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Mar 16 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
A racist troll who was on bail on an attempted murder charge when he stormed the U.S. Capitol was ordered released from jail on Wednesday.

Matthew Beddingfield, per DOJ, tried repeatedly to hit an officer in the genitals with his flagpole.

His grandfather will be his custodian.
Story here: nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
The federal magistrate judge who first ordered Matthew Beddingfield released pretrial said he'd "be hard-pressed not to detain him" if the Jan. 6 defendant had been arrested in early 2021, when he was first identified by online sleuths. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Matthew Beddingfield -- known to online sleuths as #NaziGrayHat because he gave what appeared to be a Nazi salute during the Jan. 6 attack -- racially harassed social media users, DOJ alleged: nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Here’s some of Matthew Beddingfield’s violent, racist speech. Content warning:

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“I pepper sprayed 3 cops… I basically organized my own little militia and we fucking took over Congress.”

Wisconsin’s Riley Kasper has been arrested for assaulting cops during the Capitol breach. ImageImage
“TAKE AMERICA BACK”

“BE THERE WASHINGTON D.C. JANUARY 6, 2021 WILL BE WILD”

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"it was my group that busted the first gate and kept chasing the cops down and pushing them back into the capital” Image
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In case you missed it: A racist troll who violently stormed the U.S. Capitol while he was out on bail in a first-degree attempted murder case was ordered released pretrial in his Jan. 6 case: nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Matthew Beddingfield, who was seen giving a Nazi salute outside the Capitol, repeatedly used his flagpole to try to strike an officer in the genitals on Jan. 6, DOJ said. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
“I hope you’re hearing this loud and clear... if you screw up... I will look very disfavorably on that, and I will be very quick to revoke pretrial release and hold you pending trial,” a judge told Matthew Beddingfield. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
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NEW: DOJ wants 75 days of incarceration for Jenny Cudd, the Texas flower shop owner who bragged about storming the Capitol in a Facebook Live video and said she’d “absolutely” do it again.

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Jenny Cudd’s defense attorney, meanwhile, describes her client’s infamous Facebook Live video as a “drunken diatribe” fueled by Coors Light. nbcnews.com/politics/justi… Image
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