Five years ago, @dliebelson, @shaneshifflett and I led a newsroom-wide effort to collect a year’s worth of data on jail deaths nationwide. This was the first piece in our series, focusing on the most common and preventable cause of jail deaths: highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/sa…
The jail deaths project remains one of the most important works of my career. Sadly, federal data on jail deaths remains outdated and aggregated at the state level, rendering it practically useless. huffpost.com/entry/jail-dea…
This death has also really stuck with me. It received zero coverage at the time, and only surfaced as a result of one of our public records requests. huffpost.com/entry/hampton-…
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Several hearings in Capitol cases this afternoon, including one for Daniel Rodriguez, who was captured using a stun gun on D.C. Officer Mike Fanone. Rodriguez was arrested in March. huffpost.com/entry/daniel-j…
The Daniel Rodriguez case went straight to indictment, so we didn’t get specific confirmation of how the work of #SeditionHunters came into play. But this new discovery letter specifically cites @1600PennPooch’s video. #TaserPrick
Great story here. Another component to this is that it was abundantly at the time that McSwain was plotting a run for office and was making ham-fisted moves to use his office to bolster his name recognition. washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Newly released video shot on Oath Keeper Kenneth Harrelson’s phone shows the mob breaching the Capitol from the east and entering the rotunda. Feds say he sent it via text and later attempted to delete it.
Here's the rest of that clip that shows the chaotic scene inside the rotunda as the mob had control of the building:
"They're stormin' the fuckin' Capitol building..."
Here's another clip from the Harrelson case, from before the mob breached the actual building on the eastern front.
NEW: U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly indicates he believes it would be appropriate to release Doug Jensen under very strict conditions that amount to home detention.
(Standard reminder that pretrial release is theoretically the norm, and pretrial detention is supposed to be a last resort.)
Jensen’s obliviousness is helping him in court: Judge Kelly says it’s hard to imagine there was any preplanning when Jensen "had no basic understanding of where he even was.”