Pro-Nazi Rioter Found Guilty Of Felony In Bench Trial

The Washington Post reports:

A Northern Virginia military reservist assigned to do intelligence work was found guilty Tuesday of obstructing Congress’s confirmation of the 2020 presidential election results in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Hatchet M. Speed, a Navy Reserve petty officer first class formerly assigned to Naval Warfare Space Field Activity at the National Reconnaissance Office in Chantilly, Va., was convicted of the felony offense, along with four misdemeanors, after a bench trial before U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden.

U.S. prosecutors cast Speed as a heavily armed Nazi sympathizer with top-level U.S. government security clearance who breached the Capitol with members of the Proud Boys extremist group.

Read the full article. Speed appeared here in January 2023 when he was re-jailed on separate charges of buying silencers. As I said at the time, it was all over when his parents named him Hatchet.

Judge Trevor McFadden said he did not consider Hatchet Speed’s antisemitic statements in his verdict. But the judge called evidence of Speed’s intent to corruptly obstruct Congress “the strongest and most damning” of the cases before him.https://t.co/J1vLFhImP7

— Leon Dash (@DashDeCosta) March 7, 2023

Hatchet M. Speed, a Virginia navy reservist, broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and then bought $50,000 worth of firearms in the aftermath, prosecutors said. https://t.co/9dgfZJdcGu

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 7, 2023

Hatchet M. Speed, a reserve petty officer in the Navy who had a top-secret security clearance, faces up to 30 years in prison for unregistered firearms in connection with Jan. 6.https://t.co/po6tt0gjqZ

— Stars and Stripes (@starsandstripes) January 20, 2023