FBI launches flurry of arrests over attacks on journalists during Capitol riot

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

FBI launches flurry of arrests over attacks on journalists during Capitol riot

By Devlin Barrett
July 3, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

Nearly six months after the U.S. Capitol riot, the Justice Department has begun arresting a new category of alleged criminals — those who attacked reporters or damaged their equipment as journalists documented the violence perpetrated by supporters of President Donald Trump.

The first such charge came last week, when 43-year-old Shane Jason Woods of Illinois was charged with engaging in violence on the Capitol grounds Jan. 6, as well as assaulting a law enforcement officer. Authorities say Woods was caught on video knocking down a cameraman.

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Amid that ongoing tension, the Justice Department has begun arresting some of those who allegedly surrounded a group of reporters outside the Capitol, ran them off and then set out to destroy tens of thousands of dollars worth of their gear.

On Thursday, FBI agents arrested a Covington, Va., man for allegedly destroying journalists’ equipment. Joshua Dillon Haynes was charged with smashing their gear outside the Capitol and bragging about it in a text to a friend. Haynes was the fifth person arrested in connection with attacks on the media in a little more than a week.

“We attacked the CNN reporters and the fake news and destroyed tens of thousands of dollars of their video and television equipment here’s a picture behind me of the pile we made out of it,” he allegedly messaged the person, according to court papers.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/capitol-riot-media-attacks/2021/07/02/8af871d2-daa7-11eb-bb9e-70fda8c37057_story.html

[blueinredohio]

1. I hope along with jail time they also have to pay for all they ruined.

[intheflow]

2. "We attacked CNN... and the fake news..."

So you attacked news crews and destroy their equipment, who recorded you attacking them, claiming they are fake news, though now everyone can see through your own social media admission and their footage that they have been telling the truth about you all along. Irony knows no bounds. Nor does stupidity, apparently.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. "fake news" is projection, TFG has a con man's talent for getting in peoples' heads

with paranoia and his own fake delusional reality to help himself. I still say his entire schtick is basically a harmful public fraud and should be treated as such.

[Justice matters.]

7. Nor does stupidity, surely, along with criminality.

That's the definition of the GQP today, formerly known as the Lincoln party.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. That group of tourists were not very nice to their fellow citizens

The last guy whipped his supporters into a frenzy so they could help save his political life so he could sell the country to salvage his crumbling financial mess. It was all on Kurt Eichenwald's tweets yesterday. Now it all makes sense as to what was going on.

[TeamProg]

5. Not only politically aware, but also representative of the smartest conservative patriots.

(obviously)

[KS Toronado]

6. Yep, we can't have "fake news" showing the public what we're doing

We'll photograph it for them for the history books..