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FBI arrests Trump supporter who stormed Capitol while on bail on attempted murder charge
nbcnews.com ^ | February 8, 2022 | Ryan J. Reilly

Posted on 02/08/2022 1:38:21 PM PST by lowbridge

A Jan. 6 rioter who stormed the Capitol while he was out on bail on an attempted first-degree murder charge was arrested by the FBI on Tuesday, more than 10 months after he was first identified by online sleuths.

Matthew Jason Beddingfield, of North Carolina, faces felony charges of assaulting officers, impeding officers during a civil disorder and carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon on restricted Capitol grounds, as well as several misdemeanors, according to court records.

Beddingfield was first publicly identified in a HuffPost story in March after online sleuths investigating the Jan. 6 attack used facial recognition to find his mugshot and then confirmed his identification with the help of his father’s Facebook page.

Beddingfield traveled to Washington on Jan. 6 with his father, a fellow Donald Trump supporter who also believed the former president’s lies about a stolen election. The two had attended a November 2020 rally in Washington in support of Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss. Images that Beddingfield’s father posted of that rally showed his son wearing identical Nike sneakers and carrying the same pole attached to an American flag as he did on Jan. 6.

When he stormed the Capitol, Beddingfield was on bail on a first-degree attempted murder charge in connection with the December 2019 shooting of a 17-year-old in a Walmart parking lot, when Beddingfield was 19. He was initially held on $1 million bail, but he secured pretrial release when bail was lowered to $100,000. After he stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, Beddingfield pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in connection with the shooting. He was on probation in the shooting case when he was arrested Tuesday.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: 201912; beddingfield; capitol; mattbeddingfield; matthewbeddingfield; ryanjreilly
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1 posted on 02/08/2022 1:38:21 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Means well, hot tempered?


2 posted on 02/08/2022 1:40:39 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: lowbridge

His dangerous or deadly weapon was a copy of The Constitution.


3 posted on 02/08/2022 1:40:47 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: lowbridge

check his browser history- I don’t believe he is really a Trump supporter.

Not with that kind of record.


4 posted on 02/08/2022 1:40:57 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself)
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To: lowbridge
who also believed the former president’s lies about a stolen election

Now thats what I call good, objective reporting.

Statist media toads.

5 posted on 02/08/2022 1:43:10 PM PST by skeeter
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To: lowbridge

Propaganda.
Doesn’t sound like the typical profile of a Trump supporter.
Either way its NBC, not gonna believe anything they report.


6 posted on 02/08/2022 1:43:13 PM PST by fatman6502002 ((The Team The Team The Team - Bo Schembechler circa 1969))
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To: lowbridge
oh brother...online sleuths? It's ABC. I will move on...
7 posted on 02/08/2022 1:44:27 PM PST by hoe_cake
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To: hoe_cake

nbc...doesn’t matter.


8 posted on 02/08/2022 1:45:07 PM PST by hoe_cake
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To: Mr. K

You would be truly surprised at some of the people who supported and still supports Trump. I personally know of some life long democrats that live on the fringe of the law their whole lives that supported him.


9 posted on 02/08/2022 1:49:35 PM PST by eastforker (All in, I'm all Trump,what you got!)
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To: lowbridge

It took them 11 months to find this guy? Really on the ball, aren’t they.


10 posted on 02/08/2022 1:50:30 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team sco uts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy

Maybe they were hoping he’d reoffend, to make Trump supporters look worse.


11 posted on 02/08/2022 1:51:44 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: lowbridge

Reporter Ryan J. Reilly appears to be the FBI’s appointed shill at NBC:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4035855/posts

A Jan. 6 suspect died. Now the FBI has to prep for conspiracies.
NBC News ^ | Feb. 5, 2022, 3:30 AM CST | Ryan J. Reilly


12 posted on 02/08/2022 1:53:52 PM PST by Fedora
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Papa and son
13 posted on 02/08/2022 1:54:00 PM PST by deport
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To: lowbridge
...who also believed the former president’s lies about a stolen election.

Yes sir, good old AP with a straight news story where no particular spin one way or another.

14 posted on 02/08/2022 1:54:15 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: lowbridge

Compared to all of the Biden supporters who went around killing neighbors and random people on the streets, this is a big nothingburger.


15 posted on 02/08/2022 1:54:16 PM PST by plangent
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To: AndyTheBear

er NBC...


16 posted on 02/08/2022 1:54:49 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: lowbridge
$100k bail for FIRST DEGREE MURDER!

Probably $10k cash.

Was a time not so long ago when a murder charge kept you locked up until you went to court.

17 posted on 02/08/2022 1:55:00 PM PST by ex91B10 (Just because you can doesn't mean you should. )
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To: lowbridge

Oh yeah, what was the deadly weapon he was carrying? A podium?


18 posted on 02/08/2022 1:55:00 PM PST by libertylover (Our BIGGEST problem, by far, is that most of the media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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To: PghBaldy

I wonder if they are purposefully waiting to arrest people to keep the story going as long as possible?


19 posted on 02/08/2022 1:59:03 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team sco uts photo-op locations.)
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To: PghBaldy
It took them 11 months to find this guy? Really on the ball, aren’t they.

Amazing the resources they put into finding these people. And yet we have ILLEGALS invading our country who may be terrorists and they can't locate them.

Pathetic.

20 posted on 02/08/2022 2:04:30 PM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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