Morning Briefing: Anti-LGBTIQ Activist Convicted for Participating in Capitol Riot
Morning Briefing: Anti-LGBTIQ Activist Convicted for Participating in Capitol Riot
Mark Sahady, vice president of the far right anti-LGBTIQ group Super Happy Fun America, was 'convicted on four charges connected with his actions' during the Capitol Riot.
Morning Briefing: Mark Sahady, vice president of the far right anti-LGBTIQ group Super Happy Fun America, was “convicted on four charges connected with his actions during the insurrection of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.”
Daniel Embree has been “charged following the investigation of signs posted on the doors of Latino-owned businesses in Hampton,” and the charges include “eight counts of second-degree harassment, and trespassing with intent to commit a hate crime.”
Joshua Colston was sentenced to prison “after taking part in online discussions to kidnap and attack federal officials on Thanksgiving in 2022,” and Colston will “serve 48 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release,” according to statement from the U.S. Justice Department.
John Carl was reportedly arrested and “facing charges related to his alleged actions during the breach of the US Capitol,” and according to court documents, “Carl was shown in front of the crowd clashing with police.”
Daniel Collins was reportedly “arrested for resisting law enforcement officers and other charges” related to the Capitol Riot, and Collins allegedly “climbed the northwest staircase leading to the Upper West Terrace of the Capitol Building before entering at 2:19 p.m. via emergency exit doors also known as the Senate Wing Doors.”
In Brighton, Michigan, a group of White Supremacists staged a protest which reportedly “involved less than a dozen members of a group that seemed to resemble demonstrators in Howell last month,” and local law enforcement “received some calls about the demonstration, but did not get any reports about intimidation or threats.”
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Joshua Kaplan writes that “the public’s impression of American militias is dominated by Jan. 6, 2021. Groups such as the Proud Boys had plotted to prevent the transfer of power from Trump to Joe Biden. They formed the vanguard of the mob that stormed the Capitol that day, according to the Department of Justice. Media coverage since has centered on the prosecutions of participants, with hundreds of rioters sent to prison. But despite the riot and its fallout, militias are far from extinct. AP3 has expanded at a dramatic pace since Jan. 6, while keeping much of its activity out of view. This rise is documented in more than 100,000 internal messages obtained by ProPublica, spanning the run-up to Jan. 6 through early 2024. Along with extensive interviews with 22 current and former members of AP3, the records provide a uniquely detailed inside view of the militia movement at a crucial moment. The messages reveal how AP3 leaders have forged alliances with law enforcement around the country and show the ways in which, despite an initial crackdown by social media, they have attracted a new wave of recruits.” [ProPublica]
David Kirkpatrick writes that “Patriot Front has just a few hundred members, and scholars who study the far right say that only about a hundred thousand Americans actively participate in organized white-nationalist groups. But the assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021—and the deadly riot in Charlottesville before that—proved that even just a few hundred organized men can spearhead a devastating, history-making mob. Moreover, the far right’s online promotion of the great-replacement theory to countless sympathizers is accumulating an ominous death toll. In the past decade, lone gunmen inspired by far-right propaganda have killed nine Black churchgoers in Charleston (2015), eleven Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh (2018), twenty-three Walmart shoppers in El Paso (2019), and ten Black residents of Buffalo (2022). Inside Patriot Front and across the far right, these mass murderers are venerated with the title of ‘saint’—as in ‘Saint Dylann Roof,’ who carried out the Charleston massacre.” [The New Yorker]
Charlie Savage, Jonathan Swan, and Maggie Haberman write that “during his time out of power, allies of Mr. Trump have worked on policy papers to provide legal justifications for the former president’s intent to use the military to enforce the law domestically. In public, they have talked about this in the context of border states and undocumented immigrants. But an internal email from a group closely aligned with Mr. Trump, obtained by The Times, shows that, privately, the group was also exploring using troops to ‘stop riots’ by protesters… In recent years, administrations of both parties — including Mr. Biden’s — have sometimes used the military at the border when surges of migrants have threatened to overwhelm the civilian agents. But the troops have helped by taking over back-office administration and support functions, freeing up more ICE and Border Patrol agents to go into the field. The idea Mr. Trump and his advisers are playing with is to go beyond that by using regular troops to patrol the border and arrest people.” [The New York Times]
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Racist thugs are extremely dangerous. Glad that these guys are incarcerated