to overthrow the U.S. government, during which the insurrectionists erected a gallows outside the U.S. Capitol, and some of the invaders may have intended to abduct congressmen, two men were seen carrying bundles of zipties of the type used as handcuffs. Auth[...]