Here's officers' perspective of Sam Lazar's assault on the police line on Jan. 6. Lazar would spend the next several months between his participation in the assault and his arrest attending political rallies in Pennsylvania, including a Rudy Giuliani event. #FacePaintBlowHard
A judge ordered last week that Sam Lazar be held until trial.
The feds also saw his appearance in that NYT doc. Here's how they submitted it. (CC: @trbrtc)
"STAND DOWN LEOs! STAND THE FUCK DOWN! STAND THE FUCK DOWN LEOs!... LEOs GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY OR JOIN US!" -- Sam Lazar #FacePaintBlowHard
A real cross-section of the "Stop The Steal" movement here. Don't sleep on the Gen-Zer in the Ruth Chris Steak House face mask. Big do-you-know-who-my-dad-is energy.
“Reached by HuffPost… Lazar claimed he ‘wasn’t able to make it’ to the Mastriano event he was photographed at, and then hung up.” huffpost.com/entry/samuel-l…
“People on the FBI’s wanted list tend to lay low, and while Lazar renamed his Facebook page and curtailed his public social media presence, he’s still attending political events with people who are telling him that the election was stolen.” huffpost.com/entry/samuel-l…
“The same day that Lazar attended the event with Trump conspiracy theorists who believe the election was stolen, Trump issued a series of diatribes calling the 2020 election ‘THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY!’ and the ‘greatest Election Fraud in the history of our Country.’”
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NEW: Kim Sorgente, known to #SeditionHunters as #BadSamaritanGrey, was arrested by the FBI in California. He was 263-AFO on the FBI list, and was previously charged in Orange County Superior Court in connection with assaults at a “Stop the Steal” rally in December 2020.
"SORGENTE was filmed and/or photographed wearing at least two different red 'Make America Great Again' baseball hats on January 6.” Link via @gwupoe: extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/…
“What are you doing? What are you doing? How does it feel to be a traitor?” he asked, standing in front of a confederate flag. "How does it feel to be a traitor? What the fuck do you think you’re doing?”
Mark Leffingwell's hearing is now underway. He’ll be entering a guilty plea to count two of his indictment: "Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officeers or Employees."
Thomas Sibick, who buried Officer Mike Fanone’s badge in his backyard after Jan. 6, is currently appearing before Judge Amy Berman Jackson.
Sibick now calls Jan. 6 "a disgrace to our nation that left a scar Trump is ultimately responsible for" and now says he loathes Trump. "He is not a leader and should be ostracized from any political future, what he honestly needs to do is go away!”
"The shame, dishonor, and regret endured are without question the worst emotions ever experienced. I disagree with what occurred that fateful day, especially the trauma suffered by Officer Michael Fanone, it is without question unconscionable.”
Here’s a 70 minute video that federal prosecutors provided in connection with Cody Mattice’s detention. Some new stuff here:
Featuring some footage from inside one of many Capitol B&Es.
Here's the mob of pro-Trump rioters actively engaged in criminal behavior co-opting “I can’t breathe” as a slogan as they attempt to storm the Capitol.
Tomorrow morning: A bond hearing for Trump fanatic Thomas Sibick, who buried D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Mike Fanone’s badge in his backyard.
Defense: "he made a last-minute decision to go to Washington, D.C. to hear former president Trump because he thought and believed that that would be the last time he would have the opportunity to hear Donald Trump as President Trump.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
DOJ: "It was in the defendant’s own back yard that he buried Officer M.F.’s badge, and from the comfort of his parents’ home that he told some of his lies to law enforcement about his actions on January 6.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…