Living through major historical events like the worst pandemic in a century and the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has been trying for adults. It can
The booking photo of Robert Gieswein, Jan. 18, 2021.
A 24-year-old Woodland Park man was indicted by a Washington, D.C. grand jury Thursday on charges of assaulting U.S. Capitol police officers, interrupting a government proceeding and damaging government property.
Robert Gieswein remains in federal custody and has a hearing tomorrow.
Gieswein is a member of a militia group called the Three Percenters, an anti-government extremist group. The FBI has dubbed the group dangerous.
Gieswein allegedly used both a baseball bat and aerosol spray to intimidate and assault at least three law enforcement officers, according to the four-page indictment released on Thursday.
Pro-Trump Lawyer Files Lawsuit in Texas Citing Lord of The Rings Reference
A New York man who filmed himself smoking a joint inside the U.S. Capitol building amid the Jan. 6 storming of the federal building has been arrested after his co-workers ratted him out to federal authorities.
James Bonet of Glen Falls has been charged with knowingly entering or remaining in in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authorities and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
Bonet s Co-Workers Alerted FBI after Video Shared on Group Chat
Stills from the videos uploaded by James Bonet on Facebook
Twitter Capitol building smoking with all my people! Bonet says while smoking a joint with other rioters in one of the videos he filmed inside the federal building.
Evan Vucci/AP Photo
In this Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, supporters listen as President Donald Trump speaks as a Confederate-themed and other flags flutter in the wind during a rally in Washington.
The deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was excruciating for Colorado Springs pastor, professor and former Senate candidate, Stephany Rose Spaulding.
Just a few days earlier she had been in the seat of the country’s democracy watching her good friend Cori Bush of Missouri be sworn in to her first term as a Congresswoman.
“And I know the security of the Capitol,” Spaulding said. “I couldn’t even get through security with a pen in my purse!”
Adam KlasfeldJan 19th, 2021, 8:07 pm
A federal judge has blocked the release of a white supremacist U.S. Army Reservist whom prosecutors warned would pose a “potentially catastrophic risk of danger to the community” if let out of jail, as was previously ordered on the eve of President-elect
Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Timothy Louis Hale-Cusanelli‘s hateful ideology and violent fantasies are detailed at length in court papers, which show that authorities found copies of
Adolf Hitler’s
William Luther Pierce’s
The Turner Diaries in his apartment.
Both antisemitic tracts have been tied to atrocities: Hitler’s led to the genocide of six million Jews during the Holocaust, and Pierce’s book depicting the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, bombing of an FBI building, and precipitating of a race war inspired Oklahoma City bomber