Dawsonville man arrested, charged in attack on U.S. Capitol

[SheltieLover]

https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/dawsonville-man-arrested-charged-attack-us-capitol/PRKUW75LONBC3IL4UJAFI2ITZA/

ATLANTA — A Dawsonville man is now the latest arrest in the attack on the U.S Capitol.

The FBI says Benjamin Torre told them he crawled through a broken window to get inside the Capitol during the riots in January. He also told them officers helped him and other protesters get inside.

“Torre stated that he drove to Washington, D.C., with his family, including his parents, on January 4, 2021. According to Torre, he did not go to the rally as part of any group, but because he is a ‘patriot.’ Torre stated that he attended the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally, during which he heard President Trump tell the crowd to ‘peacefully march to the Capitol,’” the criminal complaint against Torre said.

Torre told the FBI when he got to the Capitol Building, he saw people break the window of a door which someone then reached through and opened.

Mord at link.

[Leghorn21]

1. See ya 'round, kid

It’s all fun and games till

KNOCK KNOCK

[SheltieLover]

7. Yup!

And his whole family drove there?

[Just_Vote_Dem]

2. So many "patriots"...

Yeah right

[SheltieLover]

9. Family drove there! :-0

[Solly Mack]

3. I like how they all call themselves patriots.

It seems to be their code phrase for I'm a Qanon believing idiot.

[Dream Girl]

6. And they fancy themselves to be constitutional scholars

[Solly Mack]

11. They do! All of them.

It would be funny if they weren't so dangerous in their ignorance.

[SheltieLover]

10. It sure seems that way!

[Solly Mack]

14. I've seen it on shirts here, the "I'm a patriot" BS.

I always think, "Here's your sign".

[SheltieLover]

16. Yup - here too.

Sick.

[JHB]

4. "Torre reported that he thought to himself, 'If we were really as violent as people think we are...

... we could take that [cigarette and lighter] and light the sofa.’”

Instead, you just tried to set the entire government on fire over made-up horseshit. Aces, bro! Hope you didn't have any other plans for the next few years, because you're going to have a more pressing engagement.

[SheltieLover]

12. His family too!

Drove there together!

[Ilsa]

5. Glad the FBI got him. nt

[SheltieLover]

13. Me too!

Little shit wad.

[Mr. Ected]

8. Lives just down the road from me

But I can assure you, whatever it was that prompted him to mount an insurrection against our government isn't in the water here.

But they do think the south is going to rise again, apparently never having given up the confederacy.

[SheltieLover]

15. They don't realize they lost the Civil War!

I hear them talking & see T-shirts...



What are parents like? Article says family drove to DC together on 1/4...

[Mr. Ected]

17. If you don't live in an area where 90% of the locals are Trump fanatics

I couldn't begin to tell you what the parents are like, but suffice it to say they've gobbled up the rhetoric and the propaganda and they think you and I are their arch enemies. The hard thing, for me at least, was learning to cope when everyone, even the kids, thinks backwards. I sometimes have to go to the most liberal places on the planet - Denmark, for example - just to offset a year of this dissonance.

[SheltieLover]

18. I know exactly what you mean

Memphis here.

I was hoping the parents were politically oblivious...

Nice you are able to travel to decompress!