Posted on 01/15/2021 10:36:56 AM PST by blueplum
A retired Air Force veteran who was photographed carrying zip-tie handcuffs while storming the U.S. Capitol building earlier this month has been freed from jail.
The rioter—retired Lt. Col. Larry Rendall Brock Jr.—was arrested on Sunday in Texas after being photographed on the Senate floor during the siege...
...Magistrate Judge Jeffrey L. Cureton said he would release the former lieutenant colonel, 53, to home confinement. Brock was ordered to surrender any firearms and the judge said he would have limited internet access under his confinement.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
I don't really know who the 3 percenters are, but I can say with confidence that the Oath Keepers are not, in any way, shape or form, 'anti-government'
I am reminded of a famous quip to the effect: “Every word uttered by Newsweek is a lie, including “the” and “a”.”
Were these the old-fashion kind of wire twists used on loaves of sliced bread in the last century, or high-capacity assault zip ties?
Regards,
Sawed-off zip ties. Very dangerous.
they’re the cop zip ties. According to a previous statement by Brock, he found them laying on the ground and was intending to give them to a cop. When he didn’t see a cop anywhere, he pocketed them.
I’ll say again... in the current climate, anyone who entered those baracades and you are not BLM or Antifa, were stupid individuals... STUPID!!! would be a whole lot better if all who went in could be tied to the left...
Well, I was wondering what possible peaceful explanation a person dressed like a commando or anarchist could come up with to justify carrying those around, since they’re not good for anything but restraining people. It didn’t make sense for a rioter to openly wave zip ties around like a bouquet of roses and advertise his intentions.
That is a plausible explanation, hope it is true.
California Policy Center
Jan 15, 2021
The attack on free expression:
Just as we warned last week, union-backed politicians in California and across the country are exploiting the Capitol riots to try to quash free speech. This week, former union leader, and current California Democratic Party chair, Rusty Hicks repeatedly called the (lower-case “d”) democratic effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom “a coup.”
He claimed, “This recall effort, which really ought to be called the California coup, is led by right-wing conspiracy theorists, white nationalists, anti-vaxxers, and groups who encourage violence on our democratic institutions.”
Social media has recently purged the accounts of countless conservatives. Google and Apple banned Parler from their app stores, then Amazon pulled its hosting, banished it from the internet altogether. The moves have been widely celebrated by the mainstream media, which, ironically, seem to be among today’s worst defenders of free speech.
This week, a Twitter employee leaked audio of CEO Jack Dorsey saying this clampdown is only the beginning. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested creating a federal commission (a Ministry of Truth?) to “rein in our media environment so that you can’t just spew disinformation and misinformation.”
A new legislative effort in California seeks to create Patriot Act-style agencies, ostensibly to root out right-wing extremism. But government grows—that’s an iron law of political science–and Californians rightly wonder how long before such laws will target people like us, men and women who reasonably dissent in the face of policy failures.
For years, progressives have been trying to quash opposition by suggesting that conservatives are “racist.” Now they’re leveling up by calling conservatives “dangerous” and “extremist” to shut down debate — in some cases literally. Doing so allows them to Zamboni the ice to more easily slide their agenda forward.
The clampdown: On the latest episode of National Review’s RadioFree California, CPC President Will Swaim and board member David Bahnsen consider California reactions to the pro-Trump mayhem at the U.S. Capitol, including Trump-free Facebook and Twitter, the electronic shutdown of a nonpartisan policy conference in Sacramento, new legislation to recreate a California Patriot Act, and the California Democratic Party’s attempt to label the Recall Newsom campaign a “California coup.”
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgxwKkRPFPzQfJKwVrKsHvqzbtPdH
Are zip ties now under ATF jurisdiction and need to be registered?
If that's true, then it would be simple to match them, to the ones that the police use. In the confrontations that occurred, it would be quite possible for a package of zip ties to fall out of a cop's pocket, be pulled out, or dropped unnoticed when putting them back in a pocket or vest pouch. If they match, and they try to still claim he brought them from home, the question should be, how did he know the exact type of zip ties the police use, so he could use the excuse that he found them, if he was arrested with them on him.
Burning, looting and murder = peaceful protests.
Breaching the capitol building = riots.
LTCZT. License ti carry zip tie in a zip tie free area.
Stealing a Presidential Election = NOT Incitement.
Telling People how a Presidential Election was stolen = Incitement.
They were/are Zip hand cuffs common issue to LEO’s in crowd control situations.
As an officer can not carry enough standard handcuffs to handle large amounts of people.
Plus standard cuffs are expensive, there is a good chance of losing them. After the person cuffed is taken away.
If you look at the picture they are not straight but are looped at each end.
Flexi-cuffs usually have a wire running through them which makes it far more difficult to cut through or pop off, unlike zip-ties which are generally just plastic except for the tiny metal blade inside the head that locks them.
Flexicuffs intended for LE use are significantly more expensive than simple zip ties, and I believe are marked with a lot # which would make it relatively easy to confirm/deny if they were sold to an agency active at the capital on 1/6.
Yeah, we used them in the prison system. We also used cuffs, but only we Sergeants carried them, and only had one set issued to us each shift. Once we put them on someone, and they were taken to the box, if we needed to cuff anyone else before we got our cuffs back, we had to use flex-cuffs. The fact that the guy in the picture is walking around with them in his hands, makes me think he did find them laying on the floor. Why would he bring them out of a backpack or pocket, and carry them around, if there wasn't even anyone in the chamber to put them on? If that's what the Feds are claiming his plan was...it's pretty lame.
The article said five people were killed in the capital. This is simply not true. Five people died at the capital, but only one was killed. Her name was Ashli Babbit, and she was killed by a capital policeman who may have had some of the FlexCuffs on his person. Then again he may have dropped his in all the excitement of murdering an unarmed woman that posed absolutely no threat to him.
Guys, I hate to say it and I know I will be flamed,
but COME ON!
Yes, there were plenty of Antifa agitators there, but there were also RIGHT WINGERS (as much as I hate to say it), there were some right wingers who came for TROUBLE.
“I found them and I was going to give them to the police.”
Yeahhhh. Sure buddy.
Why can’t prosecutors believe he “found them on the floor”?
Wasn’t that a BELIEVED excuse used by the ILLEGAL ALIEN who shot Katie Steinle?
I recall José Inez García Zárate said he “found the gun, picked it up and it went off” striking and killing Steinle.
And that defense was lapped up by the idiots in CA.
Schizophrenic Alice in Wonderland on bad acid married to Joseph Goebbels
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