All posts tagged "Blm"

Federal prosecutors argued at trial that a Utah activist who filmed January 6 rioters was doing so in a "ploy" to spur them on, reported NBC News on Wednesday.

"John Earle Sullivan, also known as 'Jayden X,' is a self-purported activist and journalist on trial in Washington, where he faces a host of charges including felony obstruction of an official proceeding and civil disorder," reported Ryan J. Reilly. "Sullivan, who filmed the shooting death of rioter Ashli Babbitt after she attempted to enter the House Speaker's Lobby through a window broken by the pro-Trump mob, has become a cause célèbre on the right for those seeking to blame 'antifa' or left-wing provocateurs for the violent criminal actions undertaken by hundreds of rioters during the breach of the U.S. Capitol."

In the months after the attack, federal investigators seized $90,000 from Sullivan. He was allegedly selling footage of Babbitt's fatal shooting....

WASHINGTON — Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) doesn't understand why former President Donald Trump was impeached for the Jan. 6 attacks and the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election. Speaking to Raw Story on Wednesday, she implied that no one got hurt as a result of Jan. 6 or due to Trump's actions.

"Um, so, I think based on what happened with the [John] Durham report and the information that we're finding out now — as you know, I led out the censure effort against [Rep.] Adam Schiff (D-CA) — you know, when you have a sitting president that — now that the facts have come out, was very much so politically targeted, and then had this egregious campaign run against him for years, I think it's important for history to reflect that it was not accurate."

Luna did not clarify what in the impeachment was not accurate. ...

William Beals, a violent right-wing extremist who entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, has been banned from the Tennessee nuclear power facilities where he worked, according to federal documents exclusively obtained this month by Raw Story.

But Beals remains a free man — not arrested, not charged — despite a bevy of evidence that he illegally entered the U.S. Capitol in a manner that’s resulted in charges against hundreds of other rioters.

Federal officials at the Tennessee Valley Authority denied Beals access to all TVA facilities on June 30, 2021, according to a letter he received from the public utility’s police force, which Raw Story obtained the letter through a Freedom of Information Act request....

Anti-government rancher Cliven Bundy released a statement on Tuesday apparently citing religion as a reason he would not sue officials with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Gawker reported.

By Jennifer Dobner