Posted on 06/09/2022 3:29:44 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Ryan Kelley, a Republican candidate for governor in Michigan, was arrested Thursday morning and charged with participating in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
After the execution of a search warrant on his home in Allendale, Mich., Kelley was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor. The arrest comes hours before the committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 is set to hold its first public hearing.
While the real estate broker had downplayed his involvement in the violence at the Capitol, analysis of multiple videos show Kelley on the steps outside the building rallying the crowd. Last summer, the Michigan Democratic Party promoted a video of Kelley at the time, saying, “Come on, let’s go! This is it! This is — this is war, baby!”
According to the statement of facts supporting the criminal complaint against Kelley, the FBI first began receiving tips about Kelley’s involvement in the weeks after the violence of Jan. 6.
Kelley has been charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, knowingly engaging in an act of physical violence against person or property in a restricted building or grounds and willfully injuring or committing any depredation against a property of the United States.
Kelley is among the many Michigan GOP members challenging Democratic incumbent Gretchen Whitmer.
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"To me that’s one step closer to being able to tear down other things that represent our history, like the Constitution. And that’s a scary thing, right?" Kelley told WWMT news in June 2020, during the protests following the death of George Floyd. "We need to celebrate our history, to remember our history, and why the freedom of slavery happened. It’s because it’s wrong in every capacity. So if we continue to tear down things like this and erase our history, when do we erase the Constitution?"
He should consider it a Badge of Honor.
Is there really any difference between the FBI and the KGB?
From Hell Stalin gives 2 thumbs up.
Not a bit from what we are seeing.
Yep, he sure exercised his 1st Amendment. Guilty as H of ???
Capito riot??? Bwahahahahahahahahaha
Pay back will be a biatch!
Pretty soon the FBI will use that excuse to arrest people that liked January 6th FB page.
A DOJ political hit job.
He is not what you think he is.
Do NOT participate in the wrong protest. The right of assembly is no longer a right.
One jails you.
The other disappeares you.
The Left is making their enemies into matrys.
That’s why they rot you for a year first
Hardly anyone would have anything to their name after a year
The right of assembly ONLY applies to Dems, you can even break Federal laws and protest at the homes of judges deciding cases!! NO PROBLEM!!
This could be true, but this guy had been turned in by people who recognized him.
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