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.
You can throw bricks down on Trump caravans from an overpass, though, and beat up old men.
OMG!!! NOW PRAYING IS A CRIME!!!! WE ARE OVER!
The founding fathers would have been reloading or hanging these bastards.
The founding fathers would have been reloading or hanging these bastards.
Specifically the politicians, and Antifa.
There, Griffin used a bullhorn to lead the group in prayer, the document states. >>>>>>>>>>>
The stupid glorious bastard!
If he had recited the Muslim Hadith, they never would have bothered him.
But I do love his style.
True, and what Nancy did by telling the Capitol police to let them all in, because she is the head dude of the House, should be no surprise.
I think you are partially right.
I fully expect that anyone who thinks the election was stolen (or even tainted) and says so will find at the least their livelihood threatened if not being investigated for sedation; if one works for any public agency and states such I’m pretty sure their employment will be at an end.
Most Antifas are atheists. And the rioters were all Antifas.
Aide: "Mr.President I forgot what a printed phone book looks like. So thick and filled with fine print."
President Trump: "That's not a phone book. It's volume one of my list of pardons."
Leading in prayer?
The nerve of some people./s
It appears the article has him saying some alarming things on his web site, but praying was not a crime, and talking sh!t on a web site does not constitute conspiracy to commit a crime without an overt act. The only blood that ran out of the building on 6 January was from the two female victims of the Capitol Police, one shot dead, the other beaten to death.
“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.”
Do not forget that all of these trials will be in front of DC juries.
Dangerous-looking bunch, obviously racist, because they didn’t stab the man holding the stars and bars to death with their flags, and they’re all smiling about it. Next they’ll do a cavalry charge against the Capitol Police, all the way from South Dakota (I’m not putting a sarc tab. Nyahnyahnyahnyaaahnyah).
And, since the left and Dems denied due process to Judge Kavanaugh, and denied Pres. Trump due process, you can be sure they’ll deny due process to everyone whenever it suits them.
have they arrested any of the (antifa-looking) people in that one video where they are in a room discussing the floorplan and “taking this building”?
Nah, didn’t think so.
First time in Years God has been in the halls of Satan.
They deserve our financial support, Their page reference up thread sets out their link.
The manure will hit the fan when they try to deprogram these Cowboys and Cowgirls.
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