Insurrection Detection

Image courtesy of Law and Crime Network and U.S. Department of Justice      There have been a lot of strange occurrences in January 6th cases, from the FBI questioning a Biden campaign staffer who happened to share the same name as a January 6th defendant to an ex-boyfriend turning in a woman who stormed the Capitol in a pink beret. However, the arrest of a Pennsylvania man last month has to be among the most bizarre cases I have covered.       Ian MacBride of Pennsylvania is facing a felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding and several related misdemeanors for his actions that day. In the leadup to January 6th, MacBride sent graphic messages threatening violence against members of Congress, including promising to "literally drag them out of the Capitol and shove broom sticks up their asses." Someone has some suppressed fetishes. He joined a caravan of buses carrying dozens of Pennsylvanians to the Capitol, bragging about confirming his s...

     Enrique Tarrio is the person outside of the Trump White House most responsible for the events on the January 6th insurrection. The leader of the far-right Proud Boys, he was responsible for directing the army of over 100 Proud Boys from his hotel room in Baltimore, earning a conviction for seditious conspiracy and a 22-year prison sentence.      Ethan Nordean was the on-the-ground leader for the Proud Boys on January 6th and had a yearslong history of street-level violence in the Pacific Northwest that ended with a seditious conspiracy conviction and 18-year prison sentence.      Stewart Rhodes was the leader of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia group that advocated for civil war to achieve an extremist vision of limited government. He was convicted of seditious conspiracy for organizing a group of dozens of his followers to breach the Capitol and stockpile weapons in a nearby hotel, and he, too, was sentenced to 18 years in prison. ...