Long-awaited news: #CatSweat is arrested! He's Logan Barnhardt, bodybuilder from MI. One of the key attackers at the tunnel when Officer Miller was dragged. ID was fast once #SeditionHunters found his clear face shot, likely by many (including the great @rocketman2001). 1/
We thought that #CatSweat looked pretty full of himself, and Logan did have an active social media profile, as you might expect for an aspiring model (surprising how many are at the Capitol). Calls himself "knuckle sandwich" - better worry about that pretty face in prison. 2/
He's a heavy machine operator at Barnhart and Son Construction near Lansing, Michigan (hope dad is ashamed), works as a trainer at a gym in Lansing. His partner-in-attack #Scallops was also a gym rat, but Logan seems to have arrived & acted alone. Unclear what radicalized him 3/
Some pics are from his Insta "knuckle_sandwich35", found by @FixThisNow2021 (& likely others!). @MichiganTea has found his romance novel covers & more. It all feels almost funny & we need a laugh; at the same time it wasn't funny for Officer Miller. 4/
Here's the roundup of the hashtags and arrest status of the figures in the famous photo of the violence that closed out "Phase II" of the tunnel attack. Arrested in red, including now #CatSweat. Please comment on anyone who's been missed. 5/
To clarify the timing of finding / charging Jan 6 attackers: #CatSweat went on the FBI wanted list in January (#128). A clear face shot was posted on April 22. By April 23, IDs were sent to FBI by multiple people - h/t @MichiganTea too. And arrest in August, 4 months later. 6/
You can see the attack for which Logan Barnhart aka #CatSweat was arrested in this compilation video - put together for #Scallops (Jack Wade Whitton), but Barnhart appears at center in his Caterpillar sweatshirt as the crowd yells "pull the cops out!" 7/
Thanks to @CMominator for the additional hashtags.
#ThreePercentSheriff's attack was also brutal - the tunnel fight Phase I & Phase II both ended in bursts of some of the worst violence on Jan 6, and to the dragging of an officer (Fanone and Miller) 9/
The superceding indictment combines Sabol, Stager, Lopatic, Mullins, Whitton, Barnhart, and Mcabee (note typo in earlier tweet). 22 counts, most involving groups attacking together. McAbee (#ThreePercentSheriff) is seen as working with Mullins (#Slickback) 10/
Update: pre-trial detention request for McAbee (#ThreePercentSheriff) is now available. @emptywheel notes that DOJ for the 1st time seems to lay the groundwork for making attackers culpable in Roseanne Boyland's death by denying her access to medical aid. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Adding (h/t @emptywheel) one prior mention of denial of medical aid to Boyland, from Sabol's detention motion in March, potentially aimed at establishing criminal negligence through disregard for human life. 13/
Note that #ThreePercentSheriff was, in fact, a sheriff's deputy - Williamson County, TN. How could he attend the Capitol attack on Jan 6? Because he'd just totaled his car, hurt himself, & requested to be placed on disability (h/t @Mimifishin for finding his wife's FB). 14/
At the Capitol it was #ThreePercentSheriff who dragged out officer A.W. who lies prone in the famous photo. (Miller was dragged just before). And then his arm hurt. And so he ASKED THE POLICE TO LET HIM IN to get aid, pointing to the "Sheriff" on his police-issue vest. 15/
DOJ emphasizes that betrayal: "..that McAbee engaged in violent assaults of fellow law enforcement officers WHILE HE HIMSELF WAS A SHERIFF'S DEPUTY & then attempted to use that status to obtain special treatment is powerful evidence of his lack of regard for legal authority." 16/
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#SeditionHunters - a mob of thousands marched on the Capitol today...of Brazil. Still trying to parse the story but the unpopular Bolsonaro seems to follow the U.S. playbook: attacks on state institutions & laws, massed crowds, manufactured spectacle. 1/ theguardian.com/world/2021/sep…
If there's any doubt that Brazil is copying the U.S, consider the costumes chosen. The sign at L is in support of Congressman Daniel Silveira, former military police, arrested for threatening a justice on Brazil's Supreme Court. From newspaper O Globo. 2/ translate.google.com/translate?hl=e…
Former Trump adviser Jason Miller was in Brazil, met with Bolsonaro, then was detained and questioned for 3 hours at the Brasilia airport, supposedly at the order of threatened Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes. 3/ washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
#SeditionHunters - FBI has released chilling new surveillance cam video of #FBI174AOM and #FBI175AOM, who seem to lie in wait for the news photographer they attacked. 1/
Sandy Weyer of PA was previously arrested, potentially to aquire her footage of this same assault. These two (174, 175) have been a longstanding ID problem. Their deliberateness, the covid masks, the concealement, suggest more than just normies. 2/
#SeditionHunters - we knew that PA State Sen #IamDougMastriano, former Army Lt. Col, was present at the Jan 6 attack, walked around the Capitol, & saw the NE barricade breach firsthand. Now @K2theSky and team show that he was on the E Plaza to watch the stairs breach as well. 1/
After Trump's speech, Mastriano rode a VIP golf cart from the Ellipse to the W. Capitol like the high-level #SeditionVIP that he is, then did a grand tour of the successive breaches. K2's team track his circuit. (Video by @CoryCullington.) 2/
Mastriano's golf cart meant he would have arrived in plenty of time for the 1:47 PM breaking of police lines under the NW Scaffold. He then followed organized instigators around to the NE barricades, crossed police lines in the breach, & stayed for the taking of the E. stairs. 3/
#SeditionHunters - last night's arrest of LA extremist David Dempsey shows the power of the crowd. He covered his face fully on Jan 6, viciously attacked at the tunnel. His tag #FlagGaiterCopHater announced Jan 19; his ID an obsessive quest for many.. 1/ justice.gov/usao-dc/case-m…
The call went out Jan 19 to match #FlagGaiterCopHater to photos from previous rallies, look for similar gear. Many of these extremists keep the same clothes, armor, have clear face shots on other dates... 2/
Feb 20 someone found a Jan 6 interview of #FlagGaiterCopHater next to the gallows, describing how he wanted to hang members of Congress. Still has his gaiter over his face. 3/
Snopes is now validating #SeditionVIP's! Here they use #SeditionHunters' research to confirm that #IamTinaForte, who is challenging Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the 2022 Congressional race (NY-14), was at the Capitol on January 6 (h/t @DianthaSol & many others who helped). 1/
Here is Tina Forte on the W. Capitol lawn shortly after the first barricade breaches. Filmer: "This is what happens when you storm the Capitol!" Forte: "That's right! This is what happens!" (find by @DianthaSol). 2/
..and from Tina's own livestream, at the Lincoln Memorial earlier in the morning Jan 6. "This is what Nancy Pelosi is doing to our Constitution! She's ripping our Constitution - she's destroying it!" The giant Pelosi poster is by Scott LoBaido. 3/
#SeditionHunters - House Select Jan 6 Committee drops the first requests for federal records, aiming to untangle potential organization of Capitol attack. Scott MacFarlane needs 8 tweets just to list them all. Focus is on overt attempts to prevent peaceful transfer of power. 1/
The J6 Committee request includes all records relating to Cindy Chafian from April 2020 to Jan 20, 2021. Also a huge list of rally speakers and VIPs. Looks like there will be a reckoning for the #SeditionVIP's, the top of the food chain. 2/
#SeditionHunters first broke the sighting of Chafian amidst the violence at the Capitol - the efforts of many people over many months to find, verify, analyze. Now confirmed independently by Raw Story who did their own careful, rigorous investigation. 3/