Video of Roger Stone's Oath Keeper bodyguards practicing head shots to "#stopantifa"

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Prosecutors are scrutinizing training that the Capitol attackers performed at Florida shooting ranges.
motherjones.com
3:41 PM · Mar 25, 2021

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/03/exclusive-video-roger-stone-oath-keeper-bodyguards-training-stopantifa/

Federal prosecutors have charged 10 members of the far-right Oath Keepers with conspiring to storm the US Capitol on January 6 and allege that militia members prepared for the “operation” by “attending or scheduling trainings to learn paramilitary combat tactics.” Video and images reviewed by Mother Jones show that three of the indicted Oath Keepers attended two “gunfight-oriented training” sessions last fall at the Ares Firearms Training Facility in Leesburg, Florida.

Prosecutors have not cited these specific trainings, held before Election Day, on September 20 and October 25, in documents charging Oath Keepers. But the sessions are notable. In the first, an instructor coached the three militia members and others on how to “drop” adversaries by shooting them in the heart, lungs, or head. The instructor, a Florida resident named Andrew Smrecek, who describes himself as a former Marine Corps rifleman, posted the video and images from this training online with hashtags that include “#stopantifa,” “#stopcommunism,” and “#giveviolenceachance.” Members of the group at the training, including Smrecek, later acted as security guards for Roger Stone at “stop the steal” events where the longtime Trump adviser claimed Donald Trump had been cheated out of an election win in November and urged Americans to fight to keep Trump in office.

In a video from the September 20 session, Smrecek wears a shirt from a company he runs called Combat Art Training with the slogan “Keep Fighting Communism” on the back. He instructs the group of six on how to shoot foes “to stop a threat” and suggests aiming at the collar line in hopes of hitting the heart or lungs to create “massive hemorrhaging” or “a sucking chest wound.” He also tells trainees to “think about…a headshot” at close range and to aim “in between the eyes…[at] the squishy stuff.”

“That’s where the rounds are gonna penetrate the best,” Smrecek says. “That’s where we’re gonna end up hitting the brain stem. And they’ll drop. They’ll just drop.”

During the training, Smrecek says that “anything worth shooting once is worth shooting twice,” and added, “Free Kyle,” a reference to Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenage far-fight cause célèbre who faces homicide charges for shooting three people, killing two, during a protest over police violence in Kenosha, Wisconsin, last August.

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1. And now participants in a cop killing insurrection.

And now participants in a cop killing insurrection.

[crickets]

2. Good lord.

The video shows a lynching lesson. It's nothing less than a detailed "how to murder" lesson. Revolting.

The instructor, a Florida resident named Andrew Smrecek, who describes himself as a former Marine Corps rifleman, posted the video and images from this training online with hashtags that include “#stopantifa,” “#stopcommunism,” and “#giveviolenceachance.”

I know there's probably not a law against it, but it seems so wrong that a Marine trained on the taxpayers' dime is now training citizens how to most efficiently shoot other citizens over political differences. I guess the enlistment oath Smrecek took didn't mean all that much to him, if he even understood it then or now.

Also, Stone didn't have to make remarks on that day encouraging violence in order to be involved in inciting the insurrection. Making them in speeches Jan 5 (and likely often in days before that) is enough.