Posted on 01/14/2021 8:52:50 PM PST by conservative98
A retired US Air Force lieutenant colonel photographed carrying zip-tie handcuffs inside the Capitol during last week’s riot planned to take hostages, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
In wielding the restraints, Larry Brock “means to take hostages. He means to kidnap, restrain, perhaps try, perhaps execute members of the U.S. government,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Weimer.
Weimer, who at Thursday’s hearing argued Brock should be detained, did not elaborate on his allegations.
The prosecutor read a social media post from Brock the day of the siege, in which he says, “Patriots on the Capitol. Patriots storming. Men with guns need to shoot their way in.”
Brock — a 53-year-old father of three — was arrested Sunday. He’s been charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
He had previously told The New Yorker magazine that he found the zip-tie handcuffs on the floor and intended to turn them over to the police.
Brock’s lawyer, Brook Antonio II, asked an FBI agent testifying Thursday whether it was possible his client picked up the cuffs, like he said. The agent acknowledged the possibility.
“It’s all talk. It’s all speculation and conjecture,” Antonio said of the allegations against Brock.
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“Patriots on the Capitol. Patriots storming. Men with guns need to shoot their way in.”
Nuance may not be his strong suit.
The social media were pushing the photo of the guy with the ties since day 1. Saying he was going to take hostages.
How’d they have this so fast?
It’s a pre-planned narrative.
I doubt it. The legacy media’s darling blm scumbag, John Sullivan, is one of the people that were up to no good.
In a way it is sad that our veterans got up in this. It is almost like we failed them.
Take Ashli Babbit for example. It is a tragedy. I have respect for our veterans and wonder how to address this type of action in the future.
So, in memory of a veteran who served our country, please let me know where to send flowers. I have searched for her obituary, funeral arrangements, and the life, but have found nothing. Thank you.
AOC is going to go nuts with this one. She’s going to regale us with tales of her near-capture and execution.
How many of the so-called rioters were armed with guns?
If only.
I suppose all the rest of this guy’s social media has been archived by the Feds and scrubbed from public view.
That social media post alone will probably mean a federal conviction. Libtard chatter out there suggests that they may try to go after the pensions of any retired veterans or cops at Stop the Steal.
So where was this guy’s gun? How was he going to get his hostages into those restraints?
Or he might have been looking to zip tie any Antifa infiltrators he found trying to stir up trouble. The problem with the FBI is how politically-slanted it has become. It ginned up a special prosecution aimed at persecuting Trump on the basis of what it knew was false information. That not one of the people involved has been stripped of his pension, let alone indicted by a Federal prosecutor, speaks to the pervasiveness of partisan corruption in the DOJ.
I merely noted what my default settings said.
Got nothing to do with me.
I've had my eye on you for some time now, gubberment boi.
You're going to give me a wooden shampoo too?
Nothing about kidnapping.
I myself don't know what that term means.
Thanks for answering my question. You're not looking for three hots and a cot, you're just really stupid. Hopefully that will work out well for your public defender.
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