Chief Judge Beryl A. Howell of D.C. has stayed the order of a federal magistrate judge in New York, who said that Jan. 6 defednant Cody Mattice (aka #FenceSnatcher#CodyFromRochester) could go home until trial. He was caught spraying officers and ripping away a fence.
In their filing today seeking Cody Mattice’s detention, the feds say that when they interviewed James Mault in January that "agents had not yet discovered evidence that Mault used chemical spray against officers.”
The filing in the Mattice case today contains a shoutout to the "citizen sleuths" who identified #FlagGaiterCopHater.
He had nine months, and this was the best lie that Cody Mattice could come up with: That he was actually pepper spraying other rioters.
They found Cody Mattice’s Trump gear, but not the helmet. Turned out he borrowed that from James Mault’s dad, who drove them to D.C.
Last week, Cody Mattice‘s aunt Rebecca Evert told reporters that her nephew was “a great person.”
Welp, in text messages to “Becca Aunt,” Mattice wrote that he “fought off like 4 or 5 cops and stand fucking victorious.”
“Never been fuck8n better bro me and james got everyone to push through the police, me and
james fought through the police line on the door step of Capitol hill lmao.”
“it was dope me and james had everyone hyped bro even the proud boys were thanking us, legit bro it feels like a fuckin movie.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
“It’s a march on Capitol Hill. Nobody’s happy, no one’s satisfied. Time to fuck shit up… we’re taking this shit.”
James Mault to cops on Jan. 6: “Your jobs will be here when you come back after we kick the shit out of [inaudible]… What we’re doing is right, or there wouldn’t be this many fucking people here. And you guys fucking know this shit.” huffpost.com/entry/james-ma…
"the needs of his children... did not stop him from helping other rioters breach police barricades, did not stop him from climbing over other rioters so he could reach the tunnel in the Lower West Terrace, and did not stop him from using pepper spray against officers there.”
DOJ: "the risk of future violence is fueled by a segment of the population that seems intent on lionizing the January 6 rioters and treating them as political prisoners, heroes, or martyrs instead of what they are: criminals.”
.@nickquested has an important new film out called 64 Days that zeroes in on the critical timeframe in the lead up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
I’ve watched far more Capitol attack footage than any sane human being should, and even I was floored by what he’s got.
The day after the 2020 election, a mob of Trump supporters who believed Trump’s lies about voter fraud flooded to the TCF Center in Detroit, the largest majority-Black city in the nation.
NBC News’ own @PattersonNBC was inside, here’s some of what he saw:
As @janestreet and I report in our new story on the chaos at the TCF Center in 2020, some of the key instigators there — including folks banging on the windows — had official ties to the Trump 2020 campaign operation.
@janestreet Now, here's a key thing to know about the people who flooded down to the TCF Center on Nov. 4, 2020, because they saw some post on Facebook or something: They're plainly wrong. Trump didn't lose Michigan because of fraud in Detroit, where he performed better than he had in 2016.
NEW: One of the worst Jan. 6 rioters, David Dempsey, hit with 20 years in federal prison by a Reagan-appointed federal judge who has spoken out about the “preposterous” and dangerous rhetoric some Republicans have used in an attempt to “rewrite history" on Jan. 6.
Dempsey appeared to flash an “OK” sign as he was led out of court, several witnesses observed. Other rioters have yelled “Trump won!” as they were led out of court.
DOJ inspector general concludes, as folks who were paying attention four plus years ago did contemporaneously, that having Bureau of Prisons guards man civilian protests was a bad idea.
"Allowing federal law enforcement to operate with anonymity all but eliminates accountability when force is inevitably used against demonstrators." huffpost.com/entry/william-…
"A senior Justice Department official credited Barr with the idea of bringing in federal prison corrections officers, calling it an example of Barr’s 'outside the box' thinking." huffpost.com/entry/william-…
“If [we] don’t have a charge, we don’t say anything about an investigation; we just don’t do that.”
From the OIG report on Willam Barr and the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney who helped fuel the ex-president's bogus voter fraud narrative back in 2020.
He announced his resignation just before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which was fueled by Trump's election lies. huffpost.com/entry/david-fr…
"Freed’s unusual conduct came under intense scrutiny from Justice Department veterans who noted it was “wildly improper” for a federal prosecutor to be making public declarations about investigations that could be used as a political cudgel and help undermine confidence in the electoral process." huffpost.com/entry/david-fr…
DOJ inspector general's report on the Roger Stone sentencing recommendation (remember that?) is now out. It calls former interim U.S. Attorney Timothy Shea's leadership "ineffectual" and DOJ's handling of the Stone sentencing "highly unusual." Bill Barr refused to cooperate.
"we found that Barr had articulated his position about the sentencing recommendation both before and shortly after the first sentencing memorandum was filed, and before the President’s tweets." oig.justice.gov/sites/default/…
"Barr was in the middle of listening to what others thought about the idea of a second filing when someone mentioned the tweets, and then 'the air almost went out of the room.'"