The FBI also posted images of Robert Palmer on his preferred social media platform hours before he spoke to HuffPost. The photos were added to the FBI website last week, and multiple tips revealing his identity had been in the FBI's possession for a month. huffpost.com/entry/robert-p…
Here’s something we learned after publication: A month after assaulting cops at the Capitol and identifying himself by name, Robert Scott Palmer went to a Super Bowl celebration and identified himself to a reporter by name again, just to seal the deal. wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/sports/2021-02…
SCOOP: HuffPost spoke with the Florida man in an American flag jacket and a Florida for Trump hat who was caught on video assaulting cops at the Capitol with a fire extinguisher.
Judge ruled today that Robert Sanford, who threw a fire extinguisher at police during the Capitol insurrection, can be released pretrial with a GPS monitor.
Here’s something I’d missed: an attorney for Robert Sanford — the man who was captured on video striking three police officers with a fire extinguisher — said in a filing over the weekend that Sanford had traveled to D.C. on a Turning Point USA bus.
Having looked at the Facebook pages of a lot of charged insurrectionists, can say with some authority that many charged insurrectionists were big fans of content produced by employees of Turning Point USA.
Conservative leaders, civil rights and law enforcement organizations, and Sen. Chris Coons held a press conference in support of Vanita Gupta, Biden’s nominee for associate attorney general:
Marc Levin, the former director of Right on Crime, said Vanita Gupta "is exactly the kind of public servant that would thrive as associate attorney general.
National Sheriffs’ Association President David Mahoney said Gupta is "no stranger to law enforcement issues.”
And if you’ve read @aterkel on Sen. Coons’ role in dooming the Debo Adegbile nomination, you’ll obviously be interested in the role he’s playing here (along with the FOP, which has praised Gupta). huffpost.com/entry/fraterna…
NEW: Meet Danny “DJ” Rodriguez, the MAGA hatted Trump fanatic who brawled with cops, smashed out a Capitol window, and appeared to tase D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Mike Fanone in the neck during the insurrection. Story with @JessReports: huffpost.com/entry/fanone-t…
The FBI received tips about Danny Rodriguez last month, he was publicly identified online, and he's connected to current Capitol defendants.
But it wasn't until hours after HuffPost's inquiry to the bureau that a key witness heard from an FBI agent.
The team at @1600PennPooch — who correctly identified “Bullhorn Lady” last month — put together a video showing Rodriguez’s assault on Officer Fanone. Watch it here: huffpost.com/entry/fanone-t…
Yet another Capitol insurrection tipster calling the feds on their worst Facebook friend. Previously: huffpost.com/entry/facebook…
"Witness 1 previously attended school with LORI VINSON and was friends with her on Facebook, but had not spoken with her in several years.” courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
"She further claimed she knew there was something going on related to the certification of the electoral votes on January 6, 2021, but did not know that Congress was 'in session' at that time…” 🤔