Police were so overwhelmed on Jan. 6 that they couldn’t make arrests.
But after Robert Wayne Dennis assaulted police, they got his name, address, social security number, and checked his ID. They told him they’d apply for a warrant later. He was arrested in Texas.
"your Affiant observed DENNIS charging MPD Officer J.S., and DENNIS is shown grabbing another MPD Officer's baton with both hands. DENNIS then struggles violently with MPD Officer J.S. and takes him to the ground.”
Robert Wayne Dennis was known to sleuths as #UnholyGoalie.
Cops released him "so that he could seek medical treatment that officers were unable to provide due to the ongoing riot.”
They had his name, SSN, and address, but he still ended up on a MPD “Persons of Interest” slide.
At some point in the past 9+ months, Robert Wayne Dennis probably thought for a fleeting moment that he’d gotten away with it. He had not. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
Here’s MPD getting Robert Dennis’ info before releasing him to seek medical care.
Some similarities here to the case against Nicholas James Brockhoff, who also gave police his name on camera after he assaulted them: huffpost.com/entry/nicholas…
Here’s MPD releasing Robert Dennis (aka #UnholyGoalie) so he could seek medical care after he assaulted police officers on Jan. 6. MPD got his info and the FBI eventually arrested him, but he had nine months of freedom that people who assault police officers don’t typically get.
Thanks to the tipster who passed that one along. My DMs are open, Signal in bio.
“If y’all were doing the right thing, then y’all would be letting us through to do what we need to do.” — yet another delusional member of the Jan. 6 crowd
Police also released the other Trump supporter captured on video there, Mark Ponder. He’s a D.C. resident, and he returned to the Capitol grounds after he was released on Jan. 6. It took authorities about two months to rearrest him for his conduct.
.@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.'"