Posted on 12/10/2024 6:21:00 AM PST by rod5591
WASHINGTON — An Alabama man has been arrested for assaulting law enforcement and other charges related to his alleged conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.
Robert James Bonham, 44, of Wilsonville, Alabama, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with felony offenses of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder.
In addition to the felonies, Bonham is charged with several misdemeanor offenses, including entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, and act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings.
According to court documents, Bonham was identified in police body-worn camera footage on Jan. 6, 2021, armed with a flagpole bearing an American flag, at approximately 2:32 p.m. on the Capitol’s Upper West Plaza, where officers were retreating under pressure from advancing rioters. Moments later, at approximately 2:33 p.m., it is alleged that officers commanded Bonham and others to “move back!”
Instead of complying, Bonham allegedly raised the flagpole and thrust it forward toward an officer in an apparent attempt to stab him. Body-worn camera footage shows the flagpole making contact with the officer, constituting a forcible assault and obstructing the officer’s duties.
In the 46 months since Jan. 6, 2021, more than 1,561 individuals have been charged in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including more than 590 individuals charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement, a felony. The investigation remains ongoing.
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Plus the windchill was in the single digits that day.
On that basis I would pardon all J6 convicts based on the RATs’ precedent.
“ The FBI is claiming the Alabama man assaulted the Capital Police with a US Flag.”
If he really did , that’s wrong and he should have consequences .
But people that were simply in attendance at the rally DID NOTHING WRONG.
Even though the FBI trapped these people into being there in the first place violent actors should be punished. However, the government conspirators who conspired to entrap them should serve the same sentences.
When assault BY an "officer" is routinely vigorously investigated and prosecuted, I'll start to have some smidgen of interest in prosecuting assault ON an "officer".
How big was this flag pole and did it leave a mark? How was the body cam positioned that it showed actual contact. Was it the pole that made contact or did the officer step toward the pole to create the offense? Where was Nancy and why didn’t she call the NG. Who or which party or which 3 letter agency started the ruckus during escorted peaceful sight seeing tours? Lots of questions at this late date.
GASP! he was ARMED with a FLAGpole!!!
I would not believe the FBI if they swore on a stack of Bibles from here to the other side of the Milky Way.
And they play for keeps and stick together.
“Israel will just have to ... kill more Christians” - FR’s own “nitzy”
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