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Must-read: Thread & govt court filing on female Oath Keeper's preparations for & storming of Capitol
PDF of the entire government filing this morning is here:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20477513/2-11-21-us-detention-memo-jessica-watkins.pdf
The United States respectfully files this memorandum in support of pre-trial detention for
the defendant, Jessica Watkins. As set forth below, Watkins traveled to Washington D.C. and
“forced entry into the Capitol building” because of her professed belief that the newly-elected
government is illegitimate. Moreover, as evidenced by her conduct leading up to, during, and after
the attack on the Capitol, Watkins exhibited a single-minded devotion to obstruct through violence
an official proceeding that, on January 6, was designed to confirm the next President of the United
States. Crimes of this magnitude, committed with such zeal, belie any conditions of release that
would reasonably assure the safety of the community or by which Watkins could be trusted to
abide.
Clad in camouflaged battle fatigues, a tactical vest emblazoned with an Oath Keepers
patch, combat boots, military grade helmet, and radio equipment, Watkins and her fellow Oath
Keepers militia members were among those hundreds of insurgents who stormed the Capitol on
January 6, 2021. But unlike the vast majority, Watkins had trained and plotted for a moment like
this. As she told co-conspirators and sympathizers coordinating and rooting on the insurgency
over the encrypted “Stop the Steal J6” Zello1 app channel, “We have a good group. We have about
30-40 of us. We are sticking together and sticking to the plan.” Moments after the Vice President
of the United States, Senators, and staff were hurriedly evacuated in the midst of certifying the
results of the 2020 Presidential election, that plan became chillingly clear when an unknown male
instructed over the channel, “You are executing citizen’s arrest. Arrest this assembly, we have
probable cause for acts of treason, election fraud.”
For Watkins, this was a moment to relish in the swirling violence in the air. After marching
to the Capitol in a para-military “stack” tactical formation, penetrating the building through a door
breached by insurgents, and pushing past a law enforcement officer engulfed by the swelling
crowd, Watkins gleefully exclaimed over the channel, “We are in the mezzanine. We are in the
main dome right now. We are rocking it. They are throwing grenades, they are fricking shooting
people with paint balls. But we are in here.” An unknown male cautioned over the channel for
her to be safe, and stated, “Get it, Jess. Do your fucking thing. This is what we fucking
[unintelligible] up for. Everything we fucking trained for.”
-snip-
the defendant, Jessica Watkins. As set forth below, Watkins traveled to Washington D.C. and
“forced entry into the Capitol building” because of her professed belief that the newly-elected
government is illegitimate. Moreover, as evidenced by her conduct leading up to, during, and after
the attack on the Capitol, Watkins exhibited a single-minded devotion to obstruct through violence
an official proceeding that, on January 6, was designed to confirm the next President of the United
States. Crimes of this magnitude, committed with such zeal, belie any conditions of release that
would reasonably assure the safety of the community or by which Watkins could be trusted to
abide.
Clad in camouflaged battle fatigues, a tactical vest emblazoned with an Oath Keepers
patch, combat boots, military grade helmet, and radio equipment, Watkins and her fellow Oath
Keepers militia members were among those hundreds of insurgents who stormed the Capitol on
January 6, 2021. But unlike the vast majority, Watkins had trained and plotted for a moment like
this. As she told co-conspirators and sympathizers coordinating and rooting on the insurgency
over the encrypted “Stop the Steal J6” Zello1 app channel, “We have a good group. We have about
30-40 of us. We are sticking together and sticking to the plan.” Moments after the Vice President
of the United States, Senators, and staff were hurriedly evacuated in the midst of certifying the
results of the 2020 Presidential election, that plan became chillingly clear when an unknown male
instructed over the channel, “You are executing citizen’s arrest. Arrest this assembly, we have
probable cause for acts of treason, election fraud.”
For Watkins, this was a moment to relish in the swirling violence in the air. After marching
to the Capitol in a para-military “stack” tactical formation, penetrating the building through a door
breached by insurgents, and pushing past a law enforcement officer engulfed by the swelling
crowd, Watkins gleefully exclaimed over the channel, “We are in the mezzanine. We are in the
main dome right now. We are rocking it. They are throwing grenades, they are fricking shooting
people with paint balls. But we are in here.” An unknown male cautioned over the channel for
her to be safe, and stated, “Get it, Jess. Do your fucking thing. This is what we fucking
[unintelligible] up for. Everything we fucking trained for.”
-snip-
Thread from BuzzFeed's Zoe Tillman, linking to the PDF of that government filing, starts with this tweet:
Link to tweet
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I'm going to have to bookmark it for now and come back. But I can't wait to dig into this.
Thank you for posting this.
she's asking permission to get married in Chili or Argentina and has already made plans. 
