emptywheel: DOJ Arresting Their Way to Clarity on Joe Biggs' Two Breaches of the Capitol

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DOJ Arresting Their Way to Clarity on Joe Biggs' Two Breaches of the Capitol

DOJ Arresting Their Way to Clarity on Joe Biggs' Two Breaches of the Capitol | emptywheel
In recent weeks, the government arrested two of the guys who breached the Capitol twice, on two different sides, along with Joe Biggs.
emptywheel.net
11:04 AM · Apr 3, 2021

https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/04/03/doj-arresting-their-way-to-clarity-on-joe-biggs-two-breaches-of-the-capitol/

The Proud Boys Leadership conspiracy indictment describes that Joe Biggs breached the Capitol twice.

He entered first on the northeast side through a door opened after Dominic Pezzola broke through an adjacent window with a riot shield.

At 2:14 p.m., BIGGS entered the Capitol building through a door on the northwest side. The door was opened after a Proud Boys member, Dominic Pezzola, charged elsewhere, used a riot shield at 2:13 p.m. to break window allowed rioters to enter the building and force open an adjacent door from the inside. BIGGS and Proud Boys members Gilbert Garcia, William Pepe, and Joshua Pruitt, each of whom are charged elsewhere, entered the same door within two minutes of its opening. At 2:19 p.m., a member of the Boots on the Ground channel posted, “We just stormed the capitol.”

Then, Biggs left the building, walked around it, took a selfie from the east side, then forced his way in the east side and headed from there to the Senate.

BIGGS subsequently exited the Capitol, and BIGGS and several Proud Boys posed for a picture at the top of the steps on the east side of the Capitol.

Thirty minutes after first entering the Capitol on the west side, BIGGS and two other members of the Proud boys, among others, forcibly re-entered the Capitol through the Columbus Doors on the east side of the Capitol, pushing past at least one law enforcement officer and entering the Capitol directly in front of a group of individuals affiliated with the Oath Keepers. [my emphasis]

Understanding Biggs’ actions — including whether they were coordinated with the Oath Keepers who entered at virtually the same time as him (including fellow Floridian Kelly Meggs, who had just “organized an alliance” with the Proud Boys in December) — is crucial to understanding the insurrection as a whole.

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[empedocles]

1. Marcy's Empty Wheel tends to go deeper than many

[Martin68]

2. This could be crucial to a conspiracy conviction.

[MagickMuffin]

3. The West side was the distraction by the angry mob, but the dangerous groups met elsewhere

This was my observation from seeing the visual pictures and GPS signs you can see that there were stragglers on the East side. You can even see where they met up.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. With this much seemingly going on.....

and more and more people being discovered and initially charged, SURELY someone has to be singing like a songbird already about what seems to be a well-organized effort on the part of some "Trumpster" group.

Anybody making any sense of it yet - clues - ideas?