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Updated: 20 Feb 2021, 0:19 SIX more people linked to the far-right Oath Keepers militia group have been indicted on charges of planning the attack on the Capitol. The case against those linked with the anti-government extremist group is the largest conspiracy case brought by the U.S. Justice Department so far in the Jan. 6 insurrection. 12 12 Jessica Marie Watkins (2nd from L) and Donovan Ray Crowl (Center), both from Ohio, march down the east front steps of the U.S. Capitol with the Oath Keepers militia groupCredit: Reuters The new arrests included 54-year-old Floridian Graydon Young, 52-yea...

WASHINGTON (WTVD) -- The FBI announced six people, including a North Carolina woman, affiliated with the Oath Keepers were indicted in connection to the January Capitol riot. Authorities said the six individuals were arrested and charged in federal court for conspiring to obstruct the United States Congress's certification of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election results, among other charges. Graydon Young, 54, of Englewood, Florida, was arrested on Monday in Tampa, Florida. Kelly Meggs, 52, and Connie Meggs, 59, both of Dunnellon, Florida, were arrested on Wednesday in Ocala, Florida. Laura St...

How the Federal Government Investigates and Prosecutes Domestic Terrorism The J. Edgar Hoover F.B.I. Building, headquarters of the FBI, in Washington, D.C. (Susan Melkisethian, https://tinyurl.com/1c5gb2ve; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/) In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, many politicians, including President Biden, and public commentators called for renewed efforts by the federal government to combat domestic terrorism. That reaction followed a pattern over recent years in which mass shootings and other violent attacks—like those ...

  NOTE: The main leader of the Proud Boys Tarrio, 33, was arrested Jan. 4 and charged with the misdemeanor of destruction of property for the burning of a Black Lives Matter banner outside a D.C. church in December and charged with felony counts of possessing two extended, empty gun magazines, each capable of holding 30 rounds of .223-caliber, AR-15-compatible ammunition. He pleaded not guilty. Several other members have been arrested according to DOJ. Texas Man, Self-Proclaimed Leader of Honolulu Proud Boys Now Indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for Conspiracy to Obstruct Congress Men Inked ...

They Were Accused of Messing With Local Officers. Should the Feds Intervene? In Oregon and across the country, protesters charged with “civil disorder” say the vague federal law is unconstitutional. Early on July 13, 2020, another protest against police brutality in Portland, Oregon, turned into a clash with armed police in riot gear. Multnomah County law enforcement officials claim that during the melee a Seattle man named Jesse Herman Bates fired a small metal ball from a slingshot on his wrist, hitting a nearby firefighter in the chest. (Police say the firefighter was bruised but o...