Charlottesville tiki torch carrier arrested for storming the Capitol on Jan. 6

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/charlottesville-tiki-torch-carrier-arrested-storming-capitol-jan-6-rcna94866

WASHINGTON — A man who carried a tiki torch during the racist "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 has now been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Tyler Bradley Dykes, a former Marine who served several months in prison after a state grand jury charged him in connection with the racist event in Charlottesville, where far-right extremists chanted “You will not replace us” as well as the Nazi slogan “Blood and soil.” In Virginia, burning objects with the intent to intimidate is a crime.

An FBI affidavit says that Dykes was referred to by online sleuths as #graygoose, and was wearing "a gray puffer jacket, a gray, textured gaitor, and a tan Adidas baseball hat with black stripe running through the adjustable band." A FBI tipster said in late 2021 that Dykes said he went into the Capitol as other rioters were beating up officers, and that he was still in the military at the time. A confidential human source then provided open-source information supporting the identification.

The FBI received information from a confidential source which included images that identified Tyler Bradley Dykes' unique facial features, including his eyebrows.

The FBI received information from a confidential source which included images that identified Tyler Bradley Dykes' unique facial features, including his eyebrows.U.S. District Court for D.C.
Video, the feds said, showed that Dykes "stole a riot shield from law enforcement and raised it over his head to establish sole possession of the item."

Dykes faces an array of misdemeanors as well as felonies, including obstructing, impeding or interfering with officers performing their duties. A judge ordered him temporarily detained and set a detention hearing for Wednesday.

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[republianmushroom]

1. Good

[Grins]

2. Even after Charlottesville - he learned nothing!

He’s a career-anarchistic. Put him away.

[brush]

3. Under the jail pls. This criminal doesn't learn.

[Johnny2X2X]

4. Jews will not replace us

“You will not replace us" was being chanted by some at Charlottesville, but they were also those yelling "Jews will not replace us."

These people are using Nazi propaganda and some don't even know it.

[Hekate]

7. I heard that, too. You're right that some don't get it, & it needs to be pointed out regularly...

These people are the real deal — call them White Nationalists, KKK, Nazis, Proud Boys, or Oath Keepers, or just plain gutter trash — they are dangerous as hell to democracy and all of us who are not them.

[John1956PA]

5. Nighttime torches and bonfires have been used as intimidation for centuries.

He did not learn his lesson after Charlottesville. He went so far as to wear a mask and cap to obscure his identity in D.C. He may be looking at more that a year in prison.

[evolves]

6. FAFO

schadenfreude

[electric_blue68]

8. Another piece of good news!