Edward Jacob Lang, the man who allegedly posted a photo of himself holding a police riot shield with the "THIS IS ME" and the pointy emoji on Instagram, has a hearing going on now.
This is Lang's initial appearance to advise him of his rights, followed by a bailed hearing.
U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Krause is presiding.
The prosecutor is Assistant U.S. Attorney Benjamin Gianforti.
Gianforti: The government is seeking detention in this matter.
Lang is consenting to detention without prejudice to a future motion for bail.
Lang, charged with assaulting officers and other crimes, has an injury, according to his attorney: "His foot is severely bruised and in substantial pain to the extent that he need medical attention."
Lang's counsel also wants protective custody for his client due to the "publicity and controversy that this case has stirred."
The judge said he doesn't have the power to order the Bureau of Prisons' decisions.
"At most, I can make a notation that a request has been made."
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Hours after the end of Donald J. Trump’s presidency, the Capitol siege prosecutions resumed with the charging of his gun-toting backer with a website awash in antisemitic, conspiratorial and extremist imagery.
Fisher's website, listed in court papers but not shared here, showed him posting Clown Pepe memes, antisemitic conspiracy theories, and QAnon-style fantasies calling President Biden and his family "Degenerate Criminal Pedophiles."
Fisher's initial appearance is now beginning, after a brief delay.
Prosecutors also quoted from an 88-second video rant titled "KILL YOUR SENATORS" posted two days after the U.S. Capitol siege.
He allegedly spouted the white-supremacist slogan "ZOG" after a barrage of threats.
Complaint in the story at the top of the thread.
"ZOG" is short for the white supremacist conspiracy theory of a "Zionist Occupied Government," and "88"—the length of the video—is neo-Nazi code for "Heil Hitler," after the eighth letter of the alphabet.
NM County Commissioner Couy Griffen, founder of “Cowboys for Trump,” was arrested today in D.C. in connection the U.S. Capitol siege of Jan. 6.
Griffen said in a since-removed Facebook video "there’s gonna be blood running out of" the Capitol if they return, per court docs.
"[A]t the end of the day, you mark my word, we will plant our flag on the desk of Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Donald J. Trump if it boils down to it."
The video transcript's excerpt, per court docs.
He also threatened: "There will never be a Biden presidency,” per docs.
A prosecutor warned at a hearing today that Larry Brock, seen below holding tactical restraints, intended “to take hostages.”
U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey Cureton released him to home confinement anyway, at a hearing without remote access to the press. apnews.com/article/capito…
Court proceedings are about to begin for Cleveland Grover Meredith, Jr., whom prosecutors say texted "War time" on the day of the insurrection after receiving a message "Pence blew it."