1/6 Insurrection Investigation

[Rick Plant]

Judge has sentenced Jan 6th defendant Greg Nix to 42 MONTHS in prison.

Here's his story:


Suspect in Capitol riot attack on officer arrested after another suspect identifies him

Gregory Lamar Nix, 52, of Cleveland, Alabama, hit the Capitol Police officer twice, once on the head, and threw a flagpole at him, prosecutors said.

Nov. 11, 2021



An Alabama man accused of hitting a U.S. Capitol Police officer with a flagpole during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was arrested Wednesday after another riot suspect identified him, the Justice Department said.

The man, Gregory Lamar Nix, 52, is charged with engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; civil disorder; assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers with a dangerous weapon; and other counts.

He was arrested in Cleveland, Alabama, where he lives, and made his first court appearance Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Northern Alabama, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia said in a statement. It is unclear whether Nix has a lawyer.

A criminal complaint said a separate person, "the subject of an ongoing FBI investigation" who "minimized his/her own role in the events of January 6," had identified Nix as a person as having entered the Capitol unlawfully.

The suspect, who was not identified, said they knew Nix before Jan. 6, according to the complaint.

The identification of Nix lined up with other evidence, including cellphone data that indicated that he was in the Capitol on Jan. 6, it said.

The criminal complaint includes several photos that appear to show Nix inside and outside the Capitol on Jan. 6. One photo, a screenshot taken from surveillance video, shows Nix flashing his middle finger to the camera, according to the complaint.

Not long afterward, Nix can be seen on video approaching Capitol Police officers who were standing guard in front of the East House doors before he attacked one with a flagpole, officials said.

The criminal complaint said he tried to assault the officer with the flagpole seven times.

Nix hit the officer twice, once on the head, and threw the flagpole at him, the government said. The officer told investigators that he woke up with a knot on his head the next day.

After the assault, Nix tried to break the glass panes of the East House doors using a black baton, according to allegations in the complaint.

It is not clear whether the baton came from officers who had "been overrun in that location" or whether it was Nix's "personal baton," the complaint said.

The doors were eventually opened, and Nix entered with the black baton, officials said.

More than 675 people have been arrested in connection with the Capitol breach, the Justice Department said. More than a third of them have been charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/alabama-man-accused-hitting-officer-flagpole-jan-6-rcna5229

[Rick Plant]

Sentencing today in Jan 6 case of Dan Goodwyn.  Feds say Goodwyn used a bullhorn to incite other rioters saying, among other things, “we need critical mass for this to work".

[Rick Plant]

Partner of fallen Capitol police officer 'was really shocked' by protest lionizing Jan. 6 rioters

A right-wing protest recently attempted to portray the Jan. 6 rioters as patriots. As some on the right turn the defense of the violent January 6th criminals into a movement, critics accuse Kevin McCarthy of being complicit. Sandra Garza, partner of fallen Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick, who died from injuries sustained while defending the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection, joins Joy Reid with her perspective.

Watch video in link: https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/right-wing-protest-attempting-to-portray-the-jan-6-rioters-as-patriots-discussed-by-partner-of-fallen-capitol-police-officer-brian-sicknick-179231301599

[Rick Plant]

Jan 6 defendant Mark Mazza is serving federal sentence thru February 2026 at fed prison in Michigan

Feds argued Mazza brought a Taurus revolver, loaded with 3 shotgun shells and 2 hollow point bullets, into DC, to the Ellipse, and then to the Capitol.

https://justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/indiana-man-sentenced-prison-carrying-gun-and-assaulting-law-enforcement-officers-jan-6


Jan. 6 rioter who brought two guns to Capitol sentenced to five years in prison

Mark Mazza dropped one of his guns at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and then claimed it was stolen



WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who brought two guns to the Capitol on Jan. 6, and dropped one of them on Capitol grounds, was sentenced to five years in federal prison on Friday.

Mark Mazza was sentenced to 60 months behind bars by Judge James E. Boasberg. Before he was sentenced, Mazza told the court he got "caught up in a mob mentality that I never anticipated" and that he was "not quite the monster that the prosecution has described me as."

Federal prosecutors said that Mazza, "while armed with [a] .40 caliber loaded firearm, engaged in multiple efforts to break through the police line: he repeatedly pushed against officers using the combined physical exertion of the mob; he armed himself with a stolen police baton and assaulted officers with the baton; he yelled at officers telling them to get out the mob’s way and to 'Get out of our house!'; he held open the door to the tunnel entrance against the resistance of officers, and after being rebuffed, he gathered additional rioters into the tunnel area to continue 'heave-ho' pushes against officers in the doorway."





The government also said that, after Mazza came out of the tunnel, he was nearby as officers including Mike Fanone were assaulted, but that Mazza "did not assault the officers and video appears to show him trying to protect both officers from other rioters who were assaulting them."

Mazza told the judge he brought the weapons to D.C. because he brings weapons everywhere and had thought he and the person he was traveling with were staying in a dangerous location in the nation's capital. Although Mazza now admits he lost one of his guns at the U.S. Capitol, he filed a false police report claiming it was stolen back in his home state of Indiana.

Mazza said he regretted coming to the Capitol on Jan. 6.

“I wish I could erase it. I wish I could go back and take that hour back" and maybe go to a museum and grab some dinner, he said. He said he felt bad for his children and hoped that his parents won't die before he gets out of federal prison.

“I’m treating this kind of like another military step, like it’s something I’ve got to do,” Mazza, a veteran, said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/jan-6-rioter-brought-two-guns-capitol-sentenced-five-years-prison-rcna53454

[Richard Smith]

Incredibly another week passes with no sign of the leftist manifesto in the Nashville shooting.  Parents are still being denied answers from the FBI regarding the reason their children were killed due to political motivations.  It is disgusting.  At least the FBI director is finally going to be held accountable for obstructing the investigation into Biden, Inc.  Finally going to be held in contempt of Congress. Russia and Putin have nothing on the corruption and abuse of power going on in the US.  I'm surprised the FBI has not staged another tactical raid on Trump's home after the CNN report that the pool overflowed.  Must be the Russians at work.

[Rick Plant]

Another new Jan 6 case is unsealed this week. Feds charge Scott Columbus of Central New York, alleging he was near mob ransacking a Capitol office.

They say Columbus claimed to have been "pushed in" at Capitol.. but feds argue the video shows otherwise.

[Rick Plant]

Plea agreement hearing today in Jan 6 case of James Breheny of N. Jersey who allegedly posted on Jan 6 "The Government has become tyrannical. The People’s Duty is to replace that Government with one they agree with"  He allegedly deleted social media account to avoid detection.

[Rick Plant]

Jan 6 rioter who broke through Capitol windows with baseball bat is sentenced



A Pittsburgh man who was seen in images using a baseball bat to smash through windows in the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, has been sentenced to 51 months in prison, Patch.com reported.

Jorden Robert Mink, 29, was also sentenced to 36 months of supervised release and was ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. He was charged with assaulting, impeding certain officers using a dangerous weapon, theft of government property and aiding and abetting.

Prosecutors say Mink shattered a window on the Capitol building with a baseball bat and started removing property, which he handed to people in the crowd outside. He was also seen using the bat to shatter another window.

He was also seen spitting at police officers and throwing several objects at them.

Read More Here: https://patch.com/pennsylvania/pittsburgh/pittsburgh-area-man-sentenced-u-s-capitol-riot-role