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    An Arkansas man who was photographed during the Jan. 6 riot with his feet on a desk in then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office, was found guilty on all counts Monday after brief jury deliberations.

    Richard Barnett faced eight charges stemming from the insurrection, including theft of government property. He said repeatedly in court last week that he regretted what transpired at the Capitol that day but did not consider his actions illegal.

    Barnett appears in images from the riot reclining in a chair in the speaker's office, with his feet propped up, and what the government referred to as a “stun device” tucked in his pants. Before leaving Pelosi’s office, Barnett took an envelope that he later displayed for cameras outside the Capitol.





    In court Friday, before the case was handed to the jury, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Gordon pored over Barnett’s version of Jan. 6 and poked holes in his testimony, visibly angering Barnett.

    Barnett, who a day earlier had said he would apologize to Pelosi, D-Calif., if she were in court, admitted during cross-examination that when a police officer told him he needed to leave her office he replied: “You need to give up communism.”

    Barnett also admitted to telling an officer in the Capitol: “We’re in a war. You need to pick a side. Don’t be on the wrong side or you’re going to get hurt.”

    Defending his actions, Barnett said he didn't believe he had violated the law on Jan. 6.

    “I made some bad mistakes and I regret them but I don’t think I broke the law,” Barnett said Friday. “I feel like a f------ idiot.”
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    A North Carolina man indicted for allegedly teaching a government informant how to make explosive devices for the purpose of killing law enforcement officers is scheduled to face trial next month after he attempted — and failed — to get charges against him tossed.

    U.S. District Court Judge James C. Dever III rejected Christopher "Kit" Arthur's motion for dismissal last week that argues he has a First Amendment right to teach people how to make explosive devices.

    Dever's order clears the way for Arthur's case to go to trial, with jury selection set to begin on Feb. 28. If convicted, Arthur could face up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

    A retired Army scout and former sheriff's deputy in Mount Olive, N.C., Arthur published manuals and YouTube videos that he promoted as teaching "wartime tactics to civilians for civil defense purposes," while also providing consulting services to specific clients.

    Dever wrote in his order that Arthur "provided the CHS with a strategy to engage and kill ATF agents, by trapping them in a 'fatal funnel.'"

    The order quoted Arthur as instructing the confidential government informant: "What these dumbasses are going to do, they're going to hunker down right behind that damn armored vehicle and the other guys are going to run. And that's when you start lobbing your grenades on them with your freaking shotty."

    Arthur's prosecution highlights a growing concern, particularly in the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, about violent threats to law enforcement coming from former or actively employed members of the profession.

    More than 1 in 10 people charged in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol are former or current law enforcement officers or military veterans, according to recent USA Today report. In September, a retired New York police officer was sentenced to 10 years for assaulting a law enforcement officer with a deadly and dangerous weapon during the attack.

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    Video of Paul Pelosi attack made public

    Video footage of the attack on Paul Pelosi, the husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was made public on Friday.

    The big picture: The move comes after a coalition of 13 news organizations had pushed for the release of evidence in the case of David DePape, the suspect accused of attacking Paul Pelosi, NBC News reported.


    • On Wednesday, San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Stephen Murphy ruled that the footage could be released, after prosecutors had refused to release the evidence.


    Driving the news: The footage was expected to be comprised of video recorded by the body cameras worn by the two police officers who responded to the attack at the Pelosi home, per the New York Times.


    • Graphic footage shared by NBC Bay Area reporter Bigad Shaban shows a front door and a suspect, whom police have identified as DePape, holding Paul Pelosi's arm. The suspect can be seen raising a hammer and striking Pelosi repeatedly.
    • The suspect appears to throw himself over Pelosi's body until police subdue him a few seconds later. Pelosi remains laying on the ground immobile while officers appear to restrain the suspect.


    Catch up quick: Pelosi underwent surgery for a skull fracture and serious injuries to his right arm and hands after being attacked with a hammer.


    • Before attacking Pelosi with a hammer in front of police officers, DePape allegedly demanded to know the location of Nancy Pelosi, who was not in San Francisco at the time of the attack. DePape also allegedly made racist remarks and promoted QAnon-related conspiracy theories online.
    • DePape was charged by the state of California with attempted murder, burglary and elder abuse, as well as federal charges of assault of an immediate family member of a U.S. official and attempted kidnapping of a U.S. official.




    The big picture: Nancy Pelosi previously said the attack on her husband underscores the danger that all members of Congress are facing. "Paul was not the target, but he's paying the price," she said in a CNN interview in November.


    • She told reporters Friday that she hasn't heard the 911 call nor watched the footage.
    • "I have not seen the break-in and I have absolutely no intention of seeing the deadly assault on my husband’s life," Pelosi said. "I won’t be making any more statements about this case."

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    A federal judge sentenced a man to 80 months in prison for using pepper spray during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot against officer Brian Sicknick, who died hours later of natural causes.

    Dozens of Sicknick’s former colleagues gathered in D.C.’s federal courthouse on Friday as U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan handed down Julian Khater’s sentence.

    Khater pleaded guilty to two counts of assaulting law enforcement with a dangerous weapon.

    Court documents show that Khater sprayed Sicknick and another officer with a can of hand-held pepper spray. Khater also sprayed U.S. Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, who appeared publicly before the House Jan. 6 committee in June and spoke at Friday’s sentencing.

    “You are center stage in our recurring nightmare,” said Gladys Sicknick, the officer’s mother.

    Sicknick was hospitalized the evening of the riot and died the following day. The medical examiner determined it was from two strokes caused by a blot clot, deeming it natural causes, while noting that “all that transpired played a role in his condition.”

    “I felt like the absolute worst kind of officer,” Edwards said at Friday’s sentencing. “Someone who couldn’t help their friend.”

    The government had asked the judge to sentence Khater to 90 months in prison, while Khater’s attorneys asked for the nearly two years he already spent in jail to satisfy his sentence.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    A federal judge sentenced a man to 80 months in prison for using pepper spray during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot against officer Brian Sicknick, who died hours later of natural causes.
    What a bunch of morons. They went to jail , and the snake oil salesman went to Florida.

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    Man Who Called in Fake Bomb Threat to Library of Congress Pleads Guilty

    The North Carolina man accused of threatening to set off a bomb at the Library of Congress — apparently while under the influence of what turned out to be a dangerous combination of prescription psychiatric drugs — has pleaded guilty to a felony.

    Floyd Ray Roseberry, 51, admitted Friday to making a threat to use explosive materials in connection with his arrest in August 2021, when he drove his black Chevrolet pickup truck to a building at the Library of Congress and live-streaming threatening statements.

    “Clear the block, clear the block,” he said, according to charging documents. “Joe Biden I’m not hurting nobody, but I think these flags need to go to half-staff brotha.'”

    “I got two and a half pounds of tannerite,” Roseberry also said, referring to a type of incendiary explosive. “Go ahead and get ‘em all in the building, but I’m telling you Biden, if these windows pop this bomb goes and there’s five of ‘em here.”

    Roseberry was eventually taken into custody after an hours-long standoff. In the end, there was no bomb.

    Contreras, a Barack Obama appointee, reportedly set a tentative sentencing date for the week of June 12. He said he wanted to give investigators enough time to assess Roseberry’s “serious claims of diminished capacity,” according to reports.

    Roseberry will be allowed to remain on home confinement pending sentencing.

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    A grand jury in New Mexico indicted former state Republican candidate Solomon Peña on 14 criminal charges related to shootings at the offices and homes of elected Democratic officials, the Bernalillo County District Attorney's office announced Monday.

    Driving the news: Albuquerque police arrested Peña on Jan. 16 and he's in jail ahead of a trial after being accused of conspiring with and paying four other men to shoot at the homes of two county commissioners and two state legislators, per CNN.

    Zoom in: The jury indicted him on charges including three counts of criminal solicitation to commit shooting at a dwelling or occupied building and two of conspiracy to commit a shooting at a dwelling or occupied building, according to a statement from the district attorney's office.


    • Other charges include one count of shooting at a dwelling or occupied building and two of transportation or possession of a firearm or destructive device.


    The big picture: Peña unsuccessfully ran as a candidate for the House District 14 seat in the South Valley in the last state elections.

    What they're saying: Representatives for Peña could not be immediately reached for comment, but his attorney Roberta Yurcic told CBS News earlier this month they looked forward to "a full and fair investigation of these claims."


    • "At this point, the charges against Mr. Peña are merely accusations that have not yet been tested by the full rigor of the judicial process. Mr. Peña is presumed innocent of the charges against him," Yurcic said.
    • "I plan to fully defend Mr. Peña and fiercely safeguard his rights throughout this process."

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    A Jan. 6 defendant who sprayed a chemical irritant at about 15 police officers — and later bragged about it in a video interview — was sentenced Wednesday to 68 months in prison. This is one of the stiffest Jan. 6 sentences handed down to date.

    Daniel Caldwell, a 51-year-old Marine Corps veteran, delivered a tearful apology in court to the officers he sprayed, expressing remorse for his actions that day and pleading with U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly for mercy.

    But Kollar-Kotelly repeatedly described Caldwell as an “insurrectionist” and noted that his deployment of chemical spray at officers created such an intense cloud that it nearly broke the depleted police line by itself. Though no officers directly attributed their injuries that day to Caldwell’s actions, Kollar-Kotelly said his actions undoubtedly contributed to their physical and psychological trauma.

    “You’re entitled to your political views but not to an insurrection,” the judge said. “You were an insurrectionist.”

    Caldwell has remained in pretrial custody since Feb. 10, 2021 — 721 days, he noted — and was one of the earliest charged with a direct assault on police that day.

    But Caldwell’s hearing was most notable for the extensive expression of remorse, delivered almost entirely through tears, to a nearly empty courtroom.

    “I must face my actions head on,” he said, before delivering a voluminous apology to the officers he attacked. “I hope that you and our country never have to face another day like January 6th.”

    Caldwell said he spent the days immediately after the attack rationalizing what he did and looking for validation from family, friends and his attorney. He said he now looks back at his actions and “it literally floors me.”

    He described himself as “ashamed” and “embarrassed” about his conduct and described efforts to better himself while in custody, reading self-help books and reflecting on how he became a catalyst of violence that day.

    “I clearly let my emotions take control,” he said. “Being a Marine, I should have known better. … I wish I could take it back, but I can’t.”

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    A Virginia man was sentenced today for destroying media equipment and other illegal conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election.

    Joshua Dillon Haynes, 40, of Covington, Virginia, was sentenced to 32 months in prison. Haynes pleaded guilty on October 28, 2022, in the District of Columbia, to obstruction of an official proceeding and destruction of property. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya S. Chutkan ordered restitution, to be determined at a future date, and 36 months of supervised release.

    According to court documents, on Jan. 6, 2021, at about 2:30 p.m., Haynes was illegally on restricted grounds, part of a mob that gathered on the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol, outside the East Rotunda Doors. About 20 minutes later, he followed a mob of rioters and entered the Capitol Building through the Senate Wing Door. He remained there until approximately 3:12 p.m., walking in areas including the Crypt and inside the office of a U.S. Senator.

    While outside the building, Haynes assisted two other individuals in forcibly removing an air conditioning unit from a building outside the Capitol and dropped the unit to the ground.

    At about 4:50 p.m., a large crowd of rioters made its way to and past a media staging area that was set up outside the northeast corner of the Capitol, on the grounds. Media members were forced to flee the area before they could recover their cameras and associated equipment. Numerous members of the crowd destroyed equipment, including cameras, tripods, and remote broadcasting equipment. At about 5 p.m., Haynes picked up and slammed down multiple pieces of equipment that belonged to media outlets.

    Later Jan. 6, after the equipment at the media staging area was destroyed, Haynes sent an associate a text message saying, “broke lotsa stuff.” He then sent an image with the message, “We attacked the CNN reporters and the fake news and destroyed tens of thousands of dollars of their video and television equipment.” He also sent this message to the same associate, “I want to get busted for tearing up the nations capital and the fake news.”

    Haynes was arrested on July 1, 2021, in Covington, Virginia.

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    Sarah Clendaniel & Brandon Russell: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

    • DOJ charges 2 over alleged "racially motivated" plot to attack power stations


    The Department of Justice on Monday charged two people over an alleged plot to attack multiple energy facilities in the Baltimore, Maryland, area.

    Driving the news: Sarah Beth Clendaniel of Catonsville, Maryland, and Brandon Clint Russell of Orlando, Florida, were arrested for conspiring to attack multiple electrical substations aiming to "completely destroy" Baltimore, the DOJ said in a press conference.


    • Russell founded the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen, which has attempted to use violent attacks to set off a race war in the U.S., according to the Washington Post.
    • The DOJ and FBI believe their extremist views and planned actions were "racially or ethnically motivated."


    What they're saying: "These plans were stopped thanks to the swift action and collaboration of our federal, state and local law enforcement partners," Erek Barron, U.S. attorney for the District of Maryland, said Monday.


    • Thomas Sobocinski, a top FBI official, said at the press conference Russell allegedly provided instructions and location information related to the planned attack on the energy facilities, describing it "the greatest thing somebody can do."
    • Sobocinski said Clendaniel allegedly said she was "determined" to carry out the attacks, saying, "It would lay this city to waste."


    The big picture: The arrests come after a series of other attacks on power infrastructure servicing other towns around the country.



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    Crusius faces life in prison on the federal charges. He faces the death penalty on state charges.




    A Texas man accused of targeting Latinos during a 2019 massacre of 23 people at an El Paso Walmart store pleaded guilty on Wednesday to federal hate crimes, according to local media reports.

    Patrick Crusius changed his plea to guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas after federal prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty.

    Crusius faces life in prison on the federal charges. He faces the death penalty on state charges.

    A Texas judge last year put off a state trial in the case, saying that determining how to proceed would be affected by the decision from federal prosecutors on whether they would seek capital punishment. The Texas court issued a gag order that prevents prosecutors, defense lawyers, victims and family members from discussing the case.

    Federal prosecutors say Crusius drove 11 hours to El Paso, on the U.S. border with Mexico, from his home in a suburb near Dallas, on Aug. 3, 2019, and fired at shoppers with an AK-47-style rifle inside the Walmart store. He surrendered to officers who confronted him nearby.

    A racist manifesto that prosecutors say Crusius posted online on a now-defunct message board called 8chan, often used by extremists, said the attack was "a response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas."

    Crusius pleaded not guilty in 2020 to 90 federal hate crime charges. Proceedings were delayed while prosecutors decided whether to pursue the death penalty.

    In 2020, his lawyers argued that Crusius, then 21, had been diagnosed with severe, lifelong neurological and mental disabilities and should not face execution if convicted.


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    Convicted Jan. 6 Capitol rioter caught secretly filming woman undressing at tanning salon owned by his father

    An Iowa father who recently pleaded guilty to interfering with police during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has found himself once again embroiled in scandal for allegedly using his cell phone to surreptitiously record a woman as she was changing clothes at a tanning salon. Daryl Eugene Johnson, 52, was taken into custody late last month and charged with one count of invasion of privacy for the purpose of arousing or gratifying a sexual desire and one count of interference with official acts, court records show.

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    A man who carried a Confederate battle flag through the halls of the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, was sentenced to three years in prison on Thursday.




    Kevin Seefried was found guilty last summer on one felony of obstructing an official proceeding and four misdemeanors connected to his participation on Jan. 6.

    “I never should’ve entered,” a tearful Seefried said at Thursday’s sentencing.

    Federal prosecutors had asked the judge for a 70-month sentence, while Seefried’s attorneys asked for no more than one year and one day.

    Judge Trevor McFadden, who sits in D.C.’s federal trial court and was nominated by former President Trump, called Seefried’s conduct “humiliating” and said he had every reason to know he shouldn’t be there.

    “Bringing the Confederate flag into one of our nation’s most sacred halls was outrageous,” McFadden said.

    Seefried’s attorneys argued that he did not consider “the logic of those who see the flag as a symbol of American racism.”

    “I never wanted to send a message of hate,” Seefried told the judge.

    McFadden also sentenced Seefried to one year of supervised release and $2,000 in restitution.

    The judge referenced Attorney General Merrick Garland’s remarks last year that the Justice Department would not make “one rule for Democrats and another for Republicans,” criticizing a difference in how the government prosecuted participants in Black Lives Matter demonstrations in Portland in the summer of 2020.

    Seefried’s attorneys had referenced the Portland cases in arguing for a lower sentence, also discussing how Seefried accepted responsibility, never bragged about his participation and was diagnosed with medical issues.

    Seefried and his son, Hunter Seefried, who was sentenced to two years in jail in October, initially traveled on Jan. 6 to attend Trump’s rally on the Ellipse. They went to the Capitol and ate before seeing the crowd and joining in.

    “His father did not do what a father should have done,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Brittany Reed told the judge.

    Prosecutors say the two men were some of the first rioters to enter the Capitol Building, where they remained for 25 minutes and confronted U.S. Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman.

    Goodman received widespread acclaim for leading rioters away from lawmakers in the Senate Chamber moments later in an episode captured on video.

    Goodman testified during Seefried’s trial and said Seefried jabbed at him with the end of his flagpole multiple times.

    “He was saying things like: ‘F you. I’m not leaving. Where are the members at? Where are they counting the votes at?’ Things to that nature,” Goodman testified, according to court filings.

    “He was — he was just ignoring me,” Goodman continued. “He wasn’t following. I’m giving him commands. He’s giving me commands in return. He’s not doing what I say.”

    In the roughly two years since the attack, federal prosecutors have arrested more than 950 defendants, according to the Department of Justice.

    “I’ve lost my son, and I’ve lost my wife,” Seefried said.

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    Woman sentenced after fraudulently obtaining COVID-19 relief loan, using it for Trump resort trip and plastic surgery

    “To qualify for a PPP loan, an applicant had to meet certain criteria, including that the applicant was in operation on February 15, 2020, and either was paying salaries and payroll taxes for employees or paid independent contractors, as reported on an IRS Form 1099-MISC,” records state.

    But she was in prison at the time, having been convicted on Sept. 26, 2019. Instead, however, Bethea claimed to run a marketing consulting services business.

    “The fraudulent PPP loan application stated that Bethea had made $99,835 during calendar year 2019 (a year when Bethea was in prison), falsely claimed that Bethea had not been convicted of any fraud offenses during the past five years and attached a fraudulent income tax Schedule C as proof of her claim that she made $99,835,” prosecutors wrote.

    As part of her sentencing, Bethea must also spend three years on supervised release and pay restitution of $20,805.

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    A Jan. 6 rioter who allegedly used an "electroshock weapon" to assault Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone and then bragged about the attack to friends pleaded guilty to related charges Tuesday.

    "Omg I did so much f---ing s--- rn and got away tell you later," Daniel "D.J." Rodriguez, of Fontana, California, wrote in a group chat with other rioters, according to an indictment filed in federal court in Washington. "Tazzzzed the f--- out of the blue."

    Rodriguez was charged with eight federal counts and pleaded guilty to four of those: conspiracy, obstructing an official proceeding, tampering with documents, and inflicting bodily injury on an officer using a dangerous weapon.

    Three of the charges to which Rodriguez pleaded guilty carry a maximum of 20 years in prison. Prosecutors and Rodriguez’s lawyers differ on their calculation of his probable sentence under federal sentencing guidelines, but Rodriguez is more likely to face a sentence in the range of 7-10 years. Prosecutors also indicated Tuesday that they might argue a terrorism sentencing enhancement should be applied in Rodriguez’s case.

    The plea agreement does not require that he cooperate with prosecutors.

    U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson will sentence Rodriguez on May 16. His case had been scheduled to go to trial this month.

    California Man Pleads Guilty to Four Felonies, Including Conspiracy and Assaulting Police Officer During Capitol Breach | USAO-DC | Department of Justice

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    Prosecutors say a romantic acquaintance of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio — who provided him with a tactical plan to occupy government buildings just days before Jan. 6, 2021 — pleaded the Fifth when subpoenaed in May.

    Erika Flores, a Florida-based cryptocurrency advocate, “answered only brief biographical questions and then invoked her fifth amendment right not to testify repeatedly in response to more than 50 transcript pages worth of questions by the government” about the document titled “1776 Returns,” prosecutors revealed in a Monday night court filing.

    That document is now at the heart of the government’s seditious conspiracy charge against Tarrio and four other members of the Proud Boys, accused of masterminding the riot and breach of the Capitol that day.


    Notably, prosecutors’ unsuccessful effort to glean information from Flores stands in contrast to the Jan. 6 select committee. Two investigators familiar with her interview — an informal, untranscribed appearance in early 2022 — say that while she was a reluctant witness and initially planned to plead the Fifth, she ultimately agreed to answer some questions about the document.

    “Instead of pleading the Fifth, we did an interview with her,” one of the investigators said, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe information the committee had not publicly released. “She gave us the name of Samuel Armes as the name of the individual who wrote the document.”

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    Buffalo mass shooter formally sentenced to life in prison without parole

    The white gunman charged with killing 10 Black people in the 2022 "racially motivated" mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, was sentenced to life in state prison on Wednesday.

    Driving the news: Peyton Gendron, now 19, in November pleaded guilty to state charges, including one count of domestic terrorism motivated by hate, and will have no chance for parole.

    What to watch: Gendron still faces 27 felony charges in federal court, including multiple counts of hate crimes that resulted in death. He has pleaded not guilty.

    Details: Before he was sentenced Wednesday, Gendron made a formal statement of apology to the families of the victims. Attorneys for the families told the Buffalo News ahead of the sentencing that any apology from Gendron would be intended to dissuade the Justice Department from pursuing the death penalty in federal court.


    • While Barbara Massey Mapps, sister of 72-year-old victim Katherine Massey, was giving her impact statement, an unidentified man charged toward Gendron in the courtroom before being stopped by police officers.
    • Gendron was rushed out of the room by officers, and the proceeding was briefly halted.


    Context: Gendron was indicted in state court on 25 counts that included 10 first-degree murder charges and three counts of attempted murder as a hate crime. The domestic terrorism count carries mandatory life without parole — no maximum or minimum.




    What they're saying: "There is no place for you or your ignorant, hateful and evil ideologies in a civilized society," Erie County Court Judge Susan Eagan said before sentencing Gendron.


    • "There can be no mercy for you, no understanding, no second chances. The damage you have caused is too great, and the people you have hurt are too valuable to this community. You will never see the light of day as a free man ever again," Eagan added.
    • The judge said Gendron's actions, and other hateful acts also motivated by white supremacy, "are a reckoning for us as a nation." She attributed the acts to past and present systemic discriminatory practices against people of color.


    Simone Crawley, a granddaughter of 86-year-old victim Ruth Whitfield, said in a victim impact statement: "Our grandmother went to buy seeds for her garden on May 14, 2022."


    • "She may not have been able to plant those seeds, but the seeds she planted throughout her life are abundant," Crawley said to Gendron.


    • "We find strength in knowing that her legacy will outlive you," she added. "Even with all of the heartache you have caused, you have failed to break our family's spirit. You thought you broke us, but you awoke us."


    NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson said in a statement on Wednesday that he hoped the victims could find "some comfort in the fact that this white supremacist will spend the rest of his life behind bars."

    Don't forget: Authorities say that Gendron, who was 18 at the time of the shooting, drove over 200 miles to attack people in the predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo. Eleven of the 13 people he shot were Black.


    • He used a semiautomatic rifle that carried a racial epithet and the number 14, a white supremacist numeric symbol, as an inscription.
    • "Gendron's motive for the mass shooting was to prevent Black people from replacing white people and eliminating the white race, and to inspire others to commit similar attacks," prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of New York wrote in a June court filing.


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    Charlottesville Tiki Torcher Killed Himself Before Drug Smuggling Trial




    Teddy Joseph Von Nukem, one of the most prominent faces lit by the glow of tiki torches in what became the lasting image of the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, killed himself as he was due to face criminal trial last month.

    The 35-year-old skipped out on his first day of trial for a drug trafficking charge in Arizona on the morning of Jan. 30, according to court records. At the very moment a federal judge was issuing a warrant for his arrest, Von Nukem was actually still at his home in Missouri, where he had walked out in the snow behind the hay shed and shot himself.

    Von Nukem gained notoriety for attending the Aug. 12, 2017 hate speech rally that aggressively revived a nativist movement in the United States. He glorified the violence, and researchers of domestic extremism suspect he was a key figure in a brutal beating of a black man that day.

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    assaulting, resisting, or impeding federal law enforcement, which carries a maximum of eight years behind bars, and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder, which has a potential five-year sentence.




    A Texas man has been arrested on felony charges, including assaulting a law enforcement officer, for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.

    Jason Farris, 44, of Arlington, Texas, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers; obstructing, impeding, or interfering with officers during a civil disorder; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; and physical violence in a restricted building or grounds. He was arrested today in Texas. He is expected to make his initial appearance later today in the Northern District of Texas.

    According to court documents, on Jan. 6, 2021, Farris was at the front of a mob on the North side of the Lower West Plaza of the Capitol, a location that was restricted from lawful public access. Police officers at this location had set up metal bicycle racks as a barricade to prevent rioters from advancing further into the Capitol. At approximately 2:15 p.m., Farris stated to the police officers, among other things: “I bet your family is proud of you, fucking faggot ass. You ain’t shit. Ain’t none of you shit.” As he said this, Farris hit the baton held by of one of the police officers with his hand.

    Moments later, other rioters grabbed one of the bicycle racks and attempted to pull it away from the officers. Several officers held onto the bicycle rack. Farris approached a U.S. Capitol Police officer who was holding onto the bicycle rack and shoved the officer in the back with two hands, knocking him to the ground. After Farris shoved the officer to the ground, other rioters pulled the bicycle rack away from the police and dragged it into the crowd.

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    Defense attorneys for five Proud Boys leaders intend to call former President Donald Trump to testify as a witness in their clients’ seditious conspiracy trial.

    However, it remains unclear whether their effort will succeed.

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    Defendant Entered Senate Chamber, Paged Through Notebook, Took Out Papers on Senator’s Desk

    WASHINGTON – A New York man was sentenced on a felony charge for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.

    Christopher Patrick Moynihan, 32, of Salt Point, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 21 months in prison. Moynihan was found guilty, on August 23, 2022, of obstruction of an official proceeding, a felony. He also pleaded guilty to a total of five related misdemeanor charges. In addition to the prison term, Judge Christopher R. Cooper ordered 36 months of supervised release and restitution of $2,000.

    According to the stipulated facts presented at trial, on Jan. 6, 2021, Moynihan was among rioters who broke through the security perimeter on the east side of the Capitol Building. He joined rioters outside the Rotunda Door, and at approximately 2:40 p.m., was among those who entered the building. At approximately 2:45 p.m., he briefly entered the Senate Gallery. Several minutes later, he entered the Senate Chamber. While in the Senate Chamber, Moynihan paged through a notebook on top of a Senator’s desk, taking out papers, and taking pictures with his cellphone. While looking through the papers, he said, “There’s gotta be something in here we can f---- use against these ----bags.”

    Moynihan then walked down to the Senate well, where he stood adjacent to an elevated desk and platform. He stood with a group of rioters who shouted, cheered, and said prayers with a bullhorn. At approximately 3:08 p.m., law enforcement officers cleared the Senate Chamber and Moynihan was escorted out of the Capitol Building.

    This case was prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the Department of Justice National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. Valuable assistance was provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.

    The case was investigated by the FBI’s New York and Washington Field Offices. Valuable assistance was provided by the Metropolitan Police Department, and the U.S. Capitol Police.

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    A Texas man who called to assassinate Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was sentenced to more than three years in prison on Wednesday for actions he took during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

    Garret Miller, 36, was sentenced to 38 months in prison over his actions on Jan. 6, including assaulting a police officer, an interstate threat to injure or kidnap, three counts of interfering with law enforcement during a civil disorder and entering restricted grounds. He pleaded guilty to all of the counts in December 2022, and was also sentenced to 36 months of supervised release.

    He traveled to D.C. to stop the certification of the 2020 election results and brought rope, a grappling hook, a mouth guard and a bump cap to the Capitol, according to the Justice Department’s press release. The department said that during the breach of the Capitol, Miller “was so disruptive on the East Front of the building that he was twice detained, the second time resulting in him being put in handcuffs.”

    After he was released, he stayed at the riot and pushed his way into the Rotunda, where law enforcement was trying to remove rioters. He then assaulted a police officer and got into “physical altercations” with at least six others before leaving the building after 5 p.m. that day, according to the Justice Department.

    Miller also used social media to threaten officials and public officials, including Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, according to the release.

    Miller responded to a post Ocasio-Cortez made on social media that read “Impeach” with his own message, “Assassinate AOC,” on the evening of Jan. 6, 2021. According to the Justice Department’s press release announcing his sentencing, he openly expressed a desire to “start assassinating” and boasted about how he “terrified [c]ongress” after the riots on Jan. 6 up until his arrest on Jan. 20, 2021.

    The release also stated that when he was arrested, he was wearing a shirt that said “I was there, Washington, D.C., January 6, 2021,” with a photo of former President Trump on it.

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    A top lieutenant of the Proud Boys’ chairman, Enrique Tarrio, described on Wednesday a growing desperation among the group’s leaders as Jan. 6, 2021, approached and then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the election results sputtered.

    That’s when the group’s thoughts turned to “all-out revolution,” according to Jeremy Bertino, the Justice Department’s star witness in the seditious conspiracy trial of Tarrio and four other Proud Boys leaders, who are charged with orchestrating a violent attempt to derail the transfer of power from Trump to Joe Biden.

    Bertino, who pleaded guilty to his own seditious conspiracy charge last year, gave jurors an insider’s view of the Proud Boys’ leadership as Jan. 6 approached and the group became increasingly convinced that the Biden presidency posed an existential threat. Those views, prodded along at times by Trump’s own efforts to subvert his defeat, intensified after Tarrio was arrested on Jan. 4, 2021, upon arriving in Washington.

    Now, the group’s leaders — Tarrio and Joe Biggs of Florida, Ethan Nordean of Seattle, Zachary Rehl of Philadelphia and Dominic Pezzola of New York — are facing the gravest charges to emerge from the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

    “Everyone felt very desperate,” Bertino said of the group’s increasingly militant rhetoric as Jan. 6 neared, particularly after the Supreme Court declined to take up Trump’s actions. As for Tarrio, Bertino added, “His tones were calculated, cold but very determined that he felt the exact same way that I did.”

    Bertino didn’t travel to Washington on Jan. 6, in part because he was nursing a stab wound from a skirmish during a Dec. 12, 2020, visit to Washington to protest Trump’s defeat. But he remained in contact with the group on Jan. 6, including Tarrio, who had been released from jail and traveled to a Baltimore hotel. Prosecutors showed jurors Bertino’s excited messages, urging the Proud Boys to push farther into the Capitol and help disrupt the counting of electoral votes intended to certify Biden’s victory.

    “I thought I was watching history,” Bertino recalled. “I thought it was historical. I thought it was a revolution starting.”

    When one member of the group informed others that then-Vice President Mike Pence had resisted Trump’s entreaties to overturn the election on his own, Bertino assured them: “Don’t worry, boys. America’s taking care of it right now.”

    Bertino’s jubilance turned into fury after Trump told rioters to go home and law enforcement cleared the Capitol.

    “We failed,” he told other Proud Boys in various Telegram chats, after Congress had returned to continue certifying Biden’s victory. He lamented that the rioters caused mayhem simply to “take selfies in Pelosi’s office.”

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    “I wanted to be there to witness what I believed was the next American revolution,” Bertino told jurors.

    Bertino also clarified an odd text to Tarrio that read “They need to get peloton.” It was an autocorrect for Pelosi, Bertino said.

    “She was the target, as far as the one who had been pushing the information [about the election],” Bertino recalled thinking. “She was the talking head of the opposition. And they needed to remove her from power.”

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    A judge ruled on Thursday that the Club Q mass shooting suspect, accused of killing five people last year, will get a jury trial and is being held without bond.

    Anderson Lee Aldrich, the 22-year-old suspect, is facing over 300 charges, including murder and bias-motivated crimes following the November 2022 shooting at Club Q in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

    On Tuesday during a formal filing of charges, District Attorney Michael Allen noted that the murder charges could carry the harshest penalty, which is life in prison.

    Court binds 323 charges to Aldrich, arraignment set for May

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    David Mehaffie sentenced for role in Jan. 6 tunnel clash

    Ohio man seen hanging from tunnel during violent Capitol clash on Jan. 6 sentenced for felony convictions

    An Ohio man who positioned himself over the riotous crowd of Donald Trump supporters facing off against law enforcement at a tunnel on U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6 will spend more than a year behind bars.

    David Mehaffie, 63, of Kettering, Ohio, was sentenced to 14 months in prison after being convicted at a bench trial of two felony charges, the Justice Department announced Friday. U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, also sentenced Mehaffie to six months on two misdemeanor charges, which the defendant will be allowed to serve at the same time as the longer felony sentence.

    Mehaffie is one of nine men charged in the confrontation at the Lower West Terrace tunnel that injured Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, who was crushed in a doorway. He and co-defendants Patrick McCaughey III and Tristan Chandler Stevens were convicted in September following a bench trial before McFadden.

    According to prosecutors, Mehaffie took a leadership role in urging the crowd to keep pushing against the police line trying to keep rioters out of the Capitol, where Congress had begun to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral win. As officers from U.S. Capitol Police and Metropolitan Police tried to hold the line against the crowd at the tunnel entrance, Mehaffie, McCaughey, and Stevens continued to whip the mob into an angry frenzy.

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    Federal investigators said Monday that they had arrested a man who they say dressed up in a panda costume during the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot and attacked law enforcement.

    Jesse James Rumson was taken into custody in Florida and charged with numerous felony counts, including assaulting and obstructing police outside the Capitol building.

    According to charging papers made public on Monday, Rumson – who became anonymously referred to as "#SeditionPanda" by some online communities – made his way to the Capitol as part of the large mob of Trump supporters, putting on at various points the panda costume head.

    After rioters broke a door in the Senate wing, investigators say Rumson hopped over railings and was "among the first approximately twenty" to enter the building through that entryway. Pictures from that day show the defendant, wearing a panda costume head, wielding a white flag that read, in part, "Don't tread on me."

    While inside, according to prosecutors, Rumson lost his panda head and appeared to have been handcuffed before being forced out of the Capitol through another door.

    Photographic evidence presented in court documents shows what investigators say are other rioters helping remove the handcuffs from Rumson's wrists before he celebratorily held up wooden rosary beads in the crowd.

    Once freed, he allegedly ran through the crowd gathered outside the Capitol and towards a line of officers defending the building. Rumsen then grabbed an officer's mask, "which forced the officer's head and neck back and upwards."

    A CBS News review of court records and hearings shows that approximately 980 defendants have been charged with alleged crimes stemming from the Jan. 6 Capitol attack.

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    Retired state trooper accused of taking part in Capitol riot

    A retired New Jersey State Police trooper is accused of taking part in the U.S. Capitol riot.

    Michael Daniele, 60, allegedly was among the first to breach a barricade at the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, according to a court filing from the U.S. Department of Justice.

    The filing, unsealed Monday, alleges Daniele stepped on a barricade at the Peace Circle around 12:53 p.m., interfering with U.S. Capitol Police officers who sought to keep the barricade upright "to stop the advance of the rioters."

    It claims Daniele then removed another barrier on the Capitol's West Plaza, passed under the scaffolding of the inauguration stage and walked up steps to the Upper West Plaza.

    Daniele entered the Capitol around 2:19 p.m. and left the building at 2:26 p.m. after, he told investigators, failing to find a bathroom.

    Daniele admitted to entering the Capitol when interviewed by FBI agents at his home in Holmdel, Monmouth County, the filing says.

    "He said he entered the Capitol through a broken door next to a broken window."

    "According to Daniele, he only entered one large space of the building and after looking for a bathroom and not finding one, left immediately thereafter," it says.

    Daniele identified himself in videos and photos from the riot. He also identified his black jacket, with the letters "MFIC" on a sleeve, and his brown work boots.

    Daniele told the agents he took a charter bus to Washington, D.C., where supporters of then-President Donald Trump occupied the Capitol in an effort to thwart the election of President Joe Biden.

    According to the filing, a State Police detective identified Daniele as a suspect on March 9, 2021.

    Daniele was a 2003 graduate of the State Police Canine Training Academy, which he attended with a K9, Buddy, according to a press release from that time.

    Additional details about his service were not immediately available from the State Police.

    Daniele is charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

    He was released on $100,000 unsecured bond after his arrest on Thursday.

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    A Jan. 6 rioter pleaded guilty Friday after being caught on video stealing D.C. police officer Michael Fanone's radio and badge while a mob attacked him, per court records.

    Driving the news: Thomas F. Sibick of Buffalo pleaded guilty to assaulting, resisting or impeding an officer, and to two counts of theft in a federal court.


    • Sibick faces anywhere from just under three to nearly six years in prison, according to sentencing guidelines listed in his plea agreement.


    The big picture: Sibick is the latest person to plead guilty to assaulting Fanone, after Daniel Rodriguez and Albuquerque Head both pleaded guilty within the last year to their part in the attack.

    Background: Fanone suffered a minor heart attack and a traumatic brain injury after he was dragged into the crowd, beaten, and tased during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.




    What's next: Sibick is scheduled to be sentenced on July 28.

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    Benjamin Rogers was sentenced to 108 months in prison and Jarrod Copeland was sentenced to 54 months


    • Two California men sentenced in plan to attack Democratic HQ in Sacramento


    On Thursday, March 2, Ian Benjamin Rogers was sentenced to 108 months in prison and Jarrod Copeland was sentenced to 54 months in prison for their respective roles in crimes including a conspiracy to destroy the Democratic Headquarters in Sacramento, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp. The sentences were handed down by the Honorable Charles R. Breyer, Senior United States District Judge.

    Rogers, 46, of Napa, and Copeland, 39, of Vallejo, pleaded guilty to their crimes on May 26, 2022, and November 16, 2021, respectively. Rogers was sentenced for conspiracy as well as multiple federal weapons violations while Copeland was sentenced for his role in the conspiracy and for obstruction of justice.

    “The defendants in this case admitted that they intended to destroy the headquarters of a political organization by firebombing it,” said U.S. Attorney Hinds. “Their decision to ‘go to war’ was based on their thought that they would rather destroy their political opponents’ building than acknowledge they lost an election and rely on the political process to make change. Ian Rogers and Jarrod Copeland will now have plenty of time to reflect on the fact that resorting to violence is not an acceptable means of making political change in our democracy. Prosecution and imprisonment await those who attempt to supplant the political process with fear and violence.”

    “Rogers and Copeland devised a plan of attack to put innocent lives in danger. Today’s sentences make clear that those actions have serious consequences,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Robert K. Tripp. “The FBI’s partnership with the Napa County Sheriff’s Office was critical in thwarting their plot. We will not stop our pursuit of extremists who advocate for violence over constitutionally protected discourse and imperil our communities.”

    Rogers and Copeland entered into separate plea agreements in which they admitted their role in the crimes. Both defendants admitted in their plea agreements that after the 2020 Presidential election they conspired together to destroy the John L. Burton Democratic Headquarters in Sacramento. They admitted that between November 2020 and January 2021 they discussed attacking the Democratic Headquarters building with cans of gasoline, including by throwing gas cans through the front windows of the building and igniting the gasoline to burn down the building. They also acknowledged that Rogers viewed the Democratic Headquarters building on the internet and sent a map of the location to Copeland, discussing the building’s proximity to a fire department and certain law enforcement in devising their plan, all to refine the method of attack to ensure they caused the greatest damage to the building while allowing their escape without detection. Rogers and Copeland also admitted discussing how they would wait until after the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021, before carrying out the attack.

    At a hearing for the defendants’ sentencings, Judge Breyer described the defendants’ conduct as “an act of terrorism.” Judge Breyer stated, “this is a very serious offense . . .. But for the intervention of law enforcement, it’s the Court’s view that there was no impediment to the act of terrorism; and whether it was one or multiple, the evidence that was obtained certainly shows that there was a plan, a design, an opportunity and ability to carry out the firebombing of the Democratic Headquarters located in Sacramento, California, the John Burton Building.”

    On July 7, 2021, a federal grand jury handed down an indictment charging Copeland with one count of conspiracy to destroy by fire or explosive a building used in or affecting interstate commerce, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 844(i) and (n); and one count of obstruction of justice, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1512(c). The grand jury also charged Rogers with the conspiracy charge as well as one count of possession of unregistered destructive devices, in violation of 26 U.S.C.§ 5861(d), and three counts of possession of machine guns, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(o). Copeland pleaded guilty to both charges pending against him. Rogers pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge, one count of possession of unregistered destructive devices, and one count of possessing an illegal machine gun. At the sentencing, Judge Breyer dismissed the remaining charges with respect to Rogers.

    https://www.oc-breeze.com/2023/03/04...in-sacramento/

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    Navy Reservist convicted of joining mob that stormed US Capitol

    A federal judge convicted a Navy Reservist on all counts Tuesday for joining the mob that occupied the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election.

    Hatchet Speed, of McLean, Virginia, was found guilty of one felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding and four misdemeanor counts by U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden. McFadden delivered his ruling Tuesday following a brief bench trial last week.

    Speed, a petty officer first class in the U.S. Naval Reserves, was arrested in June last year on four misdemeanor counts and later indicted on a fifth felony count of obstruction of an official proceeding. He was released after his arrest on home detention and GPS monitoring and ordered not to possess any firearms, destructive devices or other weapons. At the time of his arrest, Speed had been assigned to the Naval Warfare Space Field Activity at the National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, Virginia.

    In charging documents, prosecutors said Speed told an undercover FBI employee he’d traveled to the Capitol with friends who were members of the Proud Boys and that going to the Capitol as “always the plan.” He said he’d entered the building in part because he’d heard former Vice President Mike Pence had “validated” certain ballots he considered “invalid.”

    On Tuesday, McFadden said the government had provided more than sufficient evidence to convict Speed on the felony count of obstruction, saying it was "crystal clear that Mr. Speed intended to obstruct and occupy the Capitol building" and had only left because he believed that goal had been achieved.

    McFadden set a sentencing hearing for Speed for May 8. Prior to that hearing, Speed will be sentenced in a separate case in the Eastern District of Virginia where a jury convicted him in January of illegally possessing unregistered firearms disguised to look like cleaning supplies.

    The silencers were discovered during a search of Speed’s residence following his arrest in his Jan. 6 case. Prosecutors allege the silencers were part of a more than $40,000 “panic buying” spree by Speed following the riot. According to court documents, Speed told an undercover FBI employee the silencers could be useful when he "carried out a plot to hold ‘mock trials’ for and kidnap his enemies, starting with local targets, such as members of the Anti-Defamation League."

    The undercover employee said Speed also repeatedly expressed anti-Semitic beliefs and praised Adolf Hitler, describing him as “one of the best people that’s ever been on this Earth.”

    More than 1,000 people have now been charged in connection with the Capitol riot, including more than 550 who have either pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial. The Justice Department has said it anticipates at least another 1,000 cases to be filed in connection with the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol.

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    A woman who yelled threats directed at former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as she and others stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was found guilty Tuesday of multiple charges related to her actions that day.

    A release from the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia states that Pauline Bauer, a 55-year-old resident of Kane, Pa., was convicted of nearly half a dozen charges for her role in the insurrection, including obstruction of an official proceeding, entering and remaining in a restricted building, and disorderly or disruptive conduct in a restricted building.

    U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden also found her guilty of disorderly and disruptive conduct in any of the Capitol buildings with intent to impede, disrupt and disturb a session of Congress and parading, demonstrating and picketing in a Capitol building.

    Evidence from the U.S. attorney’s office shows Bauer illegally entered the Capitol and said just before 3 p.m. on Jan. 6 “words to the effect of ‘This is where we find Nancy Pelosi,’” according to the release.

    She was about 30 feet from the Speaker’s office when she said, “Bring that f—— b—- out here now. Bring her out. Bring her out here. We’re coming in if you don’t bring her out here.”

    Bauer also pushed a Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police officer and yelled expletives and “You back up. Don’t even try” when he tried to get her to leave an area of the Capitol that he was guarding.

    Officers later removed Bauer from the Capitol Rotunda.

    She was later arrested in May 2021 in Pennsylvania.

    She could face up to 20 years in prison and financial penalties for the obstruction of an official proceeding charge, which is a felony. The other charges, which are misdemeanors, carry a maximum of three years imprisonment in total and financial penalties.

    Her sentencing is scheduled for May 1.

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    A man who threatened to kill CDC director Rochelle Walensky has pleaded guilty to "making threats in interstate commerce," federal prosecutors said Monday.

    Details: Robert Wiser Bates told FBI agents he called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, to leave threatening voicemails for Walensky in July 2021 that stated "he would kill Dr. Anthony Fauci as well," per a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Mississippi.

    What's next: Bates, 39, of Ridgeland, Mississippi, is scheduled to be sentenced in March and faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to prosecutors.

    The big picture: The American Medical Association warned in February that a rise in intimidation, threats and attacks on medical professionals over the past decade had become "even more of an alarming phenomenon since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic."




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    Update: Mississippi man gets 2 years for threats to CDC officials

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    A mentally ill Michigan man accused of making death threats on social media against Democratic politicians and those in the LGBTQ community was charged with illegally possessing guns.

    Randall Berka II is accused of posting various written threats on a YouTube channel, the FBI said in a criminal complaint unsealed Friday in federal court in Flint.

    According to the complaint, Berka — who lives with his parents in Sebewaing — said “biden deserves to die,” a reference to President Joe Biden, and that he was “more than willing tot kill whitmer,” a reference to Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

    Berka also wrote, “I’ll kill anyone who tries to take my guns,” according to the FBI.

    He was expected to appear in court Friday. It is not known if he has an attorney who can speak on his behalf.

    Berka was involuntarily committed for mental health care in 2012 and declared incapacitated, which bars him from possessing guns or ammunition, the FBI said.

    His mother purchased four firearms for him in the past year, but now believes he “should be arrested and put in prison,” the FBI said in the complaint.

    She “does not think the mental health treatment is working,” the FBI said.

    The case follows the February arrest of another Michigan man who was accused of threatening to kill state government officials who are Jewish. Jack Carpenter III, of Tipton, was indicted Thursday on a hate crime charge.

    'They all need to die'

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