Coup in the USA?

[Innula Zenovka]

DC police made far more arrests at the height of Black Lives Matter protests than during the Capitol clash | CNN

Washington, DC's Metropolitan Police Department made roughly five times as many arrests during the height of last June's Black Lives Matter protests compared to the US Capitol insurrection on Wednesday, a CNN analysis of the police department's data found.

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Far more were charged with felony rioting during the BLM protests. Many were charged with felony rioting, not the misdemeanor unlawful entry.

See also:

Rioters breached US Capitol security on Wednesday. This was the police response when it was Black protesters on DC streets last year | CNN

As hundreds of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol, breaking windows and wreaking havoc, politicians and activists were among the many who drew comparisons between the police response on Wednesday to that of last year's Black Lives Matter protests.

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Obviously I don't understand too well how US prosecutions like this work, but I wonder if, in a case like this, Unlawful Entry isn't the default charging offence which they can easily prove -- if the defendant has helpfully uploaded a selfie, then there's little argument about whether they were unlawfully inside the Capitol building -- and others can be added to the indictment as investigators interview the defendant and witnesses, examine the contents of the defendant's cellphone and social media accounts, and so on.

By the time the case is ready to come to trial, the defendant may be facing much more serious charges alongside unlawful entry.

 

[Free]

Bill Barr Wants Protesters Charged With Trying to Overthrow the U.S. Government

Are you surprised?

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(I'm being tricksy here. Check the article date...)

 

[Jolene Benoir]

This is...something.

More on that:

2 women seen punching people in a viral social media video the night before the pro-Trump attempted coup have been charged with assault

A protest by pro-Trump supporters in Washington, DC, became a brawl the night before the insurrection at the US Capitol on Wednesday.

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Helena affirmed the statements in her tweets in an interview with Insider. She said her mother told her that Black Lives Matter protests were dangerous and incited violence. Helena said Therese wouldn't let her attend Black Lives Matter rallies in Central Massachusetts, but that Helena still went. "When she [Therese Duke] found out about it, she told me that if I was going to be doing those things, I was not allowed to be under her roof," Helena Duke said. "I was kicked out for about two weeks. "

Helena said her mother had told her she was accompanying Lorenz to get a medical procedure during the time of the attempted coup. When Helena noticed her mother's cell phone location tracking had been turned off, she grew concerned. She did not know her mother was in Washington, DC, until the morning after the assault took place — Helena got a text from her cousin with the video of her mother being punched in the face. "I asked her where she was and she never answered that," Helena Duke said. "Then I asked her how her nose was and that was the last of that conversation."

"Last night around 1 a.m. to 2 a.m., both of them had contacted me, tried to repeatedly call me, and texted me that they are going to press charges against me and to say goodbye to my college, say goodbye to my career, and say goodbye to my life," Duke said.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

US Capitol rioters say sorry as FBI starts to round them up

It had seemed a good idea at the time: storm the US Capitol, swing from the Senate balcony, sit in the vice-president’s chair and yell with a raised fist: “Trum

www.thetimes.co.uk

Evernote link because paywall

 

[Free]

US Capitol rioters say sorry as FBI starts to round them up

It had seemed a good idea at the time: storm the US Capitol, swing from the Senate balcony, sit in the vice-president’s chair and yell with a raised fist: “Trum

www.thetimes.co.uk

But it's a revolution.

Aren't they having a revolution?

John Adams never said he was sorry.

George Washington never said he was sorry.

Babies.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

But it's a revolution.

Aren't they having a revolution?

John Adams never said he was sorry.

George Washington never said he was sorry.

Babies.

From the story

Photographers later captured him swinging from the balcony of the Senate chamber, then sitting in the chair Mike Pence, the vice-president, had vacated. Mr Colt had thought that he was in the House of Representatives, occupying Ms Pelosi’s seat. “That bitch, she’s a traitor, she’s treasonous,” he said on video after he left. After he became aware of the reaction, he complained: “I didn’t hurt anybody . . . I don’t know what to do, I’m all over the news now.”

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

I'll bet odds that he's former Air Force. if people want to know why i think that, feel free to ask and I'll explain.

And you win!

An Air Force Combat Veteran Breached the Senate

The Texas-based pilot was with a group that descended on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office suite.

www.newyorker.com

A day after the riots, John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, at the University of Toronto’s Munk School, notified the F.B.I. that he suspected the man was retired Lieutenant Colonel Larry Rendall Brock, Jr., a Texas-based Air Force Academy graduate and combat veteran.

Evernote link because paywall

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Quite the epic thread, Pancake !

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Does Video Show Capitol Police Opening Gates for Rioters?

Footage of law enforcement officers supposedly condoning trespassing garnered millions of views.

www.snopes.com

 

[Free]

Quite the epic thread, Pancake !

And to think it started in Pennsylvania...

 

[Free]

Websites For The Coup Rally Organizers Have Quietly Been Erased From The Web

The groups that organized Wednesday’s “March to Save America” — the “Stop the Steal” demonstration that turned into an attack...

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The groups that organized Wednesday’s “March to Save America” — the “Stop the Steal” demonstration that turned into an attack on the nation’s legislature — are quietly disappearing from the internet.

Instead, web surfers eager to find out more about the groups behind Wednesday’s violence found blank white pages. It wasn’t clear whether the organizations had removed the pages on their own, or if the take-downs were the result of malicious attacks or the actions of web service providers.

The March to Save America’s primary webpage, TrumpMarch.com, was last live sometime on Thursday, according to archived versions of the page on Internet Archive. Attempts to reach the URL now lead to nothing. MarchToSaveAmerica.com also appears to have gone down Thursday.

Similarly, the page for “Wild Protest” — which was named after the President Donald Trump’s December tweet predicting Wednesday’s event “will be wild!” — was blank on Friday. That page also disappeared on Thursday, archived copies suggest.

The revolution will not be hosted.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Arkady Arkright]

Could be but those things aren't set up in a day. I don't see many options for them right now.

I expect Putin will make a Russian service available...

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

I'll bet odds that he's former Air Force. if people want to know why i think that, feel free to ask and I'll explain.

Nailed it, btw.


This is helmet guy, not ballcap guy, btw. Although ballcap guy has also been identified, as seen above.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

And you win!

An Air Force Combat Veteran Breached the Senate

The Texas-based pilot was with a group that descended on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office suite.

www.newyorker.com

Evernote link because paywall

Sure, buddy

He claimed that he had found the zip-tie handcuffs on the floor. “I wish I had not picked those up,” he told me. “My thought process there was I would pick them up and give them to an officer when I see one. .

So much economic anxiety

Brock, a fifty-three-year-old father of three who lives in an affluent suburb of Dallas, graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1989, with a major in international relations and affairs.

I look forward to an article stating that he has been arrested vs one that states he was interviewed.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Nailed it, btw.


This is helmet guy, not ballcap guy, btw. Although ballcap guy has also been identified, as seen above.

Interview with flex cuff guy #1. In it, he states that he's very concerned about where the country is going morallly, how we are as humans in our hearts to strangers , says that if the person interviewing him was on the opposite side of the fence we'd just be yelling at each other, spitting in each other's face. I'm more concerned where our country is going person to person...To attack one human to another without any context, without any prior knowledge of who you are, where you are from, who you were raised by...it scares me more than a politically moved (his word) attack, religiously moved attack...You forget to feel the emotions of the man next to you....Our common goal is to achieve peace and unity....We're always trying to strive towards a unity....and when something is trying to drive you towards not being unified, that's where you gotta be careful. My message to you people is to know when you're being driven away from unity...I'm just a hidden patriot ready to jump off. Be good, be safe, spread positivity.

Same man enters the capitol with military gear, a knife, a taser, flex cuffs. Hmmm...I wonder how much unity was in his heart then and just how he planned to "spread positivity". He appears, on the video, to be quite the bullshitter, but his actions present quite another picture. Looking forward to seeing him arrested as well.

Edit: Full video:

 

[Jolene Benoir]

How the far-right orchestrated the Capitol riots

For one strange moment, it looked as if the US Capitol Building had been invaded by Vikings – but none of it was spontaneous.

www.smh.com.au

On mainstream social networks, such discussions rarely appeared to feature calls for violence, but on smaller fringe services, seasoned extremist groups plotted to use the protests as a springboard for civil war. One key venue was a splinter site created by exiles from a now-banned Reddit community.

"What if Congress ignores the evidence?" asked a post seen by Buzzfeed. "Storm the Capitol," said a reply. "Armed with rifle, handgun, two knives and as much ammo as you can carry," another user wrote.

A post on December 30 read: "I'm thinking it will be literal war on that day. Where we'll storm offices and physically remove and even kill all the DC traitors and reclaim the country."

Not that Facebook was entirely peaceful. A pro-Trump group called Red State Secession, with almost 8000 followers, asked users to gather information about "the addresses and residences of our political enemies in DC", as well as "their routes to and from" the Senate ceremony. The group now appears to have been deleted.

Yet Renee DiResta, the technical research manager at Stanford internet Observatory, argues that those bigger social networks are partly responsible for bringing the country to this point in the first place. At times, tech firms' algorithms appear to have acted as recruiting sergeants, learning what kinds of people were already interested in radical messages and then pushing them out to similar users on a massive scale.

 

[Fionalein]

4 years too late:

Twitter bans President Trump permanently | CNN Business

Twitter has suspended President Trump from its platform, the company said Friday evening.

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