Items carried at US Capitol by some in the mob, per court filings:
Guns, bear spray, hockey stick, baseball bat, taser, sharpened flagpole, knives, scissors, tourniquet, plastic knuckles, lacrosse stick
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Tomahawk ax
Zip ties
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Strobe light
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Rope and gallows
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Tree Branch, Pipe, Stick, Baton, Crutch, Club
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Fire extinguisher
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(stolen) shields
Add: Steel-toed boots
Add: Four foot rod
ADD: Metal whip
ADD: Sledgehammer
ADD: Rocks
Add: "Eye damaging" laser devices
ADD: Large speaker
Add: Pitchfork
ADD: Wooden plank and tossed bottle
ADD: "Poles with nails in them"
ADD: Coffee tumbler and bucket of liquid
ADD: Bottles
ADD: PVC pipe
ADD: Laser pointer
ADD: Metal spear
ADD: Pitchfork
ADD: Large speaker equipment, which broke an officer's foot when thrown
ADD: Gadsden Flag
ADD: Plywood
ADD: Police barricade as battering ram
ADD: Large Trump sign
ADD: "Electroshock weapon" and "wasp spray"
ADD: Large metal trashcan
(video via court exhibit released by US Justice Dept)
ADD: Wooden table leg
ADD: Skateboard
ADD: Hard plastic pylon
ADD: "Loaded Taurus Revolver"
ADD: Raid insecticide and WD-40 sprayed at police. Per interviews with officers
ADD: Helmet and crow bar
ADD: "Orange traffic barrier"
ADD: "Hard-knuckle tactical gloves"
ADD: Broom stick
ADD: "Large wooden object"
(That's what the court filing says)
ADD: Sledgehammer
ADD: "Ballistic plate carrier" and crowbar
ADD: "Trump flag being thrown like a javelin"
ADD: "White piece of wood"
ADD: Plastic bottle
ADD: "Water bottles"
ADD: Furniture Leg
ADD: Red/orange-colored barrier
ADD: Tabletop
ADD: "Parts of chairs"
ADD: "Metal sign frame"
ADD: Police baton used against officer
ADD: Flashlight
ADD: A**KICKING BOOTS
ADD: A thrown scooter... which appears to tangle the feet of police in this bodycam video ===>
ADD: "Full beer can"
ADD: “wooden handrail”
ADD: Batteries.... thrown at police
ADD: Battering ram device
ADD: "American flag on a light-tan colored pole"
ADD: Blue Trump flag
ADD: "A metal sign so large it was on wheels and took multiple people to lift it"
(per newly filed court motion by Justice Dept in case against defendant Thomas Hamner)
ADD: "Half of a softball"
(Defendant accused of using ball and flagpole and smashing window glass goes on trial tomorrow)
ADD: "Plastic Pipe"
ADD: "Pointed metal attachments on .. wooden pole"
ADD: Velvet rope stand
ADD: "Captain America-style shield affixed to a small wooden-handled broom"
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This ===>
ADD: Huge metal-framed Trump sign with wheels "about the size of a human head"
ADD: Bricks
ADD: "Metal knuckled gloves"
ADD: Coat rack
ADD: Enormous 2x4 beams
(Via video court exhibit released by US Justice Dept)
ADD: Enormous US flag
(Via video court exhibit released by US Justice Dept)
ADD: Railing
In newly unsealed Jan 6 case against James McNamara of Chicago, prosecutors allege he used a "railing" to ram a Capitol door several times
ADD: Stairwell beam
Police testimony at trial of Capitol riot defendant Bigo Barnett said a stairwell beam was thrown at police by someone in the mob (not by Barnett)
Police captain said the beam and other thrown items helped rioters breach the police line
ADD: "Hammer"
In court filing today, Jan 6 defendant from California acknowledges carrying hammer on his belt loop... citing concern about "Antifa"
ADD: "Grappling Hook"
Feds say Garret Miller carried the hook while amid mob on Jan 6. They argued "Miller was at the forefront of every barrier overturned, police line overrun, and entryway breached.."
A judge sentenced Miller to 38 months prison yesterday
ADD: A *lit* and thrown device that appeared to be a firecracker
(From sentencing memo and this week's hearing in Capitol riot case of David Lee Judd ====> )
ADD: "Large hunting knife in sheath on his belt"
From new US Justice Dept court filing... seeking pretrial detention in Capitol riot case of Kenneth Bonawitz, who's accused of dive-tackling two police officers
ADD: "Pepper gel"
At today's sentencing of Capitol riot defendant AIden Bilyard, prosecutors said his homemade pepper gel is "thicker, easier to aim acccurately"... "designed to cause pain"
ADD: "Billy Club" .... "Tire Thumper"
Per sentencing memo from defendant Shelly Stallings.. about her husband
ADD: "Metal coffee mug" thrown at police
Per newly filed Justice Dept case against Illinois defendant
ADD: Velvet rope
ADD: Wooden pallet
Latest weapon alleged to have been used in the US Capitol siege. According to newly posted charging documents in the case of Ronald Bryan of Louisiana
ALERT: A former Coast Guard Lieutenant and sharpshooter, who also served as a FEMA instructor, has been arrested and charged with making threats to kill President Trump. The charging documents in the case include voluminous allegations of social media between 2020 and last week
The social media posts, which span from 2020 to 2025, include on-line statements of using a gun, a knife and poison against Trump, per federal prosecutors
And they include alleged death threats made as recently as last Wednesday on social media
Judge has just ordered Pete Stinson held in jail, pending a hearing WEDNESDAY
Here are some of the alleged threats, per charging documents ===>
In a flurry of legal filings this afternoon, the Washington, D.C.-based Heritage Foundation conservative action group is asking a federal judge for a hearing TODAY or TONIGHT on the matter of the leaked audio of President Biden’s interview by then-Special Counsel Robert Hur
Heritage is asking a DC federal judge "for a temporary restraining order directing defendant to produce all recordings of former President Joseph R. Biden’s Interview with Special Counsel Robert K. Hur.. within 4 hours of this Court’s order"
Heritage and media outlets had filed Freedom of Information Act requests for the audio last year
Heritage argues the release of snippets of the audio by the Axios news service adds urgency to their request
Court filing: "How did a record subject to a claim of Executive Privilege and possibly classified make it into the hands of Axios? Add to that how did that record end up being spliced without notion? The Court must require an immediate answer to that question. This situation is untenable. Full disclosure is necessary now"
In a scathing 4-page court filing overnight, a group of FBI employees who investigated the Jan. 6 attack have asked a judge to order the Justice Department to destroy its controversial list of 5,000+ FBI employees who were part of the US Capitol Insurrection investigation (more)
The filing notes this week’s public statements by Ed Martin, the newly-named member of Justice Dept’s “weaponization” group. The group of FBI workers is worried about the list being publicized or leaked by Justice Dept, subjecting the agents to retaliation & violence (more)
The FBI employees argue that Martin publicly pledged Tuesday to “name and shame” employees inside the department.
Inside federal court in Milwaukee, awaiting 10am arraignment of Judge Hannah Dugan, whose arrest was announced by FBI Director Kash Patel last month. She’s accused of obstruction and re-routing an undocumented immigrant in her court away from agents
Judge Dugan is asking that her case be dismissed. She’s laced her argument with reference to Supreme Court’s 2024 “immunity” ruling which benefited Trump. She’s arguing her actions in her court were “official” acts
Judge Dugan’s defense argued in a filing yesterday:
“The problems with this prosecution are legion, but most immediately, the government cannot prosecute Judge Dugan because she is entitled to judicial immunity for her official acts. Immunity is not a defense to the prosecution to be determined later by a jury or court; it is an absolute bar to the prosecution at the outset”
NEW: In a blistering new order, federal judge Paula Xinis of Maryland says the Trump Administration is making "a willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations" in the court case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Judge Paula Xinis also finds the Trump Admin has "sought refuge behind vague and unsubstantiated assertions of privilege, using them as a shield to obstruct discovery and evade compliance with this court's orders" in Kilmar Abrego Garcia case
The judge's order also throws shade on the Trump Admin's claim Abrego Garcia is out of their control ... in Salvadoran custody
Judge: "Indeed, custody can be joint, and custodial status may be controlled by the Defendants acting in concert with El Salvador"