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Jan 27 12 tweets 5 min read
Officer Jeffrey Smith died by suicide just days after the Capitol attack. Now, thanks to his body camera video, we know much more about all that he went through on Jan. 6. Watch: huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
A D.C. resident was stressed after the Jan. 6 attack, so she visited her chiropractor a few blocks from the Capitol. Here’s what happened next: huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
Hours after the initial melee inside the Capitol building involving the Capitol Hill chiropractor, Officer Jeffrey Smith was struck by a metal pole outside the Capitol. Here’s the view from his body camera just after that attack: huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
If you look closely at this video released this week, you’ll see the Capitol Hill chiropractor in the mob as they bum-rush the door. Look just above the shattered window on the right:
Seconds after a member of the mob tosses an officer to the ground, the D.C. chiropractor breaches the Capitol building with a hoodie over his head:
Turns out “on the Capitol steps” wasn’t quite the whole story.

Quite an omniscient transition, in hindsight!
“We were literally in the halls of the Capitol pushing people out,” Jeffrey reportedly texted the friend. “It was like a movie.” huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
“He didn’t know the layout of the Capitol. The last time he was in the Capitol was when he was 10 years old. He didn’t know if he was going to get out alive.” huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
Watch some of what the late Officer Jeffrey Smith experienced on Jan. 6.

Smith’s widow was stonewalled for months, but the estate finally pried the video free thanks to a civil suit filed against two of the conspiracy theorists who stormed the Capitol:
There’s really zero doubt that David Walls-Kaufman stormed the Capitol. He hasn’t even really disputed it, because that would be absurd. The only real questions are whether he catches felonies and whether he’s specifically charged with assault. huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-…
John Strand and Simone Gold, who breached the Capitol building through the east rotunda doors at the same moment as David Walls-Kaufman, have both been indicted for obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting.
From a source: Here’s video of David Walls-Kaufman watching the windows get smashed shortly before he breached the Capitol with the surging mob.

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Jan 26
"The evidence shows Defendant orchestrated a large-scale attack on the federal government with the purpose of intimidating, by violence, federal officials and disrupting official governmental proceedings incident to the transfer of power…”
"Defendant’s authoritative role in the conspiracy, access to substantial weaponry, and ability to finance any future insurrection, combined with his continued advocacy for violence against the federal government, gives rise to a credible threat…”
"Here, the Court is not faced with a peaceable assembly and petitioning, as Defendant’s extraordinary actions and the ripple effects that followed are outside the bounds of protected activities.”

LINK: documentcloud.org/documents/2119…
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Jan 26
Sentencing hearing underway for QAnoner Nicholas Languerand, who repeatedly assaulted cops at the Capitol and claims he feels "lied to and betrayed" by leaders he respected.

Judge John Bates finds that 46 months in prison is the bottom of the advisory sentencing guideline.
"People who engage in terrorism always think they're in the right," federal prosecutor tells the judge.
DOJ quotes Languerand: “If you are ok with fraudulently certifying an election to win, then I’m ok with attacking a government building to stop you”
Read 9 tweets
Jan 26
“We took the fuckin capital… It was so fun."

NEW: Virginia’s Markus Maly (at right) arrested and charged with spraying officers at the Capitol.

"Online sleuths identified this subject as #JohnSprayne."
“There were lots of pissed off patrios there and we wanted our voices to be heard. I myself one [sic] of them. We were there to support President Trump and the voting process. A voting process that was hijacked and stolen from us.” justice.gov/usao-dc/press-…
"I did have a riot shield but half way back to the bus a cop say [sic] me and took it from me.”
Read 5 tweets
Jan 26
As we wait on a federal magistrate judge in Texas to rule on whether Oath Keepers founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes III should be released pretrial in his seditious conspiracy case, here's some new reporting on his proposed custodians in California. (THREAD)
As @joshgerstein reported, a family member identified in court only as Benjamin told the judge that he had no connections to the Oath Keepers or the Capitol riot.

"We're boring," Benjamin testified.

politico.com/news/2022/01/2…
CNN reported that Benjamin testified that family members who live on the ranch in California are not Oath Keeper members. cnn.com/2022/01/24/pol…
Read 8 tweets
Jan 25
Immediate candidate for the top ten list of Jan. 6 case footnotes.
Feds want Jeramiah Caplinger to serve three months behind bars. He’s set to be sentenced in a week, on Feb. 1. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
DOJ’s sentencing memo cites Caplinger’s quote tweet of @haleytalbotnbc in July in which Caplinger called members of Congress huddled in the balcony during the Capitol attack "worthless cowards.”
Read 7 tweets
Jan 25
The Capitol rioter in the purple hat who flings the officer to the ground here so the mob can storm the Capitol is no. 166 on the FBI's Capitol Violence page, and known to sleuths as #smokyinsider.
The FBI has circulated this photo, but there are better ones on sleuth websites.
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