Blowback-arrests off the Jan 6 insurrection/riot never ends even with an attempted love match:
“Robert Chapman” of Carmel, New York was texting with his potential date on Bumble as he stormed the Capitol.
He said: “I did storm the Capitol and made it all the way to Statuary Hall”.
She said: "We are not a match" and turned him in. pic.twitter.com/90A17Or54c
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) April 23, 2021
Details via CNN this afternoon:
The Justice Department has charged a Capitol rioter who was turned in by someone he matched with on the dating app Bumble, after he bragged about his exploits on January 6.
According to court documents, one week after the attack, Robert Chapman of New York told one of his Bumble matches that “I did storm the Capitol” and said that he “made it all the way into Statuary Hall.”
He also claimed that he was interviewed by members of the media.The other Bumble user replied, “we are not a match.”
Prosecutors said the user then quickly reached out to the FBI and provided screenshots of the conversation.
Investigators said in court filings that they corroborated Chapman’s claims by comparing his Bumble profile picture to body camera footage from police officers who were inside the Capitol.
Chapman was charged with four misdemeanors, including disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. He hasn’t entered a plea and his lawyer didn’t respond to a request for comment on the charges.
According to screenshots in court filings, Chapman also posted to Facebook before the January 6 insurrection that he was traveling to the “District of Criminality,” referring to Washington, DC.
And on the day of the attack, he allegedly posted, “I’M F—IN INSIDE THE CRAPITOL.”
A sizable chunk of the insurrectionists/rioters charged so far are really dumb-asses. In a shitload of cases, DOJ prosecutors have scanned piles of posts on Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Parler, Snapchat, and other sites, where dim-bulbs boasted of their exploits of storming the Capitol building, during and after the event.
A major legal campaign:
The Justice Department expects to charge at least 100 more people for taking part in the Capitol insurrection — that means more than 500 in total — signaling prosecutors are far from finished with their investigation.https://t.co/mGwN7SsCsR
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) April 23, 2021
Some background per Reuters yesterday:
The U.S. Justice Department expects to charge at least 100 more people for taking part in the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol, signaling prosecutors are far from finished investigating an attack that a judge on Thursday called an act of terrorism.
“Over 400 individuals have been charged in connection with the Capitol attack,” federal prosecutors said in a court filing on Thursday.
“The investigation continues and the government expects that at least one hundred additional individuals will be charged.”The Justice Department made the disclosure in a set of similar court filings asking judges to postpone deadlines in pending prosecutions.
“The investigation and prosecution of the Capitol attack will likely be one of the largest in American history, both in terms of the number of defendants prosecuted and the nature and volume of the evidence,” the court filings stated.
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A magistrate judge in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia described the attack as an act of terrorism during a court hearing for Charles Donohue, a leader of the Proud Boys extremist right-wing group.“The acts alleged in the indictment would meet, in my view, the statutory definition of a federal crime of terrorism,” U.S. Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey said, adding that the attack “struck at the very heart of our democracy.”
And from the ass-face of the inciter-in-chief:
"It was zero threat, right from the start, it was zero threat" — Trump on the January 6 insurrection that left 5 dead, including a police officer pic.twitter.com/6YBho1bywM
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 26, 2021
“You know, they had great relationships. A lot of the people were waved in and then they walked in and they walked out … When I look at antifa and what they did to Washington, and what they did to other locations, and the destruction, and frankly the killing and the beating up of people, and nothing happens to them whatsoever? Why aren’t they going after antifa? … They wave American flags … In many cases, they are waving the American flag, and they love our country.”
(Illustration is of a New York state high-school student exhibit: ‘The piece was displayed during student-driven art show at Shenendehowa High School. It consisted of at least 12 identical black-and-white pictures of Donald Trump. There was also a sign above the pictures that read, “Draw on Me.” Using markers from the art classroom, some students opted to scribble critical messages and profanities on the pictures‘ — and found here).