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A Capitol rioter and member of the far-right “Three Percenters” militia group who is locked up in a Washington, D.C. jail penned a letter saying that as many as 30 of his fellow inmates who also participated in the Jan. 6 siege have formed a leaderless group, calling themselves the “1/6ers,” ProPublica reported Tuesday. The post Jailed Militia Member Reportedly Claims Capitol Siege Defendants Formed ‘1/6ers’ Group Behind Bars, Sing National...

Rolling Stone By Anita Muldoon could sense that this might be her last chance to make it as a cop. She was riding shotgun in a Minneapolis squad car in the fall of 1993 when her training officer offered a blunt assessment of her standing. “You’re not trusted,” he told her. “And you won’t be until you’re in a physical fight.” To rectify this, he said, she’d need to “leak” someone, as in make them bleed. Muldoon felt her stomach drop. She had known she would stick out f...

Reprinted with permission from ProPublica In a letter sent from behind bars, a key defendant in the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol said he and fellow inmates have bonded in jail, and boasted that those attacking the building could have overthrown the government if they had wanted. The letter is signed "the 1/6ers" and expresses no remorse for the assault on the Capitol, in which five people died. While no names appeared on it, ProPublica was able to determine, through interviews with his ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In a letter sent from behind bars, a key defendant in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol said he and fellow inmates have bonded in jail, and boasted that those attacking the building could have overthrown the government if they had wanted. The letter is signed “the 1/6ers” and expresses no remorse for the assault on the Capitol, in which five people d...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Late at night on Jan. 5, the day before President Donald Trump was scheduled to deliver a defiant speech before thousands of his most dedicated supporters, his former adviser Steve Bannon was podcasting from his studio near Capitol Hill. He had been on the air several times a day for weeks, hyping the narrative that this was the moment that patriots could stand up and pull out a Trump win. "Its all converging, and now were on the point of attack t...

Steve Bannon broadcasts election denialism and apocalyptic calls to action several times a day via Apple’s podcast app. He’s not the only one using the platform to spread claims that became a rallying cry of the mob that threatened the Capitol.

Skip to main content Currently Reading Pushed to the edge by the Capitol riot, people are reporting their family and friends to the FBI Hannah Knowles and Paulina Villegas, The Washington Post Jan. 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Tear gas is fired at a pro-Trump mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6.photo for The Washington Post by Evelyn Hockstein. WASHSINGTON - When a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, Leslie hoped that this would be her Trump-supporting parents wake-u...

The politically liberal 35-year-old cried about the screenshots from her mothers Facebook page, posts defending the pro-Trump crowds and suggesting that Leslies mom made it at least to the Capitols steps. Then she reported her mom to the FBI - because "actions," she said, "should have consequences."

11 Gen 2021 di f.r.s. • 0 commenti In un articolo sull’Atlantic Elaine Godfrey spiega quali fossero gli scopi dei più organizzati tra gli insorti che hanno assaltato il Campidoglio americano lo scorso sei Gennaio, compresi la presa di ostaggi e processi sommari. “We are lucky, more than anything else, there wasn’t a large death toll,” Peter Simi, an expert on extremist groups at Chapman University, told me. “It could have been far, far worse.” Rioters could have set off these bo...