Posted on 01/17/2021 6:29:02 PM PST by ATOMIC_PUNK
A New Mexico county official was arrested Sunday after federal authorities said he entered a restricted section of the U.S. Capitol during the deadly pro-Trump incursion and led rioters in prayer.
Couy Griffin, an Otero County commissioner and founder of Cowboys for Trump, was arrested in Washington. D.C., and faces a single charge of knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority, a federal criminal complaint said.
In an affidavit, a Metropolitan Police detective said a Cowboys for Trump videographer told authorities that after he and Griffin saw the group push past security barriers, they scaled the Capitol building’s wall before making their way to an outside deck.
There, Griffin used a bullhorn to lead the group in prayer, the document states.
In a video cited by the affidavit, Griffin also told the crowd that it was a “great day for America” and that “people are showing that they’ve had enough.”
“People are ready for fair and legal elections, or this what you’re going to get,” he said, according to the affidavit.
In a Facebook post on the Cowboys for Trump page, Griffin later said he planned to return to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20 for a possible “2nd Amendment rally” that would include “blood running out of that building,” the affidavit says.
At a Jan. 14 Otero County meeting, Griffin told other officials that he planned on taking a rifle and a revolver when he returned to Washington, according to the affidavit.
free exercise thereof ...
we're not talking about jazzercise here. literally a 1st Amendment violation.
Has ANYONE in congress even SEEN the Constitution or Bill of Rights, besides on a dart board?
In a non-hysterical court, being in the chamber without doing anything bad or disruptive would be a difficult prosecution for being in a restricted area.
Couy has a tendency to run his mouth without thinking things through for a while. He isn’t the hottest chile in the batch.
They are finding people, looking to see if they are on the left or on the right, and arresting/”wanted poster-ing” the ones on the right.
When will Nancy be arrested for Insurrection ?
Wednesday.
RE: Arrested praying?
That wasn’t the charge. The charge was knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority.
>>The founding fathers would have been appalled.
They would be appalled that Barack Obama, friend to Bill Ayers (terrorists and bomber of the Pentagon) became President of the United States and instituted such traitors into our government. A Communist as head of the CIA and as head of the FBI. The plot to take down the President Trump before he even took office.
>>or did Nancy just wave away their concern for the rule that no one was supposed to get in without a time-stamped ticket requested by each person’s congressman 2 to 3 months in advance?
When Boooosh was President the Democrats in Congress were repeaedly giving access passes to members of Code Pink who interrupted hearings and attacked members of the Bush administration.
According to Chris Plante, super radio talkshow host with WMAL in DC, the bus stops in DC have sophisticated electronic sign boards. In addition to telling you when the next bus is coming, they are now scrolling the faces of people who entered the capitol building and then giving the telephone number to call the FBI. Somehow I don’t recall this for the rioters last summer.
I’ve watched that guy for over a year. I do not know what he did, but I doubt it was very serious.
A Communist Purge Is Underway & Nothing Is Being Done About It!
HELLO?????
Still waiting to hear about the arrest of the female CNN reporter.
Back when I was a teen I went on a DC tour got separated from the group and almost ended up on the floor of the Senate.
A nice young man asked me if I was lost and I said I was just lookin around.
I am sure now I would be arrested.
He meant well, but he played stupid games and won a prize.
Stand down, weak ass. The last thing we need are the likes of you on our side.
Is this from the Onion or Babylon Bee?
#29 re the sign boards scrolling the faces of people who entered the capitol building and the FBI number so that they can be identified. “”Somehow I don’t recall this for the rioters last summer”. AND YOU WON’T. Democrats never give up their communist/black extremists supporters. NEVER!
“...led rioters in prayer”
Do these people even know how ridiculous they sound?
They should have stuck to rioting. Don’t they know that prayer spreads covid?
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