Held Without Bail: Rioter Who Gave Nazi Salute, Posted Calls To Kill Gays, Blacks, Jews, And Native Americans

March 1, 2022 Extremists, Trump cultists

NBC News reports:

A Jan. 6 rioter with a violent felony record who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 while he was out on bail on a first-degree attempted murder charge should be held until trial, the Department of Justice argued Tuesday in a court filing that alleged he has white supremacist views and an affinity for Adolf Hitler.

Matthew Beddingfield, of North Carolina, was identified by online sleuths and first named in an article that laid out how he was identified by members of the Sedition Hunters community who found leads using facial recognition technology. Video footage allegedly shows Beddingfield at the front of the police line using his flagpole as a weapon.

The New York Daily News reports:



In the DOJ’s latest public filings, they say “Beddingfield unabashedly expresses his wish that members of minority groups meet a violent end and in others he expresses a desire to inflict said violence or death on the same.”

Beddingfield’s cellphone had images associated with the Nazis, including swastikas, SS symbols, Hitler memes, “and other anti-Semitic, anti-Black, and anti-LGBTQ+ memes and caricatures.” Beddingfield harassed others on social media with slurs and pro-Nazi phrases, according to the memo.

“I’d like to reclaim America and it is fine if a few of my peoples enemies are ‘hurt’ in the process,” Beddingfield wrote in one post. “The only tragedy that happened was that Hitler didn’t finish the job,” he wrote in another.

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