A woman responsible for the conviction of at least one Jan. 6 rioter said that she has no regrets.
The woman was identified as "Witness I" in the FBI's affidavit against 35-year-old Andrew Taake, who pleaded guilty Wednesday "to assaulting law enforcement officers with a deadly and dangerous weapon, admitting that he used both bear spray and the metal whip to attack officers, during a hearing before U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols in Washington," NBC News reported.
The woman who turned in Taake said she sought out suspected rioters on the dating app Bumble soon after the Jan. 6 attack.
"I felt a bit of 'civic duty' I guess, but truthfully, I was mostly just mad and thinking, f--k these guys," she recalled to NBC News.
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She said she contacted about a dozen men after Jan. 6 and said it took "comically minimal ego-stroking" for them to come clean about their conduct.
"They just wanted to regurgitate a lot of these ideas to somebody, and it seemed like I was a willing participant," she recalled. "It definitely didn't take a lot of arm twisting to get them to start talking about it. Basically, me being like, 'Wow, so cool — then what? What else?' was pretty much all it took."
Following Taake's guilty plea, the woman was asked if she regretted turning him in.
"FINALLY," she said to NBC. "It's been wild to see him still defend that attack all this time, and makes me even more glad he was caught for it."
"I regret exactly nothing lol," she added.
