Retired Air Force officer intended to take hostages

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JANUARY 15, 2021 / 7:39 AM / AP

A retired Air Force officer who was part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week carried plastic zip-tie handcuffs because he intended "to take hostages," a prosecutor said in a Texas court on Thursday.

"He means to take hostages. He means to kidnap, restrain, perhaps try, perhaps execute members of the U.S. government," Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Weimer said of retired Lieutenant Colonel Larry Rendall Brock Jr. He did not provide specifics

The prosecutor had argued that Brock should be detained, but Magistrate Judge Jeffrey L. Cureton said he would release Brock to home confinement. Cureton ordered Brock to surrender any firearms and said he could have only limited internet access as conditions of that release ...

Weimer ... read in court social media posts from Brock, including one posted on the day of the Capitol riot that said: "Patriots on the Capitol. Patriots storming. Men with guns need to shoot their way in" ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/larry-brock-arrested-capitol-riots-intended-take-hostages/

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1. Houston police officer under investigation

By Duncan Agnew
Published: Jan. 15, 2021 at 10:27 AM EST|Updated: 50 minutes ago

An 18-year veteran of the Houston Police Department is under federal investigation for his participation in the riot at the U.S. Capitol last week, Houston police Chief Art Acevedo said at a press conference Wednesday afternoon ...

By Thursday morning, Acevedo announced on Twitter that the officer had resigned. The police chief added that the department will release the officer’s name when the Department of Justice and the FBI complete their joint investigation into the officer’s activities at the Capitol ...

https://www.cbs7.com/2021/01/15/houston-police-officer-under-investigation-after-participating-in-us-capitol-riot/

[exboyfil]

2. He wanted to take the VP hostage

and he had the means to do it.

Home confinement??????

[secondwind]

6. Seriously!

And a black mother was sentenced to five years in jail for falsifying her address, so her daughter could go to a better school...

Don't remember what State...

[yellowcanine]

3. The hell, the judge released him? Oh yeah, he is white

[Boomerproud]

4. Stupid Judge.

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5. LA sheriff's deputy admits being at riot

by: Cindy Von Quednow, Mark Mester
Posted: Jan 14, 2021 / 04:11 PM PST / Updated: Jan 14, 2021 / 05:06 PM PST

A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department deputy has admitted to being at the U.S. Capitol during the violent insurrection last week, Sheriff Alex Villanueva announced Thursday.

The sheriff gave no details about the deputy during a Facebook Live or in a statement released after, but indicated that he had contacted the FBI to inform investigators.

“I am very concerned one of my deputies may have been involved in wrongdoing at the U.S. Capitol,” Villanueva said in the statement. “We have initiated an administrative inquiry into the matter” ...

https://ktla.com/news/local-news/l-a-county-sheriffs-deputy-admits-to-being-at-u-s-capitol-during-riot/

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7. Siege included highly trained ex-military and cops

Updated 6:45 AM; Today 6:45 AM
By Michael Biesecker and Jake Bleiberg and James Laporta | The Associated Press

As President Donald Trump’s supporters massed outside the Capitol last week and sang the national anthem, a line of men wearing olive-drab helmets and body armor trudged purposefully up the marble stairs in a single-file line, each man holding the jacket collar of the one ahead.

The formation, known as “Ranger File,” is standard operating procedure for a combat team that is “stacking up” to breach a building — instantly recognizable to any U.S. soldier or Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was a chilling sign that many at the vanguard of the mob that stormed the seat of American democracy either had military training or were trained by those who did.

An Associated Press review of public records, social media posts and videos shows at least 21 current or former members of the U.S. military or law enforcement have been identified as being at or near the Capitol riot, with more than a dozen others under investigation but not yet named. In many cases, those who stormed the Capitol appeared to employ tactics, body armor and technology such as two-way radio headsets that were similar to those of the very police they were confronting.

Experts in homegrown extremism have warned for years about efforts by far-right militants and white-supremacist groups to radicalize and recruit people with military and law enforcement training, and they say the Jan. 6 insurrection that left five people dead saw some of their worst fears realized ...

https://www.masslive.com/politics/2021/01/capitol-riot-trump-supporters-who-sieged-building-included-highly-trained-ex-military-and-cops.html

[MagickMuffin]

8. And of course the media the troops are fed the diet of propaganda

By far right wing extremist. This has always been by design. The media was their recruitment tool for their invisible army.

We are seeing the fruits of that manifestation in real time.

[UpInArms]

9. They should stop bonding these traitors

Easy: Bond denied. Hold for hearing.

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10. Virginia Army National Guardsman charged

By COREY DICKSTEIN | STARS AND STRIPES
Published: January 14, 2021

A Virginia Army National Guard soldier faces federal charges for participating in the siege last week of the U.S. Capitol that briefly delayed Congress from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s election victory, defense and Justice Department officials said Thursday.

Jacob Fracker, a corporal in the Virginia Guard, was arrested and charged Wednesday with one count of knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, officials said. Charging documents state Fracker entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 amid an attack by some supporters of President Donald Trump and he confirmed he participated via social media posts.

Fracker is the first known service member to have been directly involved in the siege of the Capitol or charged in connection to it ...

https://www.stripes.com/news/us/virginia-army-national-guardsman-charged-in-us-capitol-riot-1.658581

[stillcool]

11. makes me feel so safe.

Government officials are outing themselves all over the country.

[mopinko]

12. ffs. at least hold these traitors til after next week.

[sarcasmo]

13. Crazed white guy released on bail, only in America.

[obamanut2012]

14. And he is out on bond

JFC.

The Boston Marathon Bomber wasn't allowed to bond out with a SCRAM.

[dalton99a]

15. Antifa leading the charge:

[lark]

16. Cureton is a right wing hack who cares nothing for the security of our country.

If the Col. does anything on/around the 20th, hope Cureton gets removed from office at the least. He's helping drumpf overturn our country.