D.C. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson acquitted a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/january-6" target="_blank" rel="noopener">January 6</a> defendant of obstruction on Friday after ruling that prosecutors presented no evidence that the defendant intended to stop <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Congress</a> that day.
Joshua Black of Alabama was <a href="https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1613998252587683848" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cleared</a> of the charge because Jackson said the “unique stew in his mind” that was described during the trial showed that Black did not know that what he was participating in was unlawful. Black was convicted of other charges, including carrying a deadly weapon on Capitol grounds.
Black was arrested shortly after the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. After the riot, he traveled back to Alabama and posted a video on YouTube describing his time in the U.S. Capitol. That video, as well as an anonymous tip, led the FBI to Black.
Images and video from the riot show Black in the U.S. Senate chamber with a bloody cheek. Black said his cheek was bloody because he was hit by a projectile earlier that day while he was attempting to protect law enforcement from some of the protesters.
Black said in the since-deleted video posted to YouTube that he was led to the Senate chamber by God.
“I just felt like the spirit of God wanted me to go into the Senate room,” he <a href="https://www.newsaegis.com/news/one-year-after-participating-in-jan-6-capitol-riot-leeds-man-still-awaiting-trial-date/article_bca22598-6e7c-11ec-a87d-27aa74eb449b.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Jackson <a href="https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1613998255544668174" target="_blank" rel="noopener">alluded</a> to Black’s justification in her decision to acquit the defendant of obstruction of justice.
Black’s attorneys said that Black believed that the 2020 election had already been certified by the time he walked into the U.S. Capitol and the Senate chamber. Jackson <a href="https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1613998255544668174" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that prosecutors made no argument rebutting the defense.
Jackson was appointed by former President Barack Obama and has typically been tough on defendants in trials related to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. She has also been a vocal critic of former President Donald Trump and some of his Republican supporters, accusing them of being “so afraid of losing their power.”
“The judiciary … has to make it clear: It is not patriotism, it is not standing up for America to stand up for one man — who knows full well that he lost — instead of the Constitution he was trying to subvert,” Jackson <a href="https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2022/09/27/afraid-of-losing-their-power-judge-decries-gop-leaders-who-back-trump-election-claims-00059091" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in September.
The judge’s comments came as she delivered the sentence of defendant Kyle Young, who pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer and was sentenced to 86 months in prison.

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Judge Dismisses Obstruction Charge Against J6 Defendant Who Said ‘Spirit Of God’ Moved Him In Capitol

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January 6

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Washington D.C.

A man reportedly drove a vehicle into a barrier near the U.S. Capitol Building before firing into the air and fatally shooting himself, according to Capitol Police.
The incident occurred early Sunday morning at approximately 4 a.m. at the street barrier at East Capitol Street and 2nd Street in Washington, D.C.
The man has been identified as 29-year-old Richard A. York III of Delaware, according to an updated <a href="https://www.uscp.gov/media-center/press-releases/law-enforcement-investigating-car-crash-gunshots-and-suicide-east" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> from the Capitol Police.
&#8220;It is still not clear why he chose to drive to the Capitol Complex,&#8221; authorities said.
The initial police report described the scene of the vehicle crash and its aftermath.
&#8220;While the man was getting out of the car, it became engulfed in flames,&#8221; the release said. &#8220;The man then fired several shots into the air along East Capitol Street.&#8221;
&#8220;When our officers heard the sound of gunfire, they immediately responded and were approaching the man when he shot himself,&#8221; it added. &#8220;Nobody else was hurt.&#8221;
The initial report noted that the man did not appear to be targeting any member of Congress, as U.S. lawmakers are currently on recess. Officers reportedly did not fire their weapons.
Investigators are looking into the driver’s background, according to the police report.
“We don’t have any information that would indicate his motivation at this point,” Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger stated at a news conference following the event, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/14/capitol-barricade-rammed-shots-fired/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_medium=social" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> the Washington Post.
The incident comes as threats reportedly escalated against law enforcement nationwide following the FBI&#8217;s search of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s Mar-a-Lago home in Florida.
The crash occurred more than a year after another vehicle drove into a Capitol barricade in April 2021. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/media-quickly-moves-on-from-man-who-killed-capitol-police-officer-after-learning-he-supported-louis-farrakhan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacker</a>, Noah Green, killed one officer and injured another before authorities fatally shot him.
Green, a follower of Louis Farrakhan&#8217;s Nation of Islam, reportedly exited the crashed car with a knife before being fatally shot.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a free hotline for individuals in crisis or distress or for those looking to help someone else. It is available 24/7 at 1-800-273-8255.
This is a developing story. Updates may be added.

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Man Fatally Shoots Himself After Ramming Into U.S. Capitol Barrier

Capitol Police

Shooting

A federal judge on Monday handed down the heaviest sentence yet to a defendant who was at the Capital riot — seven years to a Texas man who never entered the building.
A Washington, D.C., jury <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/texas-man-found-guilty-jury-felony-charges-actions-related-capitol-breach">convicted</a> Guy Reffitt, 49, of five felonies in March, including carrying a gun on U.S. Capitol grounds and threatening his children against reporting him to law enforcement. Reffitt was also convicted of two counts of civil disorder, and one count of obstruction of an official proceeding.
U.S. District Court Judge Dabney Friedrich declined a Department of Justice request to sentence Reffitt as a domestic terrorist, stating it would create an “unwarranted sentencing disparity,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/08/01/jan-6-terrorism-sentencing-penalty-00048922">Politico</a>. Treating Reffitt’s crimes as terrorism would have substantially increased Reffitt’s potential sentence; prosecutors had asked for a 15-year term.
“There are a lot of cases where defendants possessed weapons or committed very violent assaults,” Friedrich said, noting that the longest January 6 riot-related sentence to date is just over five years. “The government is asking for a sentence that is three times as long as any other defendant and the defendant did not assault an officer.”
Reffitt, a member of the militia group Texas Three Percenters, traveled to Washington D.C. with another militia member to protest the results of the 2020 election. Both men traveled to the nation’s capital armed with handguns and rifles.
On January 6, Reffitt arrived at the U.S. Capitol wearing a pistol on his hip, body armor, and a helmet with a camera on his head. Reffitt made it as far as the steps outside the Capitol’s Senate wing, but he never entered the building. He used a bullhorn to urge other protesters to storm inside.
“I didn’t come here to play — I’m taking the Capitol,” his camera <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/us/politics/guy-reffitt-january-6-trial.html">recorded</a> him saying. “I just want to see Pelosi’s head hitting every stair on the way out.”
The judge did grant that Reffitt was “in a class of his own so far as I’m aware in terms of what he was doing there that day, and what he claimed what he was there to do,” she said, according to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/08/01/reffitt-sentence-jan6/">The Washington Post</a>. Friedrich also said that the fact that Reffitt was armed was “huge,” but asked, “does the firearm deserve three times the sentence if it was not brandished or used in any way?”
Reffitt’s January 6 activities also caused a rift in his household.
His son testified against him during his March trial and supported prosecutors’ sentencing request with the caveat that Reffitt could receive rehabilitation and counseling in prison. The 19-year-old son, Jackson, told the jury at trial that his father threatened him and his sister about reporting the older man to the authorities.
“He said, ‘If you turn me in, you’re a traitor,’” Jackson recounted. “‘And traitors get shot.’”
Reffitt’s teen daughter sided with her father at his sentencing hearing, writing a letter to the judge asking for leniency. She placed the blame for the riot on then-President Donald Trump.
“My father’s name wasn’t on the flags that everyone was carrying there that day … There was another man’s name,” Peyton Reffitt wrote to the court, according to the Post. “He was not the leader.”

J6 Defendant Receives Harshest Sentence Yet After Son Testifies Against Him At Trial

Texas

Dr. Simone Gold claimed this week that the judge who sentenced her to sixty days behind bars for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/capitol-riot">trespassing</a> at the U.S. Capitol once asked her out while they attended <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/stanford">Stanford</a> University Law School, and she rebuffed him.
Gold, a medical doctor and lawyer who spoke out against mainstream <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/coronavirus">COVID</a> narratives, alleged that U.S. District Court Judge Christopher R. Cooper showed personal bias at sentencing, which she suggests came from their past interactions.
“I too am an attorney and I know what proper judicial temperament is, and this was not that,” Gold said in a statement sent to journalist Julie Kelly this week. Gold claimed that Judge Cooper showed “three episodes of personal animus” against her. 
The 56-year-old alleged in her statement that she and Cooper had an informal date back at Stanford, and then when he later asked her out for dinner, she rebuffed him because she &#8220;wasn&#8217;t interested.&#8221;
&#8220;Casey asked me out again, this time a formal invitation to a dinner date, following our prior less formal interactions,” Gold wrote, claiming earlier in her statement that the judge went by &#8220;Casey&#8221; back then. &#8220;This I declined. Just because I wasn’t interested.” 
When she saw who was her judge at the first Zoom meeting, Gold thought Cooper &#8220;would recuse himself,&#8221; she said. When he didn&#8217;t, Gold chose not to say anything, thinking Cooper would be neutral, if not an &#8220;advantage&#8221; to her.
Gold claims the judge showed personal bias against her at he sentencing, such as allegedly referencing what Gold called &#8220;tangential matters,&#8221; like her nonprofit. In another instance, Gold said Cooper denied that her medical license is under threat while allegedly holding a paper that said that it was. Gold also claimed that the judge stated that she &#8220;showed no remorse for the five people who died that day,&#8221; which the doctor said was &#8220;factually untrue.&#8221;
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Dr. Simone Gold send me this statement last night related to the judge in her case.
She reported to prison today: <a href="https://t.co/VETLbtUERU">pic.twitter.com/VETLbtUERU</a>
&mdash; Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) <a href="https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1551956996802449416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 26, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Judge Cooper did indeed shame Gold for allegedly showing no remorse for being in the Capitol and suggested she know better because of her intelligence.
&#8220;It is obvious from the video that we watched today that you were part of an angry and aggressive, I would say mob, crowd of people intent on getting past law enforcement and entering the East Rotunda through those doors,&#8221; Cooper told Gold, <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/99287">according</a> to MedPage Today.
&#8220;Regardless of how the door got opened, the police were obviously trying to keep people out,&#8221; Cooper said.
&#8220;What I haven&#8217;t heard is anything about the five people who died that day,&#8221; the judge continued. &#8220;Of the four people who committed suicide because of the trauma that they suffered that day at the hands of the mob. Or the members of Congress or the 20-year-old or 25-year-old staffers who were behind those doors when chaos was breaking out all around them and not knowing whether they would be able to go home with their families.&#8221;
The judge said Gold was &#8220;obviously very bright and professionally accomplished, and clearly take great pride in that as you rightfully should,&#8221; adding that this worked against her, &#8220;because you should have known what you were doing.&#8221;
Gold was sentenced to 60 days in prison, followed by one year of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $9,500 fine on top of a $500 fine to the Capitol architect for other rioters&#8217; damage, MedPage Today noted.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pennsylvania-dad-facing-prison-time-for-entering-capitol-on-jan-6-dies-by-suicide">Pennsylvania Dad Facing Prison Time For Entering Capitol On Jan. 6 Dies By Suicide</a>

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Doctor Serving Jail Time For Trespassing On Jan. 6 Says She Once Rebuffed Her Judge For A Date

Doctor Simone Gold, Serving Jail Time For Trespassing On Jan. 6, Says She Once Rebuffed Her Judge For A Date

Capitol Riot

Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Tuesday evening retaliated against CBS late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert after his comments insinuating Carlson would rather talk about Colbert’s staffers arrested on U.S. Capitol grounds than the ongoing January 6 Committee hearings.
“How is what Stephen Colbert did different from what the protestors on January 6 have been convicted of doing,” Carlson <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-difference-crime-between-colbert-staffers-jan-6-protesters">said</a>. “That’s a very good question, and it’s a question Colbert himself spent the weekend thinking about.”
Last week a group of nine staffers from “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” including Robert Smigel, the voice of a puppet known as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, were allegedly conducting interviews at the U.S. Capitol Building related to the January 6 committee hearings until the Capitol Police <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stephen-colbert-staff-arrested-in-u-s-house-building-were-snooping-near-offices-of-gop-members">arrested</a> them for unlawfully entering an office building.
The staffers were found near the offices of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Colbert used his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/colbert-defends-staffers-arrested-at-u-s-capitol">opening monologue</a> on Monday to explain why it’s “shocking” he has to explain the difference between his staffers and January 6 rioters.
“An insurrection involves disrupting the lawful actions of Congress and howling for the blood of elected leaders, all to prevent the peaceful transfer of power — this was first-degree puppetry,” Colbert said.
Colbert upheld his belief that the January 6 Capitol riot and Capitol Police arresting his staffers are different from one another.
“The Capitol Police are much more cautious than they were, say, 18 months ago, and for a very good reason,” he said. “If you don’t know what that reason is — I know what news network you watch.”
That’s where Carlson stepped in, calling Colbert all sorts of insulting names like a “partisan scold” or a “Karen” that acts like a “bridle middle-aged woman” who constantly lectures the public.
He even goes so far as to say Colbert and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) might be the same person.
“Have you seen them in the same room recently,” Carlson asked. “No.”
Carlson went on to say Colbert’s defense came off as a “master&#8217;s class on whiny, rich, liberal self-righteousness.”
“It’s a distillation of a worldview that is so concise and so perfect,” he said. “It is certain to be studied by cultural historians in the future seeking to understand how our civilization collapsed.”
Carlson went on to mock the actions of Colbert’s staffers and explain why he believes Colbert lost his sense of humor with the average person—excluding his audience, which Carlson described as “self-hating white liberals” like Colbert.
“Don’t tell us you&#8217;re a comedian and exempt from the normal rules of behavior and the normal federal laws about trespassing—cause you’re not,” Carlson said. “You did what they did, and you should be punished exactly the same way.”

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Tucker Carlson Bites Back Against Colbert Defending ‘Triumph The Insult Comic Dog’ And Staffers Arrested At US Capitol

Tucker Carlson Bites Back Against Colbert Defending 'Triumph The Insult Comic Dog' And Staffers Arrested At US Capitol

Fox News

Stephen Colbert

Tucker Carlson

Late-night talk show host Stephen Colbert used his opening monologue on Monday to defend his staffers arrested last week for unlawfully entering an office building at the United States Capitol.
The group of nine staffers included Robert Smigel, the voice of a puppet known as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, who was conducting interviews related to the January 6 committee hearings.
Colbert said the encounter caused an unpleasant experience for his staff, and a lot of paperwork for the Capitol Police, but was a &#8220;fairly simple&#8221; story.
&#8220;Until the next night when a couple of the TV people started claiming my puppet squad &#8216;committed insurrection&#8217; at the U.S. Capitol Building,&#8221; Colbert said.
&#8220;I&#8217;m shocked I have to explain the difference,&#8221; he added. &#8220;But an insurrection involves disrupting the lawful actions of Congress and howling for the blood of elected leaders, all to prevent the peaceful transfer of power — this was first-degree puppetry.&#8221;
Colbert claimed Triumph and the production team offered to travel to Washington, D.C., and interview Democrats and Republicans inside congressional offices “across the street&#8221; from the U.S. Capitol.
&#8220;They went through security clearance, shot all day Wednesday, all day Thursday, invited into the offices of the congresspeople they were interviewing,&#8221; he said.
But <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-details-emerge-about-stephen-colbert-staffers-who-were-arrested-for-unlawful-entry-into-u-s-house-building">according</a> to a U.S. Capitol Police statement, &#8220;responding officers observed seven individuals, unescorted and without Congressional ID, in a sixth-floor hallway.&#8221;
However, Reps. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rodney Davis (R-IL) said in a letter addressed to the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police that the staffers were part of a group who were directed by USCP officers to leave the building earlier in the day.
According to the letter, the individuals reportedly gained access back into the building through Representative Jake Auchincloss (D-CA) and Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), a member of the House Select Committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021.
&#8220;These individuals were arrested and charged with unlawful entry after causing &#8216;disturbances&#8217; at the offices of several Republican members, including &#8216;banging&#8217; on their office doors,&#8221; the letter reads.
A spokesperson for CBS — Colbert&#8217;s network — told Fox News that &#8220;after leaving the members&#8217; offices on their last interview of the day, the production team stayed to film stand-ups and other final comedy elements in the halls when they were detained by Capitol Police.&#8221;
Authorities have arrested more than 840 people for storming the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, with 185 receiving criminal sentences.
According to the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office for the District of Columbia, more than 80 defendants have been charged with entering a restricted area with a dangerous or deadly weapon, more than 50 defendants have been charged with destruction of government property, and approximately 35 defendants have been charged with theft of government property.

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Colbert Defends Staffers Arrested At U.S. Capitol

The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice">Department of Justice</a> (DOJ) will reportedly not pursue prosecution of a top Democrat staffer who allegedly vandalized posters in the Capitol complex outside <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marjorie-taylor-greene">Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene</a>&#8216;s (R-GA) office.
Just the News <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/congress/democrat-congressmans-staffer-caught-defacing-posters-capitol-complex-doj-wont">reported</a> Monday that Timothy Duane Hysom, chief of staff for Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), was referred for criminal charges by Capitol Police, but the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s office declined to approve an arrest warrant.
&#8220;Capitol Police asked federal prosecutors back in March for an arrest warrant for Timothy Hysom, 51, a longtime Democrat congressional staffer who worked for Rep. Adam Schiff before rising to be Auchincloss’s top aide, after capturing Hysom on hidden camera security footage defacing Greene’s posters with stickers with religious messages, according to copy of the arrest warrant obtained by Just the News,&#8221; the outlet reported.
&#8220;Police said they believed Hysom may have been involved in seven defacing of posters outside Greene&#8217;s office in the Longworth Congressional Office Building between January and March and that he declined to be interviewed when confronted,&#8221; Just the News reported. Hysom was offered a &#8220;non-custodial interview and he declined and retained counsel,&#8221; according to a copy of the arrest warrant.
&#8220;Based on the aforementioned, it is your affiant&#8217;s belief that the defendant, Timothy Duane Hysom … did violate DC Code § 22–3312.01 Defacing Public or Private Property,” read the arrest warrant, which can be accessed <a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2022-06/USCP-Arrest%20Warrant-Tim-Hyman03-22.pdf">here</a>.
Just the News noted that this was &#8220;the same U.S. Attorney&#8217;s office that pursued the Jan. 6 defendants.&#8221;
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Last week, staffers from “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” were charged with unlawful entry into an office building for the U.S. House of Representatives.
“Nine individuals were arrested on Thursday night for entering the Longworth House Office Building, which was closed to the public at that point, after they previously had been escorted out of another building for trying to conduct interviews related to the January 6 committee hearings,” The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-details-emerge-about-stephen-colbert-staffers-who-were-arrested-for-unlawful-entry-into-u-s-house-building">reported</a>. The staffers were <a href="https://deadline.com/2022/06/late-night-with-stephen-colbert-staffers-detained-by-capitol-police-1235048143/">found</a> near the offices of Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), according to Deadline.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Friday <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-says-stephen-colbert-staffers-arrested-at-capitol-should-be-locked-up-in-solitary-like-january-6-defendants">highlighted</a> an apparent double-standard based on politics.
The Colbert staffers, Carlson said, were “charged with unlawful entry into the Capitol complex — now that’s the exact same charge that many January 6 defendants face.”
“We’ll just get right to it: It’s likely that some members of Stephen Colbert’s team will be held in solitary confinement for a year and a half without being charged,” he asserted. “Why? Because this is an insurrection.”
“Joking aside,” Carlson continued, “How could they not be held for a year and half in solitary confinement without being charged? Because the precedent is in place. And how in the world can <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/adam-schiff">Adam Schiff</a>, again, who spent the last year and a half eliminating the civil liberties of Trump voters on the basis of January 6, do the exact same thing and not face punishment?”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tucker-carlson-says-stephen-colbert-staffers-arrested-at-capitol-should-be-locked-up-in-solitary-like-january-6-defendants">Tucker Carlson Says Stephen Colbert Staffers Arrested At Capitol Should Be Locked Up In Solitary Like January 6 Defendants</a>
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DOJ Won’t Prosecute Top Democrat Staffer For Defacing Posters Outside Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Office: Report

Democratic Party

Marjorie Taylor Greene

WASHINGTON — The United States Capitol Police (USCP) said Friday they had arrested a Michigan man wearing body armor and carrying ammunition outside the Capitol.
Authorities found the man wearing a fake badge, carrying a BB gun, wearing body armor, and carrying several magazines, the Capitol Police said in a press release.
Jerome Felipe, the 53-year-old suspect, is a retired New York police officer from Flint, Michigan. Police say he showed USCP officers a fake badge with &#8220;Department of the INTERPOL&#8221; printed on it.
He retired from the police force in 2018, the NYPD office of the deputy commissioner of public information confirmed Friday. &#8220;We are fully cooperating with the US Capitol Police investigation. For any additional questions please be referred to the US Capitol Police,&#8221; said NYPD.
Felipe had parked his 2017 Dodge Charger on the west side of the Capitol, police said, and claimed to be a criminal investigator.
&#8220;Felipe gave officers permission to search his vehicle,&#8221; said USCP. &#8220;The officers discovered a BB gun, two ballistic vests, several high capacity magazines, and other ammunition in the car. No real guns were found.&#8221;
It is not immediately clear what Felipe was doing parked near the Capitol, and police said that he is &#8220;facing charges for Unlawful Possession of High Capacity Magazines and Unregistered Ammo.&#8221;
The USCP, which did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire, is responsible for guarding the U.S. Capitol.
The force came under severe scrutiny following the January 6 Capitol Riot, and Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/05/capitol-police-officers-left-since-jan-6/9104403002/">said in January</a> that 153 officers had either resigned or retired in the year after the riot.
Manger told the Rules and Administration Committee in January that the force was short 447 of its authorized strength. He said his goal was to hire 280 officers a year for the next three years to make up for the departures and the stress upon officers who have served the force in the wake of the riot.
“It will be a challenge hiring that many officers,” Manger said, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/05/capitol-police-officers-left-since-jan-6/9104403002/">according to USA Today</a>. “The real challenge is to make sure you’re hiring the right officers, that we’re hiring good quality candidates.”
In April, the USCP <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/capitol-police-order-immediate-evacuation-of-capitol-complex-amid-aircraft-threat">temporarily evacuated</a> the U.S. Capitol over a “probable threat” that turned out to be a plane carrying members of the U.S. Army Golden Knights to parachute into a Washington Nationals game.
“The USCP is tracking an aircraft that poses a probable threat to the Capitol Complex,” the Capitol Police reportedly said in an alert sent to congressional staffers on Wednesday.
Shortly afterward, the Capitol Police announced that the Capitol “was evacuated out of an abundance of caution this evening,” noting that “there is no threat at the Capitol,” and promising that more details were to come.
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The Capitol was evacuated out of an abundance of caution this evening. 
There is no threat at the Capitol.
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Police Arrest Man Outside U.S. Capitol Wearing Body Armor, Carrying Ammunition

Capitol Police Arrest Man Wearing Body Armor, Carrying Ammunition

Crime

A Democratic member of Congress was attacked by a fox on Capitol Hill Monday night as multiple fox sightings in the area were reported on Monday and Tuesday. 
“I didn’t see it and all of a sudden I felt something lunge at the back of my leg,” Democratic Rep. Ami Bera (CA) said on Tuesday afternoon. “I jumped and got my umbrella.” 
Bera said the fox bit his leg and told PunchBowl News that he managed to scare the animal with his umbrella and that it ran away after Capitol Police showed up. “It was the most bizarre day in Congress.”
“We have received several reports of aggressive fox encounters on or near the grounds of the U.S. Capitol,” the U.S. Capitol Police Department said in a statement released on Tuesday afternoon.  “For your safety, please do not approach any foxes. Animal Control Officers are working to trap and relocate any foxes they find.”
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We have received several reports of aggressive fox encounters on or near the grounds of the U.S. Capitol.
For your safety, please do not approach any foxes.
Animal Control Officers are working to trap and relocate any foxes they find.
&mdash; U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) <a href="https://twitter.com/CapitolPolice/status/1511385851242197000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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A reporter for CQ Now also spotted a fox near the Capitol and posted a picture to Twitter on Monday, writing, &#8220;Spotted outside the Capitol: a red fox. I was sitting at a gazebo outside the Russell Senate Office building when this little one came trotting up. Then galloped after a squirrel.&#8221;
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Spotted outside the Capitol: a red fox. I was sitting at a gazebo outside the Russell Senate Office building when this little one came trotting up. Then galloped after a squirrel <a href="https://t.co/xrX4sMi9XU">pic.twitter.com/xrX4sMi9XU</a>
&mdash; Michael Macagnone (@mikemacagnone) <a href="https://twitter.com/mikemacagnone/status/1511064186591367180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 4, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Animal Control was contacted and set out traps to &#8220;relocate any foxes they find.&#8221; People were also warned not to approach any foxes they may encounter.
The Cox Media Group <a href="https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/red-fox-encounters-us-capitol-prompt-official-alert/4AZCRTR44BD3NNIDGBGIG4X2CE/">reported</a> that the “alert said the fox was spotted in various locations, including the Botanic Garden, the House side of the Capitol and near First and C Streets. Police said the fox may have a den in that area close to the Dirksen Building and another possible den has been spotted near the Russell Building.”
The Capitol fox couldn&#8217;t get away forever after attacking Rep. Bera, however, as the Capitol Police provided an update on its Twitter account that the fox had been captured Tuesday afternoon. 
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<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#BREAKING</a>: Captured. <a href="https://t.co/LJAn2ZjH9J">pic.twitter.com/LJAn2ZjH9J</a>
&mdash; U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) <a href="https://twitter.com/CapitolPolice/status/1511427545308221444?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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After the fox was caught, Bera provided an update on his leg after the fox bite.
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What does the fox say? Last night, I found out…
Joking aside, animal bites are extremely serious. In the case of an encounter, please speak with a physician immediately: <a href="https://t.co/J4tmdlZzQI">https://t.co/J4tmdlZzQI</a>.
Happy to report that I am healthy and back at work serving the people of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CA07?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CA07</a>. <a href="https://t.co/rNX85ItmrK">https://t.co/rNX85ItmrK</a>
&mdash; Ami Bera, M.D. (@RepBera) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepBera/status/1511436030251081742?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 5, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Capitol Fox

‘Felt Something Lunge’: Fox Attacks Dem Congressman On Capitol Grounds

The remaining fence surrounding the U.S. Capitol will start coming down next week on July 8, just a little more than six months after the Capitol riot, according to a Thursday report.
&#8220;Fox has learned that the Capitol fence, encircling the immediate perimeter of the U.S. Capitol will come down starting July 8,&#8221; Fox News reporter Chad Pergram tweeted.
&#8220;Officials installed a two layers of fencing blocking off the Capitol shortly after the January 6 riot. Officials removed the larger perimeter of fencing in the spring,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;But the inner fence remained.&#8221;
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2) Officials installed a two layers of fencing blocking off the Capitol shortly after the January 6 riot. Officials removed the larger perimeter of fencing in the spring. But the inner fence remained..
&mdash; Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1410636025257418761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;That said, Fox is told there are questions as to whether the U.S. Capitol Police have the resources to protect the Capitol. Many officers have left or remain injured. Morale remains very low after the riot,&#8221; Pergram added.
&#8220;&#8216;We don’t know that we are in a better position than we were on January 5,&#8217; cautioned one knowledgeable source on the issue,&#8221; Pergram continued.
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4) “We don’t know that we are in a better position than we were on January 5,” cautioned one knowledgeable source on the issue.
&mdash; Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChadPergram/status/1410636030269603843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 1, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Several lawmakers <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fence-capitol-come-down-july-8" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">told</a> Fox News that they agreed it is time for the fence to come down.
&#8220;This is the people&#8217;s House and this belongs to the American people. We want it to be free and open,&#8221; Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) said. &#8220;The House did pass a bill that would put a lot more money in the Capitol Police and the kind of training and the resources necessary if there were an attack. And I think that&#8217;ll be fine.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s also is a terrible signal,&#8221; Beyer added. &#8220;As we call it, Baghdad on the Potomac, we don&#8217;t want this to be like the Green Zone.&#8221;
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) said, &#8220;The fence is one of the ways they justify continuing to talk about January 6. Is there still some threat? They&#8217;ve got us walking through magnetometers. Members of Congress are no threat to each other, but they want to keep the focus on what happened on January 6. And then somehow Trump is still a problem out there that Americans are concerned about. And we&#8217;re just not. This is just, it&#8217;s pure politics.&#8221;
&#8220;This fence is in no way going to be needed now or in the future.&#8221;
Federal prosecutors have charged more than 500 people for being involved in the Capitol riot, including unarmed grandmothers. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-unarmed-trump-supporting-grandma-charged-in-jan-6-capitol-breach" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">reported</a>:
<blockquote>A 69-year-old grandmother from Los Angeles was arrested Monday and charged in connection to the January 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol.
Lois Lynn McNicoll was charged with entering the Capitol and released on a $10,000 bond.
“For her participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on January 6, 2021, she was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on U.S. Capitol grounds,” Conan Daily <a href="https://conandaily.com/2021/06/29/lois-lynn-mcnicoll-biography-13-things-about-us-capitol-riot-suspect-from-san-clemente-california/">reported</a>.
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As highlighted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unarmed-grandmother-first-to-be-sentenced-in-january-6-capitol-breach-says-shes-reading-about-americas-race-relations">The Daily Wire</a>, a 49-year-old unarmed grandmother of five residing in Indiana on Friday was the first to be sentenced in relation to the breach — a breach some in the media have <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/556510-hating-trump-is-no-excuse-for-comparing-1-6-to-9-11">likened</a> to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which killed nearly 3,000 people.</blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/another-unarmed-trump-supporting-grandma-charged-in-jan-6-capitol-breach" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Another Unarmed Trump-Supporting Grandma Charged In Jan 6 Capitol Breach</a>

Fencing around the U.S. Capitol – Washington, DC

‘Baghdad On The Potomac’: Remaining Capitol Fencing Reportedly Coming Down Next Week

Capitol Hill

The U.S. Capitol Police announced on Friday afternoon that a suspect had been fatally shot by police after “ramming a car into two police officers at the Capitol building and then proceeding to charge at officers on-foot while wielding a knife.” 
Later that day, the U.S. Capitol Police department announced in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/capitol-police-identifies-officer-killed-following-car-attack">brief statement</a> that one of the two officers hurt in the attack, Billy Evans, passed away from his injuries.
Soon after, it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-capitol-attack-suspect-identified-claimed-to-be-follower-of-farrakhan-admired-malcolm-x">reported</a> that “The deceased assailant who rammed two U.S. Capitol Police officers Friday and emerged from his car wielding a knife before police shot him has been identified as Noah Green, 25, an African American man who believed Louis Farrakhan is an incarnation of Jesus Christ.”
While some verified Twitter users <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-blue-checks-rush-to-assume-capitol-attack-suspect-was-a-white-trump-supporter-theres-just-one-problem">rushed to assume</a> that the suspect was “white” or a “Trump insurrectionist,” it became clear that this narrative was being falsely promoted as soon as Green’s identity was revealed by police. 
In response, several high-profile figures pivoted, rebranding Green’s attack on U.S. Capitol Police officers in support of other political positions, such as gun control or the existence of alleged systemic racism.
“Heartbroken to learn another CP was killed while protecting the Capitol,” tweeted Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). “My thoughts and prayers go out to the officer’s family and the entire Capitol Police force.”
“The death toll would have been worse if the assailant had an AR-15 instead of a knife,” she added.
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Heartbroken to learn another CP was killed while protecting the Capitol. My thoughts and prayers go out to the officer’s family and the entire Capitol Police force. The death toll would have been worse if the assailant had an AR-15 instead of a knife.
&mdash; Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) <a href="https://twitter.com/Ilhan/status/1378086058999570436?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Talbert Swan tweeted, “I see the white supremacists are overjoyed to report that the suspect in the Capitol incident was a Black man, Noah Green.”
“Green, allegedly armed with a knife, was shot dead,” he continued, “By contrast, Robert Aaron Long, the Atlanta spa murderer, was armed with an AR 15. He’s alive and well.”
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I see the white supremacists are overjoyed to report that the suspect in the Capitol incident was a Black man, Noah Green.
Green, allegedly armed with a knife, was shot dead.
By contrast, Robert Aaron Long, the Atlanta spa murderer, was armed with an AR 15. He’s alive and well.
&mdash; Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1378081813952921605?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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This wasn’t the first controversial tweet of the day from Swan. He also tweeted earlier that day, “As soon as we heard the suspect in the Capitol attack was shot dead by police, we knew he wasn’t white.”
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As soon as we heard the suspect in the Capitol attack was shot dead by police, we knew he wasn’t white.
&mdash; Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1378084038850834434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Finally, Swan added, “What’s the difference between the Black man suspected of attacking the Capitol on April 2 and the&#8230;white man who killed 10 people in Boulder CO &#8230; white man who killed Asians on March 16, and white insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6? The Black man is DEAD.”
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What’s the difference between the Black man suspected of attacking the Capitol on April 2 and the&#8230;
white man who killed 10 people in Boulder CO
white man who killed Asians on March 16, and
white insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on January 6?
The Black man is DEAD.
&mdash; Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1378181662958362628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 3, 2021</a></blockquote>
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It should be noted that the Boulder, Colorado shooter was of Syrian descent.
MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan tweeted, “Imagine if today’s Capitol attacker had gotten out of his car not with a knife but with an AR-15. Imagine the police death toll. Just imagine.” His tweet concluded with “#guncontrol.”
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Imagine if today&#39;s Capitol attacker had gotten out of his car not with a knife but with an AR-15.
Imagine the police death toll. Just imagine. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/guncontrol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#guncontrol</a>
&mdash; Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) <a href="https://twitter.com/mehdirhasan/status/1378080396131373059?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Tariq Nasheed tweeted, “All the white supremacists are now trying to falsely tie in Noah Green to the Nation of Islam (he wasn’t a member..The media is just using the ‘Im white and I say so’ defense) and blame Louis Farrakhan for the incident at the US capitol as a way to deflect from the Capitol Riots.”
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All the white supremacists are now trying to falsely tie in Noah Green to the Nation of Islam (he wasn&#39;t a member..The media is just using the &quot;Im white and I say so&quot; defense) and blame Louis Farrakhan for the incident at the US capitol as a way to deflect from the Capitol Riots <a href="https://t.co/uCsGekbbR1">pic.twitter.com/uCsGekbbR1</a>
&mdash; Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 (@tariqnasheed) <a href="https://twitter.com/tariqnasheed/status/1378118772326768645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Ilhan Omar

Ilhan Omar, Other Leftists, Distract From Capitol Attack By Focusing On Gun Control And Racism

Gun Control

Racism

On Friday afternoon, U.S. Capitol Police announced that a suspect had been fatally shot by police after “ramming a car into two police officers at the Capitol building and then proceeding to charge at officers on-foot while wielding a knife.”
Both police officers were injured in the attack. The U.S. Capitol Police department announced in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/capitol-police-identifies-officer-killed-following-car-attack">brief statement</a> that one of the officers, Billy Evans, passed away from his injuries.
“It is with profound sadness that I share the news of the passing of Officer William ‘Billy’ Evans this afternoon from injuries he sustained following an attack at the North Barricade by a lone assailant,” said Acting Police Chief Yogananda Pittman.
It was later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-capitol-attack-suspect-identified-claimed-to-be-follower-of-farrakhan-admired-malcolm-x">reported</a> that “The deceased assailant who rammed two U.S. Capitol Police officers Friday and emerged from his car wielding a knife before police shot him has been identified as Noah Green, 25, an African American man who believed Louis Farrakhan is an incarnation of Jesus Christ.”
Facebook <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/facebook-quickly-scrubs-capitol-assailant-noah-greens-facebook-page-praising-farrakhan-as-jesus">moved quickly</a> to remove Green’s profile page shortly after he was identified by media outlets. Other notably swift actions were demonstrated by numerous “blue check” verified accounts on Twitter, who reacted to the early reports — before Noah Green was identified as the assailant — by assuming that the attack was perpetrated by a white supremacist, white nationalist, and/or a supporter of Donald Trump.
One verified Twitter user tweeted, “Without having the slightest clue about the ‘security incident’ at the Capitol, I’ma go ahead and call white nationalist terrorism on this one.”
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Without having the slightest clue about the &quot;security incident&quot; at the Capitol, I&#39;ma go ahead and call white nationalist terrorism on this one.
&mdash; Davidm1108 (@davidm1108) <a href="https://twitter.com/davidm1108/status/1378039710111596544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Another verified Twitter user tweeted, “ah, so they were white,” in response to a BuzzFeed reporter who tweeted, “Countee: Suspect was not known to Capitol Police. It does not appear to be terrorism-related at this time.”
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ah, so they were white. <a href="https://t.co/ubJ4Eux2pi">https://t.co/ubJ4Eux2pi</a>
&mdash; medusa (@tinykinseyscale) <a href="https://twitter.com/tinykinseyscale/status/1378060179678359553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In response to an NBC News reported who tweeted, “DC MPD Chief says there does not appear to [be] any ongoing threat and ‘it does not appear to be terrorism related,’” one verified Twitter user tweeted, “So it was a white Trump supporter?”
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So it was a white Trump supporter? <a href="https://t.co/Tub6mOkuUm">https://t.co/Tub6mOkuUm</a>
&mdash; Shabooty 🎮: #GenshinImpact (@SHABOOTY) <a href="https://twitter.com/SHABOOTY/status/1378056797882302472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Another verified user tweeted, “BREAKING: US Capitol under lockdown following thwarted attack by Trump terrorists who believe Matt Gaetz stole former president’s whole rapey vibe.”
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BREAKING: US Capitol under lockdown following thwarted attack by Trump terrorists who believe Matt Gaetz stole former president’s whole rapey vibe.
&mdash; Feodor Chin 🇺🇸❄️ (@FeoChin) <a href="https://twitter.com/FeoChin/status/1378057187130363904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Sharing a video of the crime scene shortly after the attack outside the U.S. Capitol, another verified Twitter user tweeted, “Trump insurrectionists are attacking our Capitol again. Multiple reports that 2 Capitol police have been shot.”
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Trump insurrectionists are attacking our Capitol again. Multiple reports that 2 Capitol police have been shot. <a href="https://t.co/gkGad08mou">https://t.co/gkGad08mou</a>
&mdash; &#8211; (@DrJialun) <a href="https://twitter.com/DrJialun/status/1378035919995891716?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Jamie Freeman, who appears to be a musician, tweeted from his verified account, “Somone [sic] rams vehicle into officer (and kills him) at US Capitol, attacks others with knife. Apparently ‘does not appear to be terrorism-related’. I don’t know yet but I’m *guessing* that means suspect was white?”
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Somone rams vehicle into officer (and kills him) at US Capitol, attacks others with knife. Apparently &quot;does not appear to be terrorism-related&quot;. I don’t know yet but I’m *guessing* that means suspect was white?
&mdash; Jamie Freeman 👑 🪓 (@jamiefreeman) <a href="https://twitter.com/jamiefreeman/status/1378062374565974019?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Talbert Swan took a different approach, claiming that the fact that the suspect was shot by police was evidence that he “wasn’t white.” Swan tweeted, “As soon as we heard the suspect in the Capitol attack was shot dead by police, we knew he wasn’t white.”
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As soon as we heard the suspect in the Capitol attack was shot dead by police, we knew he wasn’t white.
&mdash; Bishop Talbert Swan (@TalbertSwan) <a href="https://twitter.com/TalbertSwan/status/1378084038850834434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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