FBI arrests Trump supporter who stormed Capitol while on bail on attempted murder charge

[Emile]

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — 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.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-arrests-trump-fan-stormed-capitol-bail-attempted-murder-rcna15169

[secondwind]

1. This man was out on bail

“on an attempted first-degree murder charge”??

[iluvtennis]

10. Same question I had. n/t

[ZonkerHarris]

16. Must be a white guy

[wnylib]

19. Of course he was. He left jail alive.

[ShazzieB]

21. He was helping to teach the Capitol on January 6.

I don't need any other clues to know he's white!

[onecaliberal]

2. How in the fuck do you make bail for attempted murder?

[Emile]

3. From the above link, it doesn't answer your question.

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.

[sakabatou]

4. Fuck if I know

[Traildogbob]

6. How

Follow the Rittenhouse playbook. Get Christian’s to buy your freedom.

[appleannie1]

13. Bet he is white and the charge was not selling loose cigarettes or having marijuana.

[SergeStorms]

18. No, no loose cigarettes.

Just murder 1, which he was allowed to plead down to a lesser charge, the sentence of which he already served and is out on probation.

He's definitely white. Definitely.

Our justice system offers two very different outcomes, depending on the color of one's skin.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Oh, my - so hard to believe......

somebody could possibly opt to do something like that when they must be SO innocent from their first charge - right?
How else could they possibly be considered 'worthy' of bail from the first charge?

[hamsterjill]

7. 10 months to find him? And he's out on bail?

The first stop should have been the bail bondman’s office. Good grief.

[ananda]

8. I wonder if the FBI was trying very hard.

That agency has seemed so compromised to me,
for quite awhile.

[reACTIONary]

9. 10 months after an amateur sleuth id'ed him...

... The FBI can't make an immediate arrest based only on an online tip.

[Scrivener7]

11. All the best people.

[appleannie1]

12. Just some more of those really nice people.

Glad he is off the streets.

[70sEraVet]

14. Glad to hear FBI is still arresting people for the Capitol Insurrection

I think about every violent insurrectionist who hasn't been arrested yet. It means another sleepless night for them.

[calimary]

15. Works for me.

I was going to say I wish them MANY sleepless night. But that would imply they hadn’t been apprehended yet. I want them arrested, jailed, and convicted of whatever can send them to prison for awhile. So maybe - MAYBE - they have to sit and seriously THINK, HARD, about things for awhile.

Besides, if they have felony convictions on their record, does that also mean they can’t vote? And what else would they lose the right to do?

[SleeplessinSoCal]

17. His father claimed he was robbed before the shooting incident.

It's certainly possible. But it's also possibly a really good made up story.

The race wars continue.

https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/johnston-county-news/suspect-in-walmart-shooting-was-being-robbed-before-shots-were-fired-family-says/

[ENO in 2024]

20. Need a little help

Im old and don't have Facebook ot tweet. I can't start a post
Just joined. Too new
Anyway I wrote a letter to sanangelolive.com, and they're mean. No Democrats are running it sa. August insurrection is unopposed. I'm talking about the bloody red town of San Angelo TEXAS. ILL BE BACK
. LOVE you all. Eno in 2024

[ENO in 2024]

23. Sanangelolive.com

Please Yantis Green don't call me disheveled. Oh he already did on sanangelolive.com in the political heading. I look good for an old punk rock star.

[lagomorph777]

28. What? I don't speak gibberish - can you translate into English, please?

[gopiscrap]

27. welcome to DU

[Lonestarblue]

22. He'll get a slap on the wrist on the wrist for the Capitol insurrection.

As for the attempted murder charge, why the hell was he free in the first place? So he could finish the job.

[Evolve Dammit]

24. Un-freaking-believable. Why has he not been arrested? Usually bail conditions include not to violate

more laws?

[NBachers]

25. Maybe they'll let him out again to do some more criming.

[Ray Bruns]

26. I like sideshow Bob's feelings about attempted murder.