California Men Arrested for Assault on Law Enforcement During Jan. 6 Capitol Breach

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Source: Department of Justice

Assailant Repeatedly Attacked Police Using Crutch, Metal Pole, Spray

Two California men were arrested today for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election.

David Nicholas Dempsey, 34, of Van Nuys, and Jeffrey Scott Brown, 54, of Santa Ana, are charged with federal offenses related to their alleged assault and impediment of certain officers. Dempsey is charged with use of a dangerous weapon, obstruction of an official proceeding, and civil disorder in addition to assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers. Brown is separately charged with inflicting bodily injury on officers, obstructing law enforcement during a civil disorder and engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, among other charges. Both men made their initial court appearances today in the Central District of California.

According to court documents, Dempsey was captured in numerous videos taken on the lower west terrace during the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. As depicted, Dempsey wore various outfits, but predominantly a black shirt, dark helmet, goggles and an American flag gaiter covering most of his face. In several still photos, he can be seen using various objects, including a crutch and a metal pole, as bludgeoning weapons or projectiles against the line of law enforcement officers protecting the tunnel in front of the west terrace entrance. Additional video footage shows Dempsey spraying officers with what appears to be a lacrimal agent.

Read more: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/california-men-arrested-assault-law-enforcement-during-jan-6-capitol-breach

[Scottie Mom]

1. 🤬😡🤬

Asshole RWNJ traitors!!!!

[Cha]

2. Throw the Book at the Stupid Idiots

[bottomofthehill]

3. Keep it up, find them all!

[Leghorn21]

4. Aw, SWEET, two little bright spots of malicious dumbfuckery get collared

YES

Y’all give Sidney a ring, she’s fired up and ready to go!


Sidney Powell: I'm 'stepping in' to help defend the MAGA rioters from criminal charges

…In conversation with former Trump strategist Steve Bannon on Wednesday, infamous "kraken" lawyer Sidney Powell announced that she is planning to aid the legal defense of those on trial for participating in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

"DefendingTheRepublic.org, our (c)(4) nonprofit that I founded shortly after the election disaster, fraud, massive fraud — we are stepping in to defend and assist in the defense of the January 6th defendants," Powell told Bannon….


https://www.rawstory.com/sidney-powell-capitol-riot/

[MarineCombatEngineer]

7. If Sidney Powell is stepping in to help defend them,

then those defendants are truly fucked and might as well plead guilty now and get it over with.

[truthisfreedom]

5. Sweet justice.

[Skittles]

6. HAHAHAHA

I hope they have been shitting bricks since Jan 6....fucking FASCISTS.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. They are STILL finding and prosecuting these perps

Impressive. The long arm of the law.

[Justice matters.]

16. Yeah, but they're just letting one guy continue to excite/incite these domestic terrorists.

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Scott MacFarlane
@MacFarlaneNews

ALERT: Seven US Capitol Police officers file federal civil suit against Donald Trump, key Trump allies & high-profile Jan 6 defendants .. in connection with US Capitol Insurrection

Citing series of Trump tweets/statements, alleging conspiracy, assault, battery, seeking damages

(there's a whole Twitter thread there with screenshots of the orange terrorist/dear leader's banned tweet inciting his terrorists to kill Mike Pence).

Still waiting for true Justice...

[Evolve Dammit]

9. Ah the crutch guy. I want to hear his sob story and why he used it as a weapon. Lock him UP

[Hekate]

10. I figure it was a form of camouflage-weapon. Like the flagpoles, it looks harmless...

…right up until you swing it at someone’s head.

[Evolve Dammit]

15. exactly!

[oasis]

11. Gotcha. You can run but you cannot hide.

[ailsagirl]

12. Good

Probably thought they had gotten away with it.

[Bluethroughu]

13. Lock them up, lock them up, lock them up

They're familiar with the chant.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

14. Seven months PLUS of waiting around for the G-Man to knock...

...It's precious!

[Eugene]

17. David Nicholas Dempsey has a history of pro-MAGA violence going back to 2019.

DU thread from 2019: Man in MAGA cap arrested for attacking anti-Trump protesters with bear repellent

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California man charged with attacking Capitol police had history of assaulting activists (The Guardian)

When David Dempsey was arrested in California on Thursday and charged with attacking police officers defending the US Capitol on 6 January, local activists in Los Angeles were not surprised.

Federal prosecutors have accused 34-year-old Dempsey of striking police at the Capitol with improvised weapons, including a crutch and a pole, and spraying them with a chemical agent, according to the criminal complaint against him.

Five months earlier, two Los Angeles men said, Dempsey had used the exact same tactics to assault them during tense summer political demonstrations in the Tujunga neighborhood and in Beverly Hills.

One of these alleged assaults had happened directly in front of police officers in Beverly Hills, and the other was reported in detail to the Los Angeles police department, according to the two men. Both said that local police failed to follow up or to arrest Dempsey, even though he had previously been charged with using bear mace on anti-Trump protesters in Santa Monica, California, in 2019.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/26/california-man-charged-capitol-attack-police

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[oasis]

18. Wow. This guy is a real piece of work.