FBI Collars Capitol Rioter In Assault On Michael Fanone

September 7, 2023 Extremists, Trump cultists

From the Justice Department:



A Virginia man has been arrested on felony and misdemeanor charges, including assaulting law enforcement, related to his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election.

Lewis Wayne Snoots, 59, of Louisa, Virginia, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with felony offenses of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and civil disorder.

According to court documents, United States Capitol Police (USCP) surveillance footage shows an individual, later identified as Snoots, entering the Lower West Terrace Doorway (the “Tunnel”) leading into the U.S. Capitol building, wearing what appears to be a gas mask on the top of his head.

Snoots is then seen approaching the established police line in the Tunnel and moving forward and backward with the nob of rioters as part of an attempt to overwhelm and breach the police line. Snoots is then seen pressing against a USCP officer’s riot shield in an attempt to prevent police from pushing the mob of rioters out of the Tunnel.

At about 3:17 p.m., Snoot is observed passing USCP riot shields back over his head and back to the mob of rioters. At 3:18 p.m., another rioter, Albuquerque Head, proceeded to drag Metropolitan Police Department Officer Michael Fanone out of the Tunnel.

Snoots observed Officer Fanone as he was restrained and dragged out of the Tunnel, and as Snoots moved closer to Officer Fanone, Snoots proceeded to grab Officer Fanone by the upper back.

Snoots continued to grab Officer Fanone by the upper back as the officer was further dragged away from the Tunnel and other law enforcement officers.

Court documents say that at about 3:19 p.m., Snoots used both of his hands to physically restrain Officer Fanone while other rioters assaulted him.

Open-source video depicts Snoots as he grabbed Officer Fanone’s right hand and pulled Officer Fanone’s right arm away from his body, which appeared to significantly hinder and impair Officer Fanone’s ability to defend himself against the continuous assaults by other rioters.

Following his assault on the Capitol and assault on Officer Fanone, Snoots made a statement later that evening, which appeared in a video posted to a social media website.

In the video, Snoots states, “I’m fed up with it, everybody is fed up with it. They have tear gassed our ass off of the Capitol steps, but it’s not over. What they don’t understand is it’s just starting. Every political a****** up in that place is now going to have a target on their back everywhere they go.”

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