Posted on 01/08/2021 10:28:41 PM PST by ransomnote
Richard Barnett, 60, of Gravette, Arkansas was arrested today in Bentonville, Arkansas on multiple criminal charges related to his alleged unlawful activities earlier this week at the U.S. Capitol Building where he was photographed with his feet up on a desk in the Speaker of the House of Representatives’ office.
Barnett is scheduled to make his initial appearance in federal court on Tuesday. He will ultimately be extradited to Washington, D.C.
“The shocking images of Mr. Barnett with his boots up on a desk in the Speaker of the House’s office on Wednesday was repulsive,” said Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General of the United States. “Those who are proven to have committed criminal acts during the storming of the Capitol will face justice.”
According to court documents, U.S. Capitol Police learned that an individual had entered the restricted office area of the Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi and was photographed with his feet propped up on furniture. Those photos were circulated on numerous news media platforms which identified the individual as Barnett. A search of law enforcement databases confirmed that the individual in the news photographs did in fact appear to be Barnett.
“This case is just one in a number that demonstrate the brazen acts that were committed at the Capitol on Wednesday,” said Michael Sherwin, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia. “My Office is committed to prosecuting all individuals who participated in these abhorrent acts to the fullest extent of the law.”
“The U.S. Capitol is one of the most iconic buildings in our country and a symbol of the Constitution and people we have sworn to protect, and its destruction will not be tolerated,” said Steven M. D’Antuono, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI Washington Field Office. “This arrest demonstrates to all individuals involved in January 6 incursion into the U.S. Capitol that the FBI will find you and hold you accountable for your crimes, no matter your location. We thank the FBI Little Rock Field Office for their quick assistance in bringing this perpetrator to justice.”
Barnett is charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds; and theft of public money, property, or records. If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of one year in prison. Actual sentences for federal crimes are typically less than the maximum penalties. A federal district court judge will determine any sentence after taking into account the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.
This case is being investigated by the U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI’s Washington Field Office, with the assistance of the Justice Department’s National Security Division and the FBI’s Little Rock Field Office.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Nicole McClain of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia is prosecuting the case.
A criminal complaint is merely an accusation. The defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
OMG... What a POS!
Ewwwwww!!!
See 20 and 21. Obama = Disrespectful POS
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BTW, what is Congress's approval rating, right now?
Pelosi had 150 protestors arrested to get them out of her office, although none were charged.
But this DOJ Swampfraud works up a whole pile of phony indignation “ these despicable acts of desecration etc. etc.”
Barnett should have taken his boots/shoes off before he put his feet on Pelosi’s desk. Now that is a death penalty offense in DC if there ever was one. (Ignore the hundreds of murders a year in DC and no death penalty. If anyone should be charged with anything, it is the totally incompetent Mayor Muriel Bowwow Bowser (no, not related to the R&R announcer, that I know of. He has an honest job).
Pelosi’s desk is like that of Joe Stalin’s head of the KGB, torturer/murderer Lavrentia Beria where he signs death warrants for people before their trial. She signs death warrants for freedom in the US just for the joy of the power it gives her.
Horrors! You'd think he'd be part of mob that held six city blocks of a major city and police precinct hostage. But, if you do that and are left-wing protester, you receive no punishment whatsoever and get your own Wiki page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raz_Simone
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Trespass is a crime. SO definitely chargeable.
Unauthorized access (probably signs on doors and such).
What do anarchists care about that ?
WAIT. Aren’t they supposed to have Security/DHS stations searching for weapons at all ingress to a building like this?? Manned and Controlled? AND ALL OTHER ACCESS being fully CONTROLLED?? ( WE have to go through more every time we board a plane ... )
WHO OPENED THE DOORS FOR THESE CRANKS ?????
Incredible negligence OR all was facilitated/contrived purposefully
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21 wasn't for real. At least I don't think so. Lol!
In fact, the communist-revolutionary, domestic terrorist, Weather Underground openly bragged about bombing the US Capitol AND the Pentagon!
"VVAW-supported demonstration during the Washington Spring Offensive,
April - May 1971. Notice the North Vietnamese and VietCong flags."
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In 1954, a group of Puerto Rican [Marxist] separatists got onto the House floor and opened fire with handguns. Five members of the House were wounded in the attack, including Rep. Alvin Bentley (Mich.). He's in the photo below, being carried out by pages.
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im sure chrissy remembers buses had to parked around the white house to stop em....
“The shocking images of Mr. Barnett with his boots up on a desk in the Speaker of the House’s office on Wednesday was repulsive,” said Jeffrey A. Rosen, Acting Attorney General of the United States. “Those who are proven to have committed criminal acts during the storming of the Capitol will face justice.”
It was shocking and repulsive. This guy should be fined $1.
However, the current occupant if the speaker of the house seat is justifies bringing back the Salem witch trials.
Thanks for posting those images. I had no idea how much damage 0bama’s friend’s bomb did in the halls of congress.
Unless there is a specific law that prohibits people from entering the Capitol building, entering offices, and putting feet up on desks, he technically did nothing wrong.
Pelosi is just pi$$ed that she was so disrespected.
We’ll find out when the charges are brought and either dropped or he’s thrown in jail by a kangaroo court.
Trump could pardon him.
The boots on the desk part maybe earned a pardon.
“Pelosi is just pi$$ed that she was so disrespected.”
Most of the Senators were/are. It was THEIR place that got violated. Apartment dwellers trapped in the CHAZ (Seattle), the Red House Zone (Portland), or people living between burned out businesses in Minneapolis, St. Louis, etc. - they were barely mentioned when they were occupied for weeks by the “peaceful protests”.
But swarming into the Capital building for an afternoon(while minding the velvet ropes protecting the wonderful murals and statues) becomes an insurrection.
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