California man with knives, racist symbols arrested in D.C.

[demmiblue]

Source: Los Angeles Times

U.S. Capitol Police early Monday arrested an Oceanside, Calif., man outside the Washington headquarters of the Democratic National Committee on suspicion of possession of prohibited weapons.

Around midnight, an officer on patrol noticed a black Dodge Dakota pickup truck with a swastika and other white supremacist symbols outside of the DNC headquarters, according to Capitol Police. The truck had a picture of an American flag in place of a license plate.

Officers noticed a bayonet and machete, which are illegal in Washington, D.C., inside the truck and arrested the driver, Donald Craighead, 44, of Oceanside.

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According to Capitol Police, Craighead said he was “on patrol” and began talking about “white supremacist ideology and other rhetoric pertaining to white supremacy.”

Read more: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-09-13/california-man-arrested-washington-knives-racist-symbols

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[Ray Bruns]

1. On patrol for what?

[llashram]

16. who do you think?

'runaway' free African-Americans and any other person not meeting his criteria of being of the 'superior race'.

[Wingus Dingus]

2. What is that, circled in red? It looks like a dried-out vertebral column.

[captain queeg]

3. Maybe some kind of weird knife? Can't really tell

Not a vertebrate from a human, joints are too far apart.

[2naSalit]

4. Yeah...

I wonder what's up with that? Maybe he's the pizzagate guy.

[Haggard Celine]

8. Was that discarded from a meal?

If so, what animal was it? Looks like a pile of garbage to me.

[Wingus Dingus]

12. Looks like other pieces of bone in there too. Too big to be chicken, too

small to be venison...

[BradAllison]

25. Looks like a roast chicken carcass part n/m

[reACTIONary]

33. According to the article ...

.... They are "animal bones"...

Photos released by Capitol Police show Craighead’s vehicle had a pentagram on the steering wheel and the word “confederate” scrawled on the dashboard. The truck also contained animal bones and had antlers attached to the front.

[Wingus Dingus]

34. Huh. Yep.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Trying to give Florida man competition?

[JustAnotherGen]

6. We need 9/11 type policies

For Domestic Terrorists.

[hadEnuf]

7. +1000

n/t

[IronLionZion]

9. Douchebag's rally is coming up this Saturday

so this dude might be scoping it out looking to cause mischief or something.

This time there will be national guard and fencing and a more cooperative law enforcement response than with TFG.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

10. He sounds nice (nt)

[OneCrazyDiamond]

11. Why are machetes illegal?

They are great for hacking brush piles.

[Polybius]

13. Probably a DC law

They have some strict weapons laws.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

21. It is a yard tool though.

Not a machine gun.

[happybird]

26. Tell that to MS-13

[OneCrazyDiamond]

28. If that's the bar to meet then no baseball bats either.

Post 23 has the real answer.

[Polybius]

38. Nunchucks were illegal in NYC from the 70's until 2019

Then finally some judge had some sanity and ruled it unconstitutional.

[rockfordfile]

14. That pos was going to murder a person or persons

[OneCrazyDiamond]

20. So they made machetes illegal because of this guy?

[jmowreader]

17. How many brush piles could there be in the City of Washington?

[OneCrazyDiamond]

22. I think it would depend on the season.

[jmowreader]

27. If there were any...

They have a Parks Department, who can have machetes, to deal with the problem.

[Dial H For Hero]

23. I looked up DC's knife laws. Any knife with a blade longer than 3 inches is illegal if one

possesses it with the intent to harm others. How such intent is determined is up to the authorities.

[OneCrazyDiamond]

24. Thank you.

I bet this is why, as his intent can not be to hackdown a large brush pile so it fits in a green waste receptacle.

[Wingus Dingus]

32. You can buy them in stores. I have one from Home Depot, for weed-whacking.

It's sold with kind of a dull blade, I doubt it would do more than give you an unsightly gash. I didn't know they were illegal anywhere, seems like a common garden tool.

[GulfCoast66]

36. No a lot of brush piles in DC? Or he had no brush piles?I don't know.

I’ve got a machete, several shotguns and a deer rifle. All useful tools where I live. But I know not to carry them into DC.

Oh, and I don’t have Nazi shit and white supremacy shit on my vehicle.

[bucolic_frolic]

15. That pupil gets an "F" for undercover operations

Thank goodness. But you do wonder if he was just (sent to test) testing security operations, to make a public splash, or if he's just another wacko.

[TomDaisy]

18. this person lives in his own filth

[Initech]

19. Just another good ol' MAGA terrorist. Move along, nothing to see here!

[I_UndergroundPanther]

29. Did you see the deer antlers

And the red painted"bloody"rims on that truck?

Bet he abuses and kills animals. A psychopath.

I hope he dies in jail.

[getagrip_already]

30. Wait, he is from CA? How the heck did he drive cross country with swastikas and no tag?

People have been shot for a license plate light being out. How do you drive cross country with no plate on your car?

[EarthFirst]

31. Probably by way of thumbs up and salutes from passing LEO's... nt

[Zorro]

35. Grandma fills in the blanks on this moron

The grandmother of an Oceanside man arrested near the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington, D.C., with a bayonet and a machete described her grandson as "always in trouble," and "heading in the wrong direction his whole life."

U.S Capitol Police arrest 44-year-old Donald Craighead Monday morning. They said officers saw a pickup truck with “a swastika and other white supremacist symbols.” When they approached, Craighead spoke about “white supremacist ideology and other rhetoric pertaining to white supremacy,” police said in a statement.

According to court records, Craighead had criminal cases in San Diego County, mostly in East County, dating back to 2015. They include felony reckless evading of a peace officer and felony second-degree robbery. His criminal record dates back to 1995 in Missoula, Montana, where he's faced charges of forgery and theft, criminal possession of a dangerous drug, and numerous counts of writing bad checks.

Craighead's grandmother, Joanne Craighead, told NBC 7 said her grandson was a handyman at one point and was doing well until his success was derailed by a dirt bike accident.

She said his family tried to help by buying him trucks and tools to get his job as a handyman up and running, but it did not work out.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/grandmother-of-oceanside-man-arrested-near-dnc-headquarters-says-grandson-is-always-in-trouble/2716717/

[ChubbyStar]

37. I guess the Brain Transplant was too expensive

Handyman my ass. He is a terrorist.