Man Armed With Mace And Boot Knife Arrested For Assaulting Capitol Officers Kevin Creek of Georgia, who was caught on camera striking and kicking officers, was arrested Wednesday in connection with the Jan. 6 riot. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kevin-douglas-creek-capitol-riot-arrest_n_60c15187e4b0af343e9bcd37
Correct---- ---"It does not appear that Creek entered the Capitol building itself. He said he’d attempted to get in but had been deterred by tear gas, according to the complaint."---
From a site seemingly built to deal with your posts: https://www.factcheck.org/2021/03/capitol-protesters-were-armed-with-variety-of-weapons/ [emphasis added] DEBUNKING FALSE STORIES Capitol Protesters Were Armed With Variety of Weapons By Joseph A. Gambardello Posted on March 10, 2021 | Updated on May 24, 2021 Quick Take Conservative social media posts misleadingly claim the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was not an “armed” insurrection, citing FBI testimony that no guns were seized from suspects that day. But 23 people have been charged with having deadly or dangerous weapons during the assault — including a loaded handgun found on a man arrested on Capitol grounds. Full Story On March 3, the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and Senate Committee on Rules and Administration held a joint hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on Capitol Hill. The assault left five people dead and scores injured, including at least 138 Capitol and Metropolitan Police Department officers. During the hearing, Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin asked Jill Sanborn, assistant director of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, “How many firearms were confiscated in the Capitol or on Capitol grounds during that day?” “To my knowledge, we have not recovered any on that day from any other arrests at the scene at this point,” Sanborn said. “But I don’t want to speak on behalf of Metro and Capitol Police.” Social media posts latched on to the answer to misleadingly purport that the protesters were not armed. One meme, showing a photo of protesters inside the Capitol, falsely claimed: “Senate testimony this week confirms that no Capitol protesters were armed and not a single weapon was found. Clearly NOT insurrection, NOT an attempt to overthrow the government, just out of control protestors that saw inadequate security and ran thru the building.” An article on the conservative website Gateway Pundit — which was cited on the website of conservative commentator David Harris Jr. — carried the headline: “Another Democrat-Media Narrative Goes Up in Flames: FBI Official Admits No Firearms Were Confiscated by Law Enforcement at Capitol Riot.” But a wide array of lethal weapons — including a firearm — were found on protesters at the Capitol. The Metropolitan Police Department reported its officers, while trying to clear the Capitol grounds about 7 p.m. on Jan. 6, arrested and charged a 33-year-old Maryland man with the federal offense of carrying a fully loaded 9mm semi-automatic handgun on Capitol grounds. The suspect, Christopher Michael Alberts, also was carrying a second magazine. Social media posts claiming that protesters were not armed also do not address the issue of other weapons used by assailants at the Capitol — or the seizure of guns from supporters before and after the riot. In legal terms, “armed” means being in possession of any weapon, not just a firearm. While there are laws that specifically address firearms, weapons can include virtually any object used to threaten or cause harm. According to a database compiled by NPR, of the people charged with violent offenses, including assault on police officers, 15 were armed with deadly or dangerous weapons during the riot at the Capitol. Eight others facing civil disorder or property destruction charges also were charged with possessing weapons, according to the database. Those weapons included baseball bats, chemical sprays, a captured police officer’s riot shield, a crowbar, fire extinguishers and a metal flagpole. Thomas Webster, a retired New York Police Department officer, was charged with attacking a Metropolitan Police Department officer with a metal flagpole. The federal complaint says he struck at the officer “with the flagpole numerous times.” Before and after the storming of the Capitol, NBC News reported, police seized a dozen firearms, including an assault rifle, and thousands of rounds of ammunition from seven people attending the rally for President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. Other weapons included a crossbow, a stun gun and 11 Molotov cocktails. The FBI, in a statement to FactCheck.org on March 5, said Sanborn had testified “in her capacity as the FBI Assistant Director of the Counterterrorism Division. Her responses were restricted to FBI investigative matters and she appropriately deferred to other law enforcement partners for their information.” Asha Rangappa, an attorney and former FBI agent, told us in an email that she did “not see the logic” in the claim that firearms had to be present for the Capitol riot to have been deemed an armed insurrection. She also said we will never know how many rioters might have been armed with guns on Jan. 6, because only some were arrested that day. “Not only was law enforcement completely overwhelmed (and being assaulted), from what I saw people were basically allowed to leave unimpeded,” said Rangappa, a senior lecturer at Yale University’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. “So those arrested … are hardly representative of everyone who was there that day.” Update, May 24: The Capitol Police and the Justice Department initially reported that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died as a result of injuries sustained during the riot. In April, the Washington Post reported that District of Columbia Chief Medical Examiner Francisco J. Diaz found that Sicknick suffered two strokes nearly eight hours after being sprayed with a chemical irritant during the riot. Diaz told the Post that Sicknick died of natural causes, but “all that transpired played a role in his condition.” Editor’s note: FactCheck.org is one of several organizations working with Facebook to debunk misinformation shared on social media. Our previous stories can be found here.
Reader---just a quick note----I only deal in truth and common sense. -----Trump supporters who entered The Capitol were unarmed, and in many cases, invited in.
6 members of the 3%'ers Militia are now facing conspiracy charges in connection with the Jan 6th insurrection including two militia members who were pictured standing next to Roger Stone the day before. Yeah, and their leader is a former police chief. ‘Traitors Need to Be Executed’: Several Three Percenters Charged in U.S. Capitol Riot Indictment Filled with Weapons and ‘Insurrection’ Chatter https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol...filled-with-weapons-and-insurrection-chatter/ Six members of the militia group known as the Three Percenters have been charged with the siege of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, in an indictment filled with chilling fantasies of executions and chatter about weapons and “insurrection.” Two of the men charged—Alan Hostetter and Russell Taylor—were reportedly seen with Donald Trump’s friend and advisor Roger Stone the day before the riot. Their accused conspirators are Eric Scott Warner, 45; Felipe Antonio “Tony” Martinez, 47; Derek Kinnison, 39; and Ronald Mele, 51. Hostetter is a former police chief in California, a yoga instructor, and a “Stop the Steal” organizer. Stone, a self-described dirty trickster who has been tied to multiple accused rioters, has not been charged with wrongdoing. According to prosecutors, the California men were drawn to the Capitol in response Donald Trump’s widely criticized tweet on Dec. 19th. The then-lame duck president urged his backers to descend upon the Capitol the following month: “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” The sextet of Three Percenters—the name of a militia group taking its name from the erroneous belief that only 3% of American colonists opposed the British during the Revolutionary War—have their chilling alleged communications preparing for the event quoted throughout a 20-page federal indictment. At the center of that document is Stone associate Hostetter, who created another organization said to have been involved in the planning. The founder of the American Phoenix Project, Hostetter founded the group in opposition to COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, but the group morphed in the post-2020 election cycle to efforts to topple now-President Joe Biden’s victory. (The group’s website, filled with conspiratorial rhetoric, merchandise sales, and YouTube videos, remains active.) In one video posted on the group’s YouTube page on Nov. 27, Hostetter fantasized about millions of Trump supporters engaged in an orgy of violence in Washington, D.C., prosecutors said. That’s not hyperbole when we call it tyranny, that’s fucking tyranny. And tyrants and traitors need to be executed as an example…. In example…. I’m going to D.C. I’m going to be there on Saturday for this march. I hope there are a million Patriots there. Between that, that’s going to be a shot across the bow of the deep state when they see a million Patriots surrounding that shit hole of a city— the swamp. Because it’s gonna make all those swamp creatures know that at any time we want we’ll come back with a million Patriots and we’ll surround that city.. There’s gonna be a million of us showing up to make this statement here in Washington, D.C., and I’m telling the swamp right now, that we will be back if this doesn’t get resolved peacefully and soon. Hostetter had been referring to the so-called “Stop the Steal” rally in late November, and he hosted another one like it in Huntington Beach, Calif. on Dec. 12, where prosecutors say he echoed the same violent rhetoric in a speech. There must, absolutely must, be a reckoning. There must be justice. President Trump must be inaugurated on January 20th. And he must be allowed to finish this historic job of cleaning out the corruption in the cesspool known as Washington, D.C. The enemies and traitors of America both foreign and domestic must be held accountable. And they will. There must be long prison terms, while execution is the just punishment for the ringleaders of this coup. Russell Taylor also attended that rally, and the two of them were active on a Telegram, an encrypted social media app that became popular with the political far-right after Twitter and Facebook purged many of their ranks from their platform. After Trump’s “Be there, will be wild tweet,” Hostetter took to his “@americanphoenixproject” Instagram account to explain why he was going to Washington. This is the date of the Joint Session of Congress in which they will either accept or reject the fake/phony/stolen electoral college votes. I will be there, bullhorns on fire, to let the swamp dwellers know we will not let them steal our country from us. I hope you can join me!! #fightfortrump #stopthesteal #savetherepublic Prosecutors say that Hostetter and Taylor booked rooms at the Kimpton George Hotel in Washington, D.C. for several days before, during and after the siege. The pair started organizing on Telegram shortly after that, according to the indictment. One exchange quoted in the indictment from late last year Dec. 29th shows the duo discussing travel to Washington, D.C.—and weapons. a. HOSTETTER texted, “I’ll be heading to DC on 12/31. Let’s hook up on 12/30 so you can give me your backpack,” followed by three hatchet emojis. b. TAYLOR responded, “Oh shiz. I need to pack that up. Alan are you bringing firearms?” c. HOSTETTER texted back, “NO NEVER (Instagram now monitors all text messages.. this has been a public service announcement),” followed by three emojis of faces laughing with tears coming out of their eyes. On Jan. 2, Taylor responded to a query in the DC Brigade Telegram chat regarding what weapons could be carried in the nation’s capital by answering a “'[h]atchet,’ ‘at,’ or ‘[l]arge metal flashlight,'” according to the indictment. “I believe that you can carry most fixed blades just not into the government buildings,” Taylor allegedly added. “Something tells me though if we are inside government buildings it won’t be on the top of our list.” A day later, Hostetter created a post on the @americanphoenixproject Instagram account with the spurious statistic at the heart of his extremist group’s credo. “Only 3% of Americans actually fought in our War of Independence,” Hostetter allegedly claimed, inaccurately. “There will likely be 3% of us again that will commit fully to this battle but, just as in 1776 patriots will prevail. Things are going to come to a head in the U.S. in the next several days. Stay tuned!” Prosecutors say that Taylor spoke at the Virginia Women for Trump rally the day before the siege, and he appeared to relish the pro-Trump mob’s actions on Jan. 6th, boasting on a Telegram chat late that afternoon: “I was pushing through traitors all day today. WE STORMED THE CAPITOL! Freedom was fully demonstrated today!” Hostetter likened it to the “shot heard round the world” and called that day a prelude to a protracted war, the indictment states. “That war lasted 8 years,” Hostetter is quoted saying, in reference to the American revolution. “We are just getting started.” In response to an unidentified person asking him what happens next, Taylor allegedly texted back: “Insurrection!” The grand jury charged all six with conspiring to obstruct and official proceeding, obstructing an official proceeding, and two counts of entering a restricted building or ground. Taylor is charged with unlawful possession of a dangerous weapon on Capitol grounds and obstructing law enforcement during a civil disorder. Kinnison and Warner each face a charge of tampering with documents. Shedding light on the seventh count, Kinnison is quoted in the indictment as having written: “I think we should clear all text in this chat the morning of the 5th just in case for opsec purposes.” Prosecutors claim Kinnison did just Read the indictment below: (Indictment at above url)
Jan. 2021: "I will murder Congress with this axe handle." May 2021: "Oww, jail bed make back all hurty" 'Back pain' didn't stop Proud Boy from threatening police with axe handle during Capitol riot, DOJ says Attorneys for William Chrestman say their client hasn't been able to get proper care while in the D.C. Jail. https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/...-says/65-e8bd5f59-9d83-4e84-ade4-e6fa5dc7d160 A Kansas Proud Boy charged in the Capitol riot has asked a judge to release him from jail due to chronic back pain – a condition, prosecutors say, which didn’t prevent him from allegedly wielding an axe handle against police outside the Capitol. William Chrestman, 47, was arrested in February along with four others connected to the Kansas City chapter of the Proud Boys. Photos from the Capitol riot appear to show Chrestman in tactical gear and a respirator and carrying a wooden axe handle. He faces multiple charges, including conspiracy, civil disorder and threatening to assault a federal law enforcement officer. (More about idiot at above url)