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Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson (R) says he didn’t feel threatened when the Capitol was stormed due to the political beliefs of the Trump-supporting rioters, while adding that that may not have been the case had said rioters been associated with either Black Lives Matter or Antifa. Johnson’s comments came on Thursday during a syndicated-radio program called The Joe […]
A Montana man involved in the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6 is facing federal charges. Isaac Steve Sturgeon has been hit with a total of eight counts, including assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers—and if convicted, he could be imprisoned for up to 20 years. He’s been released on a $250,000 bond and is […]
A bill in Kentucky that advanced through the state’s Senate committee on Thursday would make it a crime to insult or taunt a police officer during a riot, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. Senate Bill 211, or SB211, stipulates that anyone who “accosts, insults, taunts, or challenges a law enforcement officer with offensive or derisive words,” or […]
A retired NYPD officer and former Marine turned himself in at the FBI’s Hudson Valley office on Monday for allegedly assaulting a cop during the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, CNN reports. Thomas Webster, 52, has been accused of striking a Capitol police officer several times with an aluminum pole holding a Marine Corps flag. Assistant […]
A prison in downtown St. Louis was briefly overtaken by inmates in an uprising that began this morning and lasted several hours. The inmate revolt began early on the morning of Feb. 6 while a guard and an inmate were in a scuffle. Authorities claim that other inmates jumped the guard, incapacitating him before freeing other […]
The incarcerated “QAnon Shaman” will finally get his organic food. According to Politco, a federal judge has ordered a Washington, D.C., jail to provide an organic diet for Jacob Chansley, one of the Trump supporters who has been charged in connection to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. The order came just hours after Chansley’s attorney, Albert Watkins, filed an […]
After the insurrection at the U.S Capitol building by pro-Trump extremist failed, it looks as though the aftermath has shaken up the Republican party, making many Republican voters change affiliations. According to a report that Newsweek cites from The Hill on Wednesday, over 30,000 Republican voters across several states have changed their political alignment in […]
Like clockwork, the once loud and abrasive pro-Trump rioters who stormed the capitol building just a few weeks ago are starting to lose some of their once strong convictions to the failed second-term president. One participant in the insurrection, the virally pictured shirtless, horned man Jake Angelo, who was later identified and imprisoned after the riot, has now said that […]
Criticism is stacking up in connection with 20-year-old Emanual Jackson, a participant in the violent Capitol riot earlier this month who’s now said to have been denied bail. Jackson, who is Black, turned himself in to the Metropolitan Police Department in D.C. on Jan. 18 and confirmed that he was seen in footage from the riot […]
In today’s bit of unsurprising news, people who bragged openly about committing federal crimes continue to be arrested by federal agents. The latest Capital rioter to be taken into custody is 34-year-old Garrett Miller, who posted unmasked photos of himself inside the Capitol shortly after tweeting death threats at Congressional representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, NBC News […]
