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Category: January 6
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Colt McAbee keenly feels the irony of his living situation. The former Georgia and Tennessee sheriff’s deputy and onetime prison guard now wears a different uniform from the ones he pinned his badge to for seven years — tan work clothes issued to inmates at the Federal Medical Center run by the U.S. Bureau of…
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More than four years after January 6, US District Judge Amit Mehta sentences Caldwell to time served and a $100 fine. By Joseph M. Hanneman Blaze Media || Jan. 14, 2025 The way Tom Caldwell figures it, his own government wanted him to die. He said he was tortured during his intake at the Central…
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Now-Captain Michael Byrd also given favorable treatment, including $36,000 retention bonus and $21,000 in home security upgrades. By Joseph M. Hanneman Blaze Media || Nov. 22, 2024 The U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt on January 6 once fired his service weapon at fleeing vehicles near his home while his neighbor…
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The pair later met secretly with U.S. Capitol Police at the edge of Capitol grounds and shared at least one video clip as evidence before the Babbitt shooting investigation was even officially under way. Capitol Police did not make a video or audio recording of their talks with the men. One of the men sat…
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Thomas Caldwell’s attorney said his client is ‘more akin to a loud-mouth Walter Mitty than the Rambo-type figure the government has portrayed him.’ By Joseph M. Hanneman Blaze Media || Nov. 5, 2024 When federal agents raided the rural Virginia farm of Thomas Caldwell on Jan. 19, 2021, they were sure he was a kingpin…
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Fitzgerald’s peaceful 39-minute visit inside the Capitol brought federal felony and misdemeanor charges. Despite occasional discussions with Fitzgerald’s attorney about dropping the case, prosecutors have refused to dismiss the charges, even though Fitzgerald’s doctor says his cancer is incurable.
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“I’ve been telling my wife since the beginning of the suspension that we’re different people now,” O’Boyle explained. “We’re changed forever. We’re never going to be the Garret and Heidi that we were. I struggle with that on one end, because we liked our life.”
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In a filing in the criminal case against Jan. 6 defendant William Alexander Pope of Topeka, Kansas, the U.S. Department of Justice said carrying a flag in support of “free elections, fair elections and President Trump” constitutes a crime under Title 40 of the United States Code.
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WASHINGTON—A third U.S. Capitol Police security camera was turned away from the Democratic National Committee during the police response to the pipe bomb found near a bench at DNC headquarters on Jan. 6, The Epoch Times has learned. Security video obtained by the newspaper from Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) showed Camera 8021 that was recording…
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WASHINGTON—Two key U.S. Capitol Police security cameras that were pointed at the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) offices during the Jan. 6, 2021, pipe bomb incident were remotely redirected by police and didn’t record or broadcast critical portions of the police response, The Epoch Times has learned.