Extremists

From the National Park Service: Pursuant to 36 CFR § 1.5(a)(1) the National Mall and Memorial Parks is implementing temporary closures of National Park Service public facilities, parking areas and roadways in response to credible threats to visitors and park resources. Groups involved in the January 6, 2021 riots at the US Capitol continue to threaten to disrupt the 59th …

Cleveland’s NBC News affiliate reports: Local and federal law enforcement officers searched the home of a former occupational therapist for Cleveland public schools who abruptly resigned following her alleged involvement in the riots and breach at the U.S. Capitol this week. 3News cameras spotted authorities from the FBI, U.S. Marshals Service, and Willoughby Police Department taking several file boxes and …

Cyber News reports: Parler, a social network used to plan the storming of the U.S. Capitol last week, has been hit by a massive data scrape. Security researchers collected swaths of user data before the network went dark Monday morning after Amazon, Google, and Apple booted the platform. The scrape includes user profile data, user information, and which users had …

CBS News reports: The mob was free to roam the halls of Congress, one group making it right up to Speaker Pelosi’s suite of offices. They smashed in one of the office doors before they went through to another door – behind which Pelosi’s staff cowered, terrorized. “The staff went under the table, barricaded the door, turned out the lights, …

The Washington Post reports: As a mob of pro-Trump rioters attacked the Capitol on Wednesday, one man in a white hat and backpack grabbed a police officer by the helmet, dragging the officer down the stairs. Soon, other rioters kicked and punched the officer, and one man even bashed the prone figure repeatedly with a pole flying an American flag. …

From the military site Task & Purpose: A retired Air Force Reserve lieutenant colonel who was seen in pictures of insurrectionists storming the Senate floor on Jan. 6 has been charged by federal authorities, according to the Justice Department. Larry Rendell Brock was arrested on Sunday in Texas, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia has announced. Brock …

Nashville’s NBC News reports: A self-described “hidden patriot” from Nashville, outed on social media as a rioter who invaded the U.S. Senate chambers Wednesday with a weapon and zip-tie handcuffs, was arrested Sunday on federal charges, NewsChannel 5 has learned. He was booked into a Nashville jail at 2:50 p.m. FBI agents took Eric Gavelek Munchel, age 30, into custody …

NPR reports: The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael Sherwin, says “hundreds” of people may ultimately face charges related to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, which interrupted a session of Congress and left five people dead. Sherwin says he doesn’t want to “Monday morning quarterback” the U.S. Capitol Police, but the fact that they …

The Washington Post reports: The desire to prevent a repeat of Wednesday’s attack helped drive Twitter’s decision to suspend Trump’s account after years in which he challenged the company’s policies against hate speech and inciting violence. Concerns about more violent incidents appear to be well-founded. Calls for widespread protests on the days leading up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe …

The Daily Beast reports: Arnold Schwarzenegger posted an impassioned address to Twitter Sunday morning in which he compared the attempted coup on Capitol Hill last week to the infamous 1938 Nazi attack on Jewish people known as the “Night of Broken Glass” in his native country Austria. “I grew up in a country that suffered from the loss of its …

The New York Times reports: A man who had an assault rifle was charged with threatening Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, after he traveled to Washington for the pro-Trump rally on Wednesday and sent a text message saying he would put “a bullet in her noggin on Live TV,” the federal authorities said. Federal agents said the man, Cleveland Grover …

The Washington Post reports: Police officers and at least one police chief from departments across the United States are facing termination, suspension or other discipline for their proximity to or alleged involvement in a chaotic gathering in Washington on Wednesday that ended in a riot at the U.S. Capitol and left five people dead. Departments in California, Washington state, and …

The Associated Press reports: Pope Francis said Sunday that he is praying for those who died in the U.S. Capitol rioting and has appealed for calm to prevail in the United States to help safeguard that nation’s democratic values. During his traditional Sunday noon remarks at the Vatican, Francis noted that five persons had died when a mob stormed through …

Mediaite reports: The United States Secret Service confirmed to Mediaite on Saturday night that they are aware of the threats made by pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood against Vice President Mike Pence on Parler. “We are aware of the comments and take all threats against our protectees seriously,” a USSS spokesperson told Mediaite Saturday evening regarding Wood’s threats. “Get the firing …

The Des Moines Register reports: Doug Jensen, a 41-year-old Des Moines man who was photographed among the mob that invaded the U.S. Capitol, has been arrested and is in custody in the Polk County Jail, Sgt. Ryan Evans of the Polk County Sheriff’s Office confirmed Saturday morning. He was booked into the jail at 1 a.m. FBI Public Affairs Specialist …

Axios reports: After several lawmakers were hassled in airports, federal authorities on Saturday increased security for members of Congress when they travel to and from Washington through the inauguration, according to an internal memo obtained by Axios. Why it matters: The unusual new safety measures reflect the increased incidents of angry Americans confronting lawmakers, and the hostile aftermath of Wednesday’s …

The Associated Press reports: Before she died in Wednesday’s siege at the U.S. Capitol, Rosanne Boyland was a recovering drug addict who wanted to become a sobriety counselor. But she also believed, wrongly, that President Donald Trump won the November election, and she’d begun following a dark conspiracy theory that has circulated online, her family said. “It just spiraled,” her …

Washington’s NBC News affiliate reports: The U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has charged at least 50 people in connection with riots at the Capitol, but one former prosecutor from that office has serious concerns that many more rioters could get away without being charged — or even be pardoned by President Donald Trump. “With Donald Trump, one never …

Via press release from the FBI: Jacob Anthony Chansley, a.k.a. Jake Angeli, of Arizona, was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. Chansley was taken into custody today. It is alleged that Chansley was identified as the man seen in media coverage …

The Washington Post reports: Because of the historic nature of the Capitol riot, the mob not only destroyed historically important artifacts but created them. As cleanup crews tended to the Capitol’s exterior on Thursday, another type of worker was sifting through the mess for salvageable items. Frank Blazich, a curator from the National Museum of American History collected signs and …