Man Charged With Beating Police Officer With American Flag During Capitol Attack

[brooklynite]

Source: Wall Street Journal

An Arkansas man caught on video beating a police officer with an American flag at the Capitol riot was charged on Thursday with obstructing a law enforcement officer, as federal authorities escalated their efforts Thursday to target some of the more brazen violent conduct from last week’s attack.

A man identified in court documents as Peter Stager allegedly partook in the riot and assaulted the officer from the Washington, D.C., police department. The officer was guarding an entrance of the U.S. Capitol after 4 p.m., when members of the mob grabbed him, dragged him down a set of stairs, forced him into a prone position and proceeded to forcibly and repeatedly strike him, according to the affidavit of FBI special agent Jason Coe. The document identified the Washington police officer only as B.M., saying it was anonymizing victims and witnesses.

A confidential informant notified the FBI on Tuesday that they recognized Mr. Stager from videos posted online in social media , and from another video in which Mr. Stager allegedly said: “Everybody in there is a treasonous traitor. Death is the only remedy for what’s in that building.”

Another associate spoke to Mr. Stager about his involvement, and relayed that information to the FBI, according to the document, which was approved by U.S. Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui.

Read more: https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/trump-impeachment-house-biden/card/BeFqRm1wpv2SEpH3SSLQ

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[VA_Jill]

1. Good

The pig here is the one beating the officer. And once again, by their bad facial hair ye shall know them. Ugh.

[Grokenstein]

4. They'll have to shave him for the Chair.

Let's see how hot he is for "death is the only answer" then.

[secondwind]

2. Omg, they are too horrible for words...... what's wrong with these people??!!?

[catbyte]

3. So, EVERYBODY in there is a "treasonous traitor?" What about Hawley, Cruz, and the

rest of the Sedition Caucus? Sick fucks like him are too twisted the realize that they're the real traitors.

[keithbvadu2]

5. At least he was not kneeling.

At least he was not kneeling.

[procon]

6. He won't be out of prison for quite a while.

Trying to murder a cop will heap every charge they can find on him. Being stupid has consequences.

[twodogsbarking]

7. There is some kind of weird irony

in this but at this point it is just all too crazy to grasp.

[intrepidity]

9. Good! This monster was particularly viscious nt

[JohnnyRingo]

10. Is he going to need a good lawyer, or what?

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I'm about to explain why my law abiding patriotic client saw it his duty to beat an officer with the American flag on a pole". "Trump".

[mahina]

11. What unholy hell that man has created

Orange Pos

I don’t know what it teaches us that we have so many morons will willing to follow him into prison

[WhiteTara]

12. I wish I could find out where he lived.

I live in AR and want to make sure I can avoid those horrid deplorables at every turn.

[Bayard]

13. Charged with obstructing a law enforcement officer?!

That's the BEST they can come up with?! Not even assault? He was trying to beat that cop to death. Attempted homicide.