Michael Fanone, perhaps the most visible of the D.C. police officers injured while defending the Capitol on January 6, 2021, “testified Tuesday that during the insurrection he was tased, beaten, and at risk of being stripped of and killed with his own firearm,” AOL News reported on Wedne[...]
Posts Tagged ‘Insurrection’
July 27th, 2021 - 8:32 pm § in News Media, Politics
Police testify about Capitol riot; Republicans turn their backs
“Senate Republicans waved off police officers’ emotional accounts Tuesday of battling a violent mob of Donald Trump supporters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as a partisan escapade not worth paying attention to,” Huffington Post said on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 (read story here), with S[...]
Status report: 535 Capitol rioters arrested, 300 more sought
Samuel Lazar (photo), 35, of Ephrata, Pennsylvania, was arrested by the FBI on Monday, July 26, 2021. He’s accused of spraying police with chemical irritants during the Capitol riot. (Read story here, and more details here.) So far, the FBI has arrested 535 Capitol rioters and is looking for 3[...]
July 22nd, 2021 - 1:25 pm § in Politics
Pelosi is 110% right about the Jan. 6 inquiry
She won’t let Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Jim Banks (R-IN) participate, and she shouldn’t. GOP House leader Kevin McCarthy (R-TX) doesn’t like it. Most other Republicans don’t like it, either. You don’t expect them to. “This is deadly serious,” Pelosi said. “This [...]
July 21st, 2021 - 7:58 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
This Capitol rioter threatened to kill his family if they squealed on him
Guy Reffitt (photo), 48, of Wylie, Texas, is likely in big trouble. A member of the Three Percenters, a violent anti-government group, he messaged two other Capitol rioters that he was setting up a “security business” to get police weaponry. He showed up for the Capitol riot in militia[...]
July 21st, 2021 - 2:30 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Tears as Capitol rioter heads for prison
No crocodile tears, these. “The first person sentenced to hard time for … the January 6 Capitol riot was seen saying an emotional farewell to his girlfriend … after he admitted his guilt in court,” the U.K.-based tabloid Daily Mail reported on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. “[...]
Sanctions and accountability are necessary
It takes time for deliberative processes to play out, but signs point to judges cracking down on Trump lawyers who filed baseless lawsuits and lied to courts (read story here), and that’s a good and necessary thing. Rudy Guiliani, Sidney Powell, and Lin Wood, among others, should not come out [...]
July 15th, 2021 - 5:59 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
How to get your bail revoked in one easy step
“An accused Capitol rioter’s bail was revoked by a judge on Thursday after allegedly leaving lewd and rambling voicemails for his probation officer,” The Hill reported on Thursday, July 15, 2021. Read story here. The probation officer testified that Brandon Fellows, 27, who is unde[...]
Top general likened Trump to Hitler
Comparing with Hitler has long been taboo in American politics, and for good reasons. Nazism, the Holocaust, and World War 2 were uniquely evil. And when the Hitler analogy is used, it’s often misused, sometimes ludicrously as when rightwing provocateur Marjorie Taylor Greene recently [...]
The legal consequences of volunteering to be the butt of a joke
Back in 2018, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen made a fool of notorious Alabama politician Roy Moore. Cohen invited Moore to appear on his TV show. Moore took the bait. He even signed a contract agreeing, buried in so many obfuscating legal phrases, to be made a fool of. “During the segment, Cohen p[...]