BREAKING: MAGA fanatic D.J. Rodriquez, who tasered D.C. Police Officer Mike Fanone during the Capitol insurrection, was arrested today in Fontana, California.
"The FBI received tips about Rodriguez in January, including one from a man Rodriguez assaulted on video at a Los Angeles-area rally. But it wasn’t until hours after HuffPost contacted the bureau… that the tipster heard from an FBI special agent.” huffpost.com/entry/daniel-j…
Today’s arrest of DJ Rodriguez for tasering a DC cop follows the March 17 arrest of Robert Scott Palmer. HuffPost identified Palmer with the help of @CountryOvParty. huffpost.com/entry/florida-…
ICYMI: Danny “DJ” Rodriguez was arrested yesterday. He electroshocked DC Police Officer Mike Fanone, who suffered a heart attack. The FBI received tips about him in January, but it wasn’t until HuffPost made an inquiry that they contacted a key witness: huffpost.com/entry/daniel-j…
Here’s our February 26 story, which was built on the excellent sleuthing work of the #SeditionHunters network. A federal grand jury indicted DJ Rodriguez on March 24, and he was arrested yesterday. huffpost.com/entry/fanone-t…
Read the eight-count indictment here, and stay tuned for Rodriguez’s bail hearing this afternoon: m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_60…
This trial of white St. Louis police officers charged with beating a Black undercover officer (who they thought was a protester) started with an all white jury over prosecutor’s objections. One alternate jury was subbed in last week, leaving an overwhelmingly white jury in place.
NEW: HuffPost, working with citizen sleuths, has identified a man out on bail on an attempted murder charge as a likely suspect in the Capitol attack. Story with @JessReports:
Matthew Beddingfield of North Carolina is out on bail on an attempted murder charge. He went to the Million MAGA March with his dad, who came back again on Jan. 6 to — as he wrote on Facebook — “take this country back from those commie bastards." huffpost.com/entry/facial-r…
Maddow segment on the beef John Cornyn has with Vanita Gupta:
Segment references HuffPost’s coverage of the support Vanita Gupta has received from a wide range of law enforcement organizations: huffpost.com/entry/republic…
We first reported on the support she received from law enforcement organizations and the FOP’s pushback on the attacks against Vanita Gupta here: huffpost.com/entry/vanita-g…
The FBI Capitol wanted photo of the suspect who looks like Rick Moranis has received more media coverage than any other wanted photo the FBI has posted, which is a pretty solid argument for giving insurrection subjects nicknames! huffpost.com/entry/rick-mor…
"Because of the sheer number of defendants being targeted, the FBI hasn’t chosen to give nicknames to any Capitol insurrectionists yet.” huffpost.com/entry/fbi-capi…
Also note to self: 12:53 a.m. is not the best time to make a Twitter joke that would’ve killed it in the morning: