Richard Barnett, the man photographed with his foot on Nancy Pelosi's desk during the Capitol riot, is making another push for release: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2058…
A judge ordered him jailed after finding his "entitled behavior" showed disregard for the law: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Barnett attempts to draw a line from the George Floyd protests to the Capitol insurrection: "...while in no way equivocating their experience to the horrors of racism, they too began to complain how they have been ridiculed and exploited for generations by America’s ruling class"
Barnett is the latest Jan. 6 to try to relitigate pretrial detention in light of the DC Circuit's ruling in the Munchel case, which raised the bar the govt has to clear in cases that don't involve specific allegations of violence, property destruction, or leadership that day
Barnett is arguing Chief Judge Howell got it very wrong when she ordered pretrial detention and reversed a magistrate judge in Arkansas who had signed off on release. Now that Barnett's been indicted, the next round is before the judge assigned to his case, Judge Casey Cooper
Barnett is arguing that the court shouldn't consider the stun gun he had with him in the Capitol as a dangerous weapon because it didn't have batteries installed, which meant it was inoperable and only a type of walking stick
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