Morning Briefing: More than 1,000 People Charged for Capitol Riot
Morning Briefing: More than 1,000 People Charged for Capitol Riot
More than 1,000 people have been arrested and charged for participating in the Capitol Riot, and the DOJ could 'ultimately bring indictments against as many as 1,000 more in the months to come.'
Morning Briefing: Federal prosecutors have “prosecutors have charged nearly 1,100 people” in connection with the January 6th Insurrection, and among those who have been charged “more than 350 people charged so far stand accused of assaulting police officers, including about 110 who used a deadly or dangerous weapon.”
In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, banners displaying the logo of Patriot Front, the neo-fascist White Nationalist group, had reportedly “suddenly appeared in several locations throughout the city, draped prominently over roads in high-traffic areas.” There were four banners identified throughout the city, including “two near Essen Lane, one near Acadian Thruway and one by Memorial Stadium.”
Members of Patriot Front “have filed a federal lawsuit, claiming an ‘antifa’ member infiltrated their group with the intention of doxxing members.”
Federal law enforcement is reportedly “aiding the investigation of a spate of antisemitic incidents that occurred in Pensacola, Florida.” The Chabad Jewish Center was targeted with an attack when a “brick covered with antisemitic messages came crashing through the center’s window,” and Temple Beth El was also targeted with an attack when “two bricks with antisemitic language written on them were thrown through a bathroom window.”
James Brandon, chief of police in Southlake, Texas, announced that two police officers had been fired for an incident involving “swastika that was drawn and shared with others during a break in a meeting involving members of the police department.”
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Hunter Walker reports that “Special counsel Jack Smith’s indictment of former President Donald Trump details a sweeping criminal conspiracy to reverse his loss in the 2020 election. Smith described a marked shift away from legitimate election challenges toward a strategy in which the President and those close to him used ‘knowing deceit in the targeted states to impair, obstruct, and defeat the federal government function.’ And Smith identified one day as the key turning point when the plot veered from political gamesmanship into deliberate falsehoods: November 13, 2020. Text messages obtained by Talking Points Memo — most which have not previously been made public — paint a picture of what was going on behind the scenes in the White House during the crucial period the special prosecutor has zeroed in on.” [Talking Points Memo]
Devon Heinen writes that “over the years, people with far-right ideologies have made their presence known in the United States. They’ve taken warped, twisted stances on things, like race, religion, the federal government. They’ve gotten steamrolled by conspiracy theories and spread them. Lives have been lost. But that hasn’t been all. Members of the far right in the U.S. have tried to reshape things closer to home: the communities they live in. That night in August, Williamson County was in the crosshairs. The attention wasn’t new. Just like it wasn’t for the state overall. None of it would dissipate.” [Tennessee Lookout]
Chrissy Stroop writes that “The under-regulation of homeschooling and Christian schools is a nationwide issue – one Americans should be even more concerned about in light of the recent growth of homeschooling and state-funded “school choice” programmes. The book-banning right’s current moral panic over LGBTIQ inclusion and so-called “critical race theory” in public schools, with “parental rights” as its rallying cry, has led to a renewed legislative push for “choice” in conservative states. This follows on the heels of an apparently very successful right-wing effort to use the pandemic to attack public schools – not least over reasonable vaccination and masking policies – and popularise Christian extremist homeschooling and private schools.” [openDemocracy]
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