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Good morning. I'm starting Thread #15 of posts about new arrests at the Capitol and updates on ongoing cases. Previous threads can be found below.https://twitter.com/alanfeuer/status/1373957293365211140 …
Noted white nationalist Tim "Baked Alaska" Gionet is asking a judge to remove his GPS monitor pretrial b/c he has "led an exemplary life," raised in a Christian home & attending private Christian schools. Once, he says, he even made a music video titled "We Love Our Cops."pic.twitter.com/eW1P2AKPg3
I believe this fact--from a detention memo in the case of Montana man Jerod Hughes filed yesterday--is new: There were Montana Proud Boys in the first wave of rioters to breach the building at "the tip of the spear" with Proud Boy Dominic Pezzola & Oath Keeper Robert Gieswein.pic.twitter.com/y7SOzSU7Zo
This new DC circuit ruling in the case of Eric "Zip Tie Guy" Munchel is gonna be oft-quoted. It strikes at the heart of tensions in the Capitol inquiry. While it's clear that cop assaulters, vandals & preplanners are guilty of serious crime, what about those who merely went in?pic.twitter.com/m7OhUzpxL1
The ruling, which sent the issue of bail for Munchel (& his mom) back to the district court for more argument acknowledges the seriousness of Jan. 6 but wants "the facts & circumstances of each case" to be fully and fairly heard.pic.twitter.com/2JrJ99vMmi
And just like that: the circuit's decision in Munchel is the very first thing discussed at a bail hearing that just started for accused Oath Keeper defendant Connie Meggs.
One thing's for sure: meting out individualized justice for a mob activity like the riot at the Capitol is and will remain a tough task. Can defendants in a mob be held accountable for the actions of those 5 feet away? 10 feet? Or not at all? Judges are trying to figure it out.
DECISION: Judge Amit Mehta, for instance, has just released accused Oath Keeper Donovan Crowl--the second Oath Keeper defendant freed pretrial today. Judge Mehta ruled that there wasn't enough evidence that Crowl had committed violence at the Capitol or was a danger to community.
In a new detention memo, prosecutors say that North Carolina Proud Boy leader Charles Donohoe took to Telegram after the attack on the Capitol and said the events of Jan. 6 made him "feel like a complete warrior."pic.twitter.com/Y5XyjDuOc7
Prosecutors say that more than an hour after the Capitol was breached, NC Proud Boy leader Charles Donohoe announced over a group chat that he was regrouping w/ "a second force." But the plan was short-lived as Nat Guard and federal agents were "incoming," Donohoe wrote.pic.twitter.com/RWnA9id8ut
A lawyer for Patrick McCaughey, charged w/assaulting cops at the Capitol, goes full scorched earth in her opposition to delay her client's case. The Capitol inquiry, she says, is "the largest political witch hunt in DOJ history," adding people are "surely ready to move on..."pic.twitter.com/yzTzjuqqKB
Prosecutors have unsealed new charges in the Capitol riot against Matthew Loganbill, a firearms dealer from Missouri. A cooperating witness told the FBI Loganbill was a "hothead" who had grown embittered over financial losses because of the COVID pandemic.pic.twitter.com/LLf7XlF78Q
Zeke Stecher of Sewell NJ was in the violent melee w/police in the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol. The FBI was able to ID after speaking w/a local farmer who bought produce from Stecher & knew him for more than 10 years.pic.twitter.com/Q0ugelRRpY
In a new filing, prosecutors say that Texas man Garret Miller wanted to locate the Black police officer he believed shot Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol and "hug his neck w/a nice rope." "He will swing," Miller wrote on Facebook.pic.twitter.com/7zXYxpI6CZ
Prosecutors say that when Miller confronted cops inside the Capitol, he dropped into a "fighting stance" with one leg in front of the other. “OOOH! OW! OW! OW!” he yelled at them. The officers, the new filing says, ultimately pushed him back.pic.twitter.com/FsIwf5VEiZ
After Texan Christian Cortez was hit in the face by police pepper spray at the Capitol, he stepped forward, flailed his arms and yelled twice, "Do it some fuckin' more," according to a new complaint. The cops obliged, prosecutors say, spraying him w/a fire extinguishing retardantpic.twitter.com/8gZIPzmCua
The FBI interviewed Russel Dean Alford at his place of business, Alford's Paint & Body Shop in Hokes Bluff, Ala. on Jan. 20. As soon as the agents flashed their badges, Alford said “I wondered when y’all were going to show up. Guess you’ve seen the videos on my Facebook page.”pic.twitter.com/KVe4Ny01X9
Lawyers for Seattle Proud Boy leader Ethan Nordean have gone thru 1500 pages of the group's Telegram chats provided as discovery. The chats show, they say, that there was no plan to invade the Capitol and "no coherent organization whatsoever."pic.twitter.com/ZXaxwYimfw
Nordean's lawyers also say there couldn't have been a plan by the Proud Boys to storm the Capitol b/c--wait for it--they had booked punk singer Michale Graves of the Misfits to play at their Airbnb in DC on Jan. 6. 
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In papers filed overnight, Florida Proud Boy Joe Biggs says that in July 2020 he started meeting w/a Dayton Beach-based FBI agent to "share information about Antifa networks operating in Florida and elsewhere."pic.twitter.com/qjfLanW6GI
The new Biggs papers oppose a new govt request to jail him pretrial. Biggs' argument is that the FBI knew about his "political commentary and role in planning events" since last July. The FBI, he says, "arguably benefited" from his intel on Antifa.pic.twitter.com/HcRgvLQ3e1
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