Pennsylvania Realtor Arrested After Spearing Cops With Flagpole on Jan. 6

[ItsjustMe]

Pennsylvania Realtor Arrested After Spearing Cops With Flagpole on Jan. 6

A Pennsylvania realtor has been arrested for allegedly attacking Capitol police with a number of objects as he breached the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6. Lowell Gates, 63, came to D.C. that day with a group of friends, according to court documents, and joined in on the chaos as the riot escalated.

Prosecutors say that Gates threw something at officers “before assaulting them with a flagpole,” which he used “in a spear-like motion to lunge at the officers, striking them at least three times.” Gates isn’t your average Capitol-storming couch dweller—he’s listed as the president and CEO of Linlo Properties, a commercial real estate business that he operates alongside his wife, Linda.

Unrelated to his Capitol breach, Gates was arrested in August 2021 for walking around his neighborhood with no pants or underwear on.

Perhaps he was still riding on the high from his insurrection attempt; he allegedly told investigators that he “generally had a lot of fun,” on Jan. 6.

[orthoclad]

1. I scoured a lot of online videos

in the days after J6. In one, someone recorded an older, tubby white guy demonstrating how to use a flagpole as a spear as he marched to the Capitol. I wonder of this were he?

[C Moon]

8. "this were he" ...I love that!

[orthoclad]

14. Yeah, sometimes proper grammar leaks through.

Sorry about that! (grin)

But seriously, I think there may be evidence that this guy was planning weapon use all along. In the video I saw, the guy had some sort of pointy cap on the flagpole, and he was thrusting it like a spear while walking (and grinning).

[C Moon]

15. Not the grammar police, I don't know if it's right or wrong. For some reason I like it. :/

And yes, I agree that he planned that out ahead of time.

[riversedge]

11. I shutter of the thougt!!--of a flagpole being used as a spear.

[bottomofthehill]

2. Ha, the old perv is going to spend some time in the big house.

Bet he keeps his pants on there. Fuck him, no sympathy hope he gets about 6 years. He is a member of the bar. He clearly knew better he chose to attack politics officers, upon further reflection double the 6 to 12. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

[Cha]

3. Jeeze.. he looks a little like trump.

[riversedge]

12. but too much hair --but the chin-neck matches fairly well.

[Skittles]

4. THIS IS A THUG

FUCKING ASSHOLE

[rubbersole]

5. MAGA - Maybe Atrophied Genitalia Ache

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Who doesn't walk their neighborhood naked? 'It might be unconstitutional but it's not criminal...' tfg's legal eagles.

[onetexan]

10. Or a technical violation

[Chicago1980]

6. Looks like Denny Hastert

[ffr]

7. Have "a lot of fun" at your upcoming prison wedding, Mr. Gates.

[yonder]

9. He be Li-n-Lo Properly for a spell.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. I swear that the mentality of some of the Insurrectionists was

Jan. 6 was an extension of a Civil War Re-enactment. All in good fun . . . . .

[republianmushroom]

16. Good

Hopefully a new member of that "Felon Club", we shall see.