Think this is a new one. They had a deportation officer with ICE (who is on a FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force) question a Capitol defendant who wore a "GOD, GUNS & TRUMP” sweatshirt to the insurrection.
Jeffrey Register gave up the goods pretty quickly here, helpfully knocking out elements. He self-surrendered in Jacksonville today, per DOJ. justice.gov/usao-dc/case-m…
Seen a lot of Capitol case affiants, but think ICE deportation officer may be a new one.
Although it’s really Google that did most of the work here.
Really making some federal prosecutor’s pretrial detention memo pretty easy here. Beginning to suspect some of these Capitol defendants haven’t read the Muncel decision! (h/t @SandySkipper1)
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press urges Attorney General Merrick Garland to “make the treatment of the press an essential part” of any policing practices probes. rcfp.org/wp-content/upl…
DOJ’s consent decree with Ferguson put some media protections in place, requiring at minimum supervisor approval before officers made "any arrest of any member of the media, whether formally credentialed or not, including citizen-journalists and live-streamers.”
Superseding indictment makes it explicit: "The defendants engaged in domestic terrorism, as defined at Title 18, United States Code, Section 2331.” justice.gov/usao-dc/press-…
“The department is very judicious about deploying the term in the first instance, and typically will only do so in the backend of litigation when the facts and circumstances are going to be clear.” huffpost.com/entry/white-te…
“In many instances, the government is going to be constrained, to a certain degree, from stepping in front of a podium and saying, ‘Ladies and gentleman, we’re revealing domestic terrorism here.’” huffpost.com/entry/white-te…
On CNN, DC Police Officer Mike Fanone said it’s a miracle that there wasn’t a higher body count on Jan. 6, and that he’d only seen combat that brutal on a mass scale in the movies.
Judge Chris Cooper is collecting his thoughts on whether to release Richard Barnett (aka “Bigo”) ahead of trial.
A lawyer for “Bigo” argued that FBI special agents are “far more sophisticated than him,” which isn’t really a matter under dispute.
Judge Cooper says Jan. 6 was “deadly serious” and perpetuated by people who were sold and willingly bought a bill of goods about the election being stolen without any proof whatsoever.
NEW: Judge Cooper says he’ll release Barnett under strict conditions. Conditions include home confinement and a ban on possession of weapons “including, obviously, stun guns.”