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Documentarian who testified about Jan. 6 says crew was aware they had filmed ‘multiple crimes’
The Hill ^ | 06/12/22 11:08 AM ET | BY BRAD DRESS -

Posted on 06/12/2022 9:21:42 PM PDT by RandFan

The documentary filmmaker who testified last week about the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol said on Sunday that he and his crew were aware they had filmed “multiple crimes” when they followed the far-right militia Proud Boys during the rioting for a documentary about division in America.

Nick Quested told NBC’s “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd that he saw crimes “on the steps of the Capitol” and “inside the Capitol.”

After filming the events of Jan. 6, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn certification of the 2020 election, Quested decided to cooperate with law enforcement.

“So I called a friend of mine, who’s a U.S. attorney,” the filmmaker said on NBC. “And he referred me to the criminal department of the D.C. police, who then referred me to the FBI.”

Quested, who also filmed a secret meeting between Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes in a parking garage ahead of the Jan. 6 rioting, said he “instantaneously” realized they were filming dangerous material throughout the process.

“We thought it was just an optically bad thing to do when we were shooting it,” Quested said on Sunday.

Quested testified in front of the House panel investigating the Jan. 6 attempted insurrection last week. He also turned in evidence and video material to the Department of Justice and the select committee.

Both Tarrio and Rhodes have been charged with seditious conspiracy, a rarely used charge that accuses them of attempting to overthrow the U.S. government. Quested on Sunday said he has not spoken with Tarrio in person since February.

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what crimes?? 'Trespassing'?
1 posted on 06/12/2022 9:21:42 PM PDT by RandFan
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To: RandFan
what crimes?? 'Trespassing'?

WWW? (walking while white)

2 posted on 06/12/2022 9:28:49 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: RandFan

Does Space Cadet, Nick Quested and his Docu-Rangers have law degrees? Have they passed the bar?


3 posted on 06/12/2022 9:30:31 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump.)
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To: RandFan

Interesting. He has a friend, who just happens to be a US Attorney. Let me guess, would this be a Soros US attorney?


4 posted on 06/12/2022 9:36:19 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: RandFan

The murder of Ashli Babbitt?


5 posted on 06/12/2022 9:36:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: RandFan

Nick Quested... British like Christopher Steele.


6 posted on 06/12/2022 9:39:49 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Mark17

The Proud Boys leader is not white.


7 posted on 06/12/2022 9:39:57 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: RandFan

What if they had a revolution but nobody brought any guns?


8 posted on 06/12/2022 9:40:53 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: Williams

What is he, a white Hispanic? Many of them are walking while white, but not all. Even if he was black, the libtards would call him a black white supremacist.


9 posted on 06/12/2022 10:03:12 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: RandFan
Does the leftist author of this piece realize that this whole story could be turned 180 degrees by just changing a few words?

The documentary filmmaker who testified last week about the November 3, 2020 attack on the U.S. elections said on that he and his crew were aware they had filmed “multiple crimes” when they followed the ballot mules during the illegal drop-offs for a documentary about the stolen election in America.

Dinesh D'Souza told America that he saw crimes “at hundreds of ballot drop boxes” and “at Democratic operative headquarters.”


10 posted on 06/12/2022 10:04:48 PM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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What if they had a revolution but nobody brought any guns?

Exactly. No one in that group was in any position to "overthrow the government." Not even close.

These kangaroo court jesters should be asked, if the demonstrators that day intended to overthrow they government, or at least the election results, why didn't they? There was certainly no one substantially around to stop them.

11 posted on 06/12/2022 10:07:10 PM PDT by fwdude (Every time I see someone voluntarily masked in public, I know I'm looking at a vaccinated person.)
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To: RandFan

They will keep poking at us with a stick, thinking they will either intimidate us or stir up more behavior that they can use against us. But, like the boy who cried wolf once too often, they will cry “insurrection” once too often. They will poke somewhere that they ought not to poke. And the response is going to be quick, brutal, and unexpected. There is a ton of bricks sitting atop their house of cards. Sooner or later it is going to come crashing down on them.


12 posted on 06/12/2022 10:14:16 PM PDT by unlearner (Si vis pacem, para bellum. Let him who desires peace prepare for war.)
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antifa members were the breaching element when you look at the films and the cops literally let them in.


13 posted on 06/12/2022 10:24:31 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: RandFan

Quested has a company Goldcrest, which is a partner of Saboteur Media in NYC, which has produced a piece for HBO on anti-Putin girl group, PUSSY RIOT.

29 Sept 2020: Here & There with Dave Marsh: Nick Quested, Author
Blood On The Walls
Trump, faced with defeat in an upcoming election has nothing to sell but fear itself – in 2020 he’s pushing suburban fears of urban invaders, another way of saying White fears of Blacks, Latins and other peoples of color. He’s even invented a non-existent Antifa organization to strike fear in American hearts which once were successfully cajoled to cringe at the threat of Anarchists, Communists and “outside agitators” for civil rights...

Nick Quested has built one of the premiere documentary brands in the world, winning two Emmys and getting an Oscar nomination for his work...

Nick’s credits also include...Pussy Riot...
https://davemarash.com/2020/09/29/nick-quested-author-blood-on-the-walls/

Saboteur Media
Partners: Goldcrest London/ Nick Quested
https://www.saboteurmedia.com/work/blood-on-the-wall

sounds spooky to me.

as, of course, John Sullivan does - whose filming of Jan 6 went worldwide:

29 Aug 2020: Conservative Firing Line: BLM Leader Threatens To ‘Rip’ Trump From White House, Calls For Revolution (Video)
by Joe Newby
On Friday, an individual identified as John Sullivan, reportedly a Black Lives Matter leader from Salt Lake City, Utah appeared at a BLM rally in Washington, D.C., and was caught on video advocating revolution while threatening to “rip” the president from the White House.

“We gotta f**kin’ rip Trump outta that office right over there, f**kin’ pull him out that s**t,” he said in a speech heavily laden with f-bombs and other profanity.
“We ain’t about f**kin’ waitin’ for the next election, we about to go get that m*****f****r,” he added. “I’m about that s**t.” Somehow, we doubt the Secret Service would let that happen.

He then led the crowd in a chant of, “It’s time for revolution.”
Here’s video as posted to Twitter by Charlie Kirk (Warning: Graphic language)...
VIDEO 1M 18SEC
https://conservativefiringline.com/blm-leader-threatens-to-rip-trump-from-white-house-calls-for-revolution-video/

same goes for film-maker Jon Farina of Status Coup - a company belonging to ***Jordan Chariton who was with The Young Turks until 2017:

27 Jan 2021: Substack: Meet the Censored: Status Coup
by Matt Taibbi
On January 6th, Jon Farina, photographer and videographer for ***Jordan Chariton’s Status Coup outlet, captured horrifying images. At the Capitol, a pro-Trump mob tried to burst into the building, and a police officer who attempted to intercede was caught in a door. He cried out in pain, but the crowd was indifferent, chanting, “Heave, ho!” as they tried to break in. Farina, in the middle of the physical mayhem as photojournalists often are, caught the scene up close while 30,000 people watched the live feed.

Farina’s footage rocketed around the world, and major press outlets celebrated his work as an example of hard-hitting reporting. CNN did a laudatory story about the freelance photojournalist, with Pamela Brown asking Farina to “bring us inside the mayhem.” Other outlets like USA Today quoted his recollections of that day, and the likes of Steven Colbert on CBS, as well as ABC News, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, the New York Post, the Daily Mail, and others used it as fodder for outraged coverage of the riot...

Well-known for covering labor issues, homelessness, and especially the Flint water crisis, Status Coup had been growing, in large part because of live stream content...
https://taibbi.substack.com/p/meet-the-censored-status-coup?s=r

Status Coup: UNBELIEVABLE Footage | Trump Supporters Battle Cops Inside the Capitol, CRUSHING Bleeding Cop
Independent photojournalist Jon Farina (https://twitter.com/JonFarinaPhoto) shot this INCREDIBLE footage from January 6th, 2020 when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. SUPPORT Status Coup’s IN-THE-FIELD reporting for as low as $5 bucks a month...
https://statuscoup.com/unbelievable-footage-trump-supporters-battle-cops-inside-the-capitol-crushing-bleeding-cop/

funny how it was all leftists documenting Jan 6!


14 posted on 06/12/2022 10:50:52 PM PDT by MAGAthon (;)
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To: kvanbrunt2

Those ANTIFA dudes were so on their game.
Kevlar. Walkie-talkies. Zip ties. Bear spray. Driving instead of by planes due to the weapons. Comms via Telegram.
Shin guards. Stack teams. Back up teams (”QRFs”) back in their
Northern Virginia hotels with the weapons at the ready for 7 January if it escalated.
Bad dudes. Liberal scumbags.


15 posted on 06/12/2022 11:52:57 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (Old Ronald Reagan is about ready to lay down some firewood and go give some people a real lickin)
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To: Mark17; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

“What is he, a white Hispanic? Many of them are walking while white, but not all. Even if he was black, the libtards would call him a black white supremacist.”

He’s half black and half Hispanic (Cuban). So therefore definitely must be a white supremacist.


16 posted on 06/13/2022 1:22:42 AM PDT by flaglady47 (Donald J.Trump, President in 2024 - DeSantis for VP (or Senior Advisor))
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To: AmericanInTokyo; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

The January 6 Committee has but one goal, to indict Prez Donald J. Trump with incitement to riot and thus hopefully prevent him from running for Prez in 2024. And they will go ahead and charge him shortly, without a doubt. The two impeachments didn’t do it, but this third new approach to an impeachment by indictment they hope is the charm.


17 posted on 06/13/2022 1:27:12 AM PDT by flaglady47 (Donald J.Trump, President in 2024 - DeSantis for VP (or Senior Advisor))
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He’s half black and half Hispanic (Cuban). So therefore definitely must be a white supremacist.

I have no doubt you are right. 🤗

18 posted on 06/13/2022 1:28:09 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: RandFan

The documentary filmmaker, another left label to include on the list of expert, unknown sources, reliable sources, scientists etc.............


19 posted on 06/13/2022 3:37:52 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: RandFan

ANTIFA did commit crimes! And the FBI INSTIGATORS should be charged!


20 posted on 06/13/2022 4:01:28 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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