Posted on 12/10/2021 9:04:58 PM PST by 11th_VA
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A California man charged with assaulting police in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and using a metal barricade as a battering ram has fled the United States and is believed to have taken refuge in Belarus, federal prosecutors said on Friday.
Evan Neumann, 49, was indicted on Friday on 14 criminal counts stemming from the deadly Capitol siege by supporters of then-President Donald Trump, expanding on charges originally contained in a criminal complaint filed against Neumann in March.
Neumann, of Mill Valley, California, near San Francisco, was seen in video footage donning a gas mask while standing near police in front of barricades set up at the base of the West Front of the Capitol Building, prosecutors said in a statement.
According to documents filed in the case, Neumann later removes his gas mask and shouts at the police, "I'm willing to die, are you?" before he physically assaults several officers and rushes into them using a barricade as a battering ram.
Neumann, who has yet to make a court appearance in the case, fled from the United States on Feb. 16 and "is currently believed to be in Belarus," the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia said…
According to an account published by news outlet the Daily Beast, Neumann was featured last month in a Belarusian state television special titled "Goodbye, America," recounting his journey to the former Soviet republic and its capital, Minsk.
He said on the program that he was seeking political asylum in Belarus because the United States, in his opinion, is no longer a country of law and order, the Daily Beast reported.
Neumann is one of more than 220 individuals charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
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Is t Posobiec’s wife from Belarus? Da womenz from there are cuuute
So is he a Patriot, or one of the Antifa/BLM instigators pretending to be MAGA?
Probably the former, or else he would not have had to flee from our inJustice Department.
He would be in a Manhattan penthouse if he was antifa, not Minsk.
Going Belarus is the new thing.
[[A California man charged with assaulting police in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol and using a metal barricade as a battering ram has fled the United States and is believed to have taken refuge in Belarus,]]
But blm and antifa walk the streets freely without fear of arrest after burning buildings with people inside, assaulting police, destroying city blocks, etc-
if he were antifa- the authorities wouldn’t be after him
“...deadly Capitol siege...” cracks me up that they are still pedaling the same lies. Pathetic.
So is he a Patriot, or one of the Antifa/BLM instigators pretending to be MAGA?
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Funny... that’s sort of what I was wondering. When did FIB open up an office in Belarus?
The Russians have accused the uUS specifically the CIA, of causing civil unrest in Belarus to try to overthrow Lukashenko. Will this be used as a tool to cool things down by handing him over? Or used to draw us in by claiming Russian involvement on J6?
This must be why government figures are threatening to nuke Russia.
Another lie. Most of those are charged with simple trespassing or interfering with a congressional hearing.
Orthodox Christian Theocracy.
Poofters not welcome.
Or “unlawful parading”
I can’t really blame him.
The instigators don’t fear prosecution.
Good riddance.
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