Capitol Insurrection

Videos Released: FBI Seeks Public Help in Identifying Suspects Who Assaulted Police Officers During Capitol Insurrection

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Staff Report – The FBI’s Washington Field Office has released new information and videos showing suspects in the most egregious assaults on federal police officers during the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, and is seeking the public’s help to identify them (videos below). It has been two months since violent extremists breached…

More Right-Wing Extremists Arrested for Threatening Congress

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Staff Report – The Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to make arrests of right-wing extremists for threatening members of Congress, according to new announcements from the United States Department of Justice. Jaap Willem Lijbers, a Dutch national and member of the Bugaloo Bois, was arrested Tuesday on a federal criminal complaint charging him with illegal…

Capitol Insurrection Investigation: Senate Hearings Probe Defense Officials

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By Glynn Wilson – The public will get another chance to hear from Defense Department, intelligence agency and law enforcement officials this week in another Congressional hearing called to investigate the violent insurrection at the United States Capitol on January 6. It was a historic tragedy for American democracy incited by the former president and…

Evidence the Racist, Trump Insurrection is Not Over

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Pennsylvania Lawyer Indicted For Threatening To Murder Members of the Senate – Staff Report – In a case of clear evidence that the right-wing, racist Trump insurrection against American Democracy is not over, a Conservative Pennsylvania lawyer has been arrested and indicted by a federal grand jury for threatening to murder members of the United…

Man From Maine Man Arrested and Charged in Capitol Breach

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Staff Report – A man from Lebanon Maine was arrested Thursday and appeared in U.S. District Court Friday on charges stemming from his assault on local law enforcement officers, as well as other crimes, during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 that disrupted a Joint Session of the U.S. Congress in the…

Another Member of the Proud Boys Charged with Obstructing an Official Proceeding

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Staff Report – Another member of the Proud Boys, a nationalistic, chauvinist domestic terrorist organization, was arrested Thursday and charged in federal court in the District of Columbia with obstructing or impeding an official proceeding, among other charges, according to a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice. Ethan Nordean, aka Rufio Panman, 30,…

Proud Boys Charged With Conspiracy in Capitol Insurrection

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By Glynn Wilson – The New York Times is now reporting that the first “conspiracy” to obstruct Capitol Police and Congress charges have been filed against two members of the far-right nationalist group the Proud Boys as of Friday night, according to federal prosecutors investigating the violent riot and insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on…

Oath Keepers Indicted in Federal Court for Conspiracy to Obstruct Congress

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By Glynn Wilson – Three individuals associated with the Oath Keepers, a radical right-wing paramilitary group focused on recruitment of current and former military, law enforcement and first responders, were indicted Thursday in federal court in the District of Columbia for conspiring to obstruct Congress in a violent insurrection on Jan. 6. Jessica Marie Watkins,…

More Domestic Terrorists Arrested and Charged in U.S. Capitol Breach

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Staff Report – More charges and arrests are coming to light in the violent attack on the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 from the U.S. Department of Justice, according to press releases just out from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in spite of a report out from The Washington Post over the weekend that…