In his 90-minute visit to the bar, Kyle Rittenhouse, 18, was seen consuming alcohol while being serenaded by a group of adult men who sang the Proud Boys’ anthem, according to the motion.

Tortured_Genius wrote:
You know your political and legal systems are fucked right?

A DC police officer said it was 'absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection' after a video of him trapped against a door by a pro-Trump mob went viral


A Washington DC police officer who was seen a viral video being crushed in a doorway by a pro-Trump mob during the siege on the Capitol last week said it was his pleasure to "crush a white nationalist insurrection."

"If it wasn't my job I would have done that for free. It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection," Daniel Hodges told NBC. "I'm glad I was in a position to be able to help. We'll do it as many times as it takes."

"We were battling, you know, tooth and nail for our lives," he said. "We held the line there in that doorway, and I guess I got pinned through the small back-and-forth we had fighting for, you know, every inch. And I had my arms pinned at that point, I wasn't able to defend myself."

In a now-viral video that was shared on social media, a bloodied Hodges is seen screaming for help as he is being crushed against a metal door frame inside the Capitol building.

Hodges said one rioter ripped off his gas mask and beat him with his own baton, while another tried to gouge his eye.

"At that point, I was also, you know, sucking in OC and CS gas, so I was pretty disabled at that point," he said. "I thought, you know, this might be it. I might die and there's nothing I can do to defend myself at this point. So I just started screaming at the top of my lungs for them to give me a way out, get me a line of retreat. Thankfully someone was able to do that and I was able to extricate myself."

Tortured_Genius wrote:
It is now clear that this was a very real coup attempt - prepared for by people with "access" (including legislators).

SafeAsMilk wrote:I haven't seen that number, but because of how open these morons were to letting themselves be found, this might be one of the only situations where we can accurately determine the makeup of a group like this.

Tortured_Genius wrote:Unfortunately I can't locate the report, but I was reading that something like 20% of the rioters arrested are ex-military and are looking at the full 20 years for insurrection in direct contravention of their military oaths.

Agi Hammerthief wrote:

The_Metatron wrote:
I'm good with the sentence for motherfuckers who should fucking know better, though.

is there any sort of political education in the military?

we got a crash course in ‚laws you need to know‘ in the German Airforce.

The_Metatron wrote:

Tortured_Genius wrote:Unfortunately I can't locate the report, but I was reading that something like 20% of the rioters arrested are ex-military and are looking at the full 20 years for insurrection in direct contravention of their military oaths.

I wouldn't buy that. The oath of enlistment isn't even binding under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. There is no punitive article for violating it. Further, it would cease to have any weight at all once the member is discharged.

I'm good with the sentence for motherfuckers who should fucking know better, though.

This Jan. 6, 2021 photo made available by the United States Capitol Police in a complaint and arrest warrant shows Rocky Mount, Virginia,Police Department Sgt. Thomas "T.J." Robertson and officer Jacob Fracker in the Capitol.