The Capitol Riot Defendants May Be Starting To Turn On One Another, Outing Far-Right Extremist Leaders

[Shabibilicious]

The Capitol riot defendants may be starting to turn on one another, outing far-right extremist leaders

 

 

Cheryl Teh

Thu, April 8, 2021, 1:44 AM

 

 

 

Rioters clashing with security forces at the US Capitol on January 6. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images

• Numerous defendants in January's Capitol riot are said to be turning on far-right groups.

• CNN reported Wednesday that at least one defendant agreed to work against the Proud Boys.

• Court records indicate that several plea deals with cooperators may be in the works.

The brotherhood of the Proud Boys may be falling apart, as attorneys on the case say some of the Capitol riot defendants have turned or are considering turning on the leaders of the far-right extremist group.

A CNN report on Wednesday quoted an attorney as saying a Capitol riot defendant had agreed to flip against the Proud Boys. In exchange for plea deals, cooperating defendants may have to work with the Department of Justice and prosecutors to build stronger cases against the head honchos of far-right extremist groups.

The extent of any cooperation with the DOJ and prosecutors is unclear, but CNN wrote that this was the strongest indication yet that one of the defendants was willing to work with authorities against the Proud Boys.

It was not the first sign, however, that there might be disloyalty within the ranks of the Proud Boys and other groups.

 

The Associated Press reported in February that another Proud Boy, Dominic Pezzola, was mulling a plea deal. Prosecutors accused Pezzola of snatching a police officer's riot shield and shattering a window at the Capitol to let rioters in.

There is also a history of Proud Boys members working with law enforcement.

In March, attorneys for the Proud Boys leader Joseph Biggs - who authorities allege was one of the first to clamber through a smashed window to get into the Capitol during the January 6 insurrection - argued that he should not be held in jail pending trial. The lawyers said in a court filing that Biggs had regularly spoken with the FBI in recent months to provide information about protests he was involved in and that these back channels, as well as the information he provided, should keep him out of jail.

Other groups linked to the storming of the Capitol are also seeing instances in which defendants are said to be considering trading information to escape indictment.

Insider reported this week that prosecutors were negotiating a plea deal with Jon Schaffer - a heavy-metal guitarist who was spotted storming the Capitol wearing an Oath Keepers hat, indicating his connection with the paramilitary group.

According to a now-deleted confidential court filing that was erroneously uploaded but seen by BuzzFeed News and Politico, Schaffer was involved in "debrief interviews" with prosecutors.

"Based on these debrief interviews, the parties are currently engaged in good-faith plea negotiations, including discussions about the possibility of entering into a cooperation plea agreement aimed at resolving the matter short of indictment," the filing said.

The criminal-defense attorney Martin Tankleff told CNN that he thought it likely that more cooperators would come forward and turn against the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, and other groups facing pressure from law enforcement since the riot.

"Whenever you have a large group of people arrested and in jail, prosecutors will typically observe the group and pressure defendants to flip on one another," Tankleff said. "They're going to start talking. They're going to start sharing information."

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/capitol-riot-defendants-turning-other-054429904.html

 

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[coorslite21]

Unlikely.......    CL

 

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/30/jan-6-capitol-riot-jail-time-478440

 

 

[nstoolman1]

They will  use their Gen Flynn tactics and threaten innocent family members wth jail time to flip on a 

non existant crime.

[Donziman]

Fake news. Just look at these so called NEWS outlets. Leftist all writing fake news just to promote their agenda..

[Shabibilicious]

11 hours ago, Donziman said:

Fake news. Just look at these so called NEWS outlets. Leftist all writing fake news just to promote their agenda..

 

From Newsmax

 

Study: White Capitol Protesters Fear Losing Rights to Minorities

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By Brian Freeman    |   Wednesday, 07 April 2021 01:01 PM

 

Most of the estimated 380 people arrested in connection with the January 6 attack on the Capitol came from places where white people feared their rights in American politics and culture were being taken away by minorities and immigrants, political scientist Robert Pape found in a study he conducted, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

"If you look back in history, there has always been a series of far-right extremist movements responding to new waves of immigration to the United States or to movements for civil rights by minority groups," Pape said. "You see a common pattern in the Capitol insurrectionists. They are mainly middle-class to upper-middle-class whites who are worried that, as social changes occur around them, they will see a decline in their status in the future."

Pape said that the most crucial finding in his study was that counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic white population are the most likely to produce protesters.

He added that this held true even when controlling for population size, distance to Washington, unemployment rate, and urban or rural location.

In Pape’s study, conducted with the help of researchers at the Chicago Project on Security and Threats, a think tank that he runs at the University of Chicago, he determined that only about 10% of those charged were members of established far-right organizations.

However, he emphasized that the remaining 90% of the "ordinary" protesters constitute a still solidifying mass movement on the right that has proven itself willing to put "violence at its core."

 

"If all of this is really rooted in the politics of social change, then we have to realize that it’s not going to be solved -- or solved alone -- by law enforcement agencies," Pape said. "This is political violence, not just ordinary criminal violence, and it is going to require both additional information and a strategic approach."

He suggested that right-wing media outlets will stoke fear about whites losing their rights to minorities and, therefore, the racial and cultural anxieties that lay beneath the attack at the Capitol are not going away.

Pape said that in American history other mass movements have formed in response to large-scale cultural change.

For example, in the mid-1800s, the Know Nothing Party, a group of nativist Protestants, was established in response to large waves of mostly Irish Catholic immigration to the United States.

In a similar fashion, Pape said the Ku Klux Klan experienced a revival after World War I that was spurred, in part, by the arrival of Italian immigrants to the country and the beginnings of the so-called Great Migration of Black Americans from the rural South to the industrialized North.

Law enforcement officials have estimated that between 800 and 1,000 people entered the Capitol on January 6. In recent court filings, the government has indicated that more than 400 people may face charges at some point.

 

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/capitol-protesters-study-minorities/2021/04/07/id/1016678/

 

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Edited April 9, 2021 by Shabibilicious

[coorslite21]

1 hour ago, Shabibilicious said:

 

From Newsmax

 

Study: White Capitol Protesters Fear Losing Rights to Minorities

(Getty Images)

By Brian Freeman    |   Wednesday, 07 April 2021 01:01 PM

 

Most of the estimated 380 people arrested in connection with the January 6 attack on the Capitol came from places where white people feared their rights in American politics and culture were being taken away by minorities and immigrants, political scientist Robert Pape found in a study he conducted, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

"If you look back in history, there has always been a series of far-right extremist movements responding to new waves of immigration to the United States or to movements for civil rights by minority groups," Pape said. "You see a common pattern in the Capitol insurrectionists. They are mainly middle-class to upper-middle-class whites who are worried that, as social changes occur around them, they will see a decline in their status in the future."

Pape said that the most crucial finding in his study was that counties with the most significant declines in the non-Hispanic white population are the most likely to produce protesters.

He added that this held true even when controlling for population size, distance to Washington, unemployment rate, and urban or rural location.

In Pape’s study, conducted with the help of researchers at the Chicago Project on Security and Threats, a think tank that he runs at the University of Chicago, he determined that only about 10% of those charged were members of established far-right organizations.

However, he emphasized that the remaining 90% of the "ordinary" protesters constitute a still solidifying mass movement on the right that has proven itself willing to put "violence at its core."

 

"If all of this is really rooted in the politics of social change, then we have to realize that it’s not going to be solved -- or solved alone -- by law enforcement agencies," Pape said. "This is political violence, not just ordinary criminal violence, and it is going to require both additional information and a strategic approach."

He suggested that right-wing media outlets will stoke fear about whites losing their rights to minorities and, therefore, the racial and cultural anxieties that lay beneath the attack at the Capitol are not going away.

Pape said that in American history other mass movements have formed in response to large-scale cultural change.

For example, in the mid-1800s, the Know Nothing Party, a group of nativist Protestants, was established in response to large waves of mostly Irish Catholic immigration to the United States.

In a similar fashion, Pape said the Ku Klux Klan experienced a revival after World War I that was spurred, in part, by the arrival of Italian immigrants to the country and the beginnings of the so-called Great Migration of Black Americans from the rural South to the industrialized North.

Law enforcement officials have estimated that between 800 and 1,000 people entered the Capitol on January 6. In recent court filings, the government has indicated that more than 400 people may face charges at some point.

 

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/capitol-protesters-study-minorities/2021/04/07/id/1016678/

 

GO RV, then BV

Always the "race" card.....it sells....even for the off brand outlets....

That MSM is consistant!

CL