Posted on 10/15/2021 10:27:50 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
A Capitol Police officer is facing two counts of obstruction of justice for allegedly trying to help someone avoid being prosecuted for the Jan. 6 riot by telling them to change Facebook posts to indicate they were not in the Capitol at the time of the riot.
The Capitol Police officer, Michael Angelo Riley, had been with the department for more than 25 years when he was indicted for allegedly helping someone, referred to as “Person 1” in court documents obtained by Law & Crime.
The court documents allege that Person 1 had accepted a friend request from the Capitol Police officer despite the fact that they did not know each other. Person 1 had posed commentary and footage that indicated Person 1 was inside the Capitol during Jan. 6.
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From the article and a news report I saw, the officer merely friended someone on Fascist Book and told them to take down posts saying they entered the capitol. They are saying he caused evidence to be destroyed. They must weed out all the right and publicly hang them.
Sounds more like giving him the heads up on how to escape being charged.
Stay out of DC
The obstruction charge is complete overreach. He merely told the guy what to do, but didn’t do it himself. Also a possible 1st Amendment violation because you are free to give advice to someone to do something illegal if they ask, as long as you do not do it yourself.
And the government employees think that the Democrats love them.
Here’s some Democrat love for you!
Hahahahahahahahaha!
Enjoy it.
my guess is that the property owners in Minneapolis, Kenosha, Louisville, Portland, Seattle, Baltimore and several other cities wish that the “Mostly Peaceful” protests they experienced had been as bad as the Jan 6th “insurrection uprising” and “riot” was at the Capitol Building in Washington DC...
Capitol Police officers might have had an easier time on 1/6 if certain Nimrods on Capitol Hill had followed up on President Trump’s request for more backup.
> The obstruction charge is complete overreach.
Maybe so. If, as a Capitol police officer, he had inside information into the nature of the investigations, then providing that information someone under investigation does seem pretty sketchy. I have to imagine that LEOs are not at liberty to provide information to suspects about the nature of ongoing investigations. In any case, at the very least he should be fired.
Sounds more like giving him the heads up on how to escape being charged.
Fredo Cuomo was taped by Michael Cohen, coaching him on how to answer questions about Trump and Stormy Daniels on his TV show, and Fredo also admitted coaching his brother over his sexual harassment charges.
Obstruction of justice by posting a comment online? That’s a real stretch, especially since he was probably off-duty, and used his own personal device when he wrote it.
My guess is it's mainly another "the process is the punishment" case with a goal to force him to resign or give an excuse to fire him.
So then “person 1” is an FBI informant?
> I think he would have to have conveyed information about the investigation not known outside of it.
No, I’m pretty certain that’s not the way it works. That is certainly not the way it works for classified info — a security clearance holder is not allowed to confirm (or deny) classified info that may be known (or at least suspected) from other non-classified sources (e.g. news stories, etc.) I’m pretty certain the same principle applies in this context.
Stay in lock step or be stepped on...
Communist rule # 13.a, paragraph 6...
If I did something and found out later it may have been a crime and there was an investigation and I call my buddy officer Joe and ask him how to cover it up and he says, "do x and y," then the only question is whether saying that constitutes obstruction or conspiracy to obstruct.
If this was an investigation by officer Joe's department then there's an issue with departmental rules about discussing a case, but absent specific laws, there's no crime unless the officer were bribed. Lots of big shot police chiefs go on camera and reveal details about an investigation in ways that I'm sure make the detectives involved cringe, but those aren't crimes.
It’s sad that their master plan to stop protests from free thinking American’s worked so well. Stop a riot by shooting the first on through a window. Lock em up and throw away the keys. Stay out of DC. Their plan is working.
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