"They have one of our officers in the fucking crowd!"
New Jan. 6 vdieo from the Marcus Maly case:
"We didn't have a chance... he was still giving his speech... he was basically just telling people to come down here and rip this place down... it didn't even take them 30 seconds... there's not enough people. They just got trampled."
Just a guy in a gas mask casually holding bear spray under a Blue Lives Matter flag.
Maly, the feds say, is a career criminal and a liar. He tried to claim that it's not a chemical agent coming out of the pepper can he's holding, it's a piece of string from his hat.
Know who makes a bunch of cameos in the Maly video? Rally Runner, the enormous Tucker Carlson fan who Tucker Carlson viewers were told was "clearly a law enforcement officer." huffpost.com/entry/tucker-c…
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"At one point he put on a MAGA hat and was speaking into a bull horn saying 'I AM BLACK AND I VOTED FOR TRUMP' that showed absolute lack of leadership, I was embarrassed. I truly believe there was no place in place, everyone responded late, no one was telling us [where] to go."
Following the path of many GOP politicians before him, Enrique Tarrio says that his experience with the criminal justice system has been a real wake-up call about the criminal justice system. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
Enrique Tarrio, echoing Donald Trump, says DOJ is using locker room talk against Jan. 6 defendants. nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
“I'm gonna be dead honest: If you walked in the building, you know, I agree, maybe you should get hit with trespass. If you assaulted a police officer, fine, get hit with assault on a police officer…”
"Enrique Tarrio isn't being 'scapegoated' for Jan. 6, he 's being held accountable for the crimes he committed," a federal prosecutor tells jurors during the government's final presentation in the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial. They showed his "Premonition" video.
FINAL INSTRUCTIONS in the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial happening now.
Judge Kelly says jury deliberations will begin in the morning.
Jury selection began in December, opening arguments were in January.
It’s the fifth-something-ish day of the Proud Boys trial, but the first since Tucker Carlson got canned. Case could go to the jury as soon as this afternoon.
Nayib Hassan, representing Enrique Tarrio, is pointing the finger at Donald Trump for what happened "in your amazing and beautiful city that I have called home for the past five months."
Good morning from the Prettyman federal courthouse, where closing arguments are set to begin in the 3+ month Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial.
Before we begin, An Appreciation Tweet for @Brandi_Buchman and @rparloff for their gavel-to-gavel coverage of this critical case.
Last week, the government presented evidence they received from online sleuths at the last minute that appears to show Zach Rehl aiming a small can of pepper spray at cops: