A retired Air Force officer who was part of the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol last week carried plastic zip-tie handcuffs because he intended “to take hostages,” a prosecutor said in a Texas court on Thursday.
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A retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel photographed carrying zip-tie handcuffs inside the Capitol during last week’s riot planned to take hostages, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.
In wielding the restraints, Larry Brock means to take hostages. He means to kidnap, restrain, perhaps try, perhaps execute members of the U.S. government, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Jay Weimer.
Weimer, who at Thursday’s hearing argued Brock should be detained, did not elaborate on his allegations.
The prosecutor read a social media post from Brock the day of the siege, in which he says, Patriots on the Capitol. Patriots storming. Men with guns need to shoot their way in.
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Retired Lt. Col. Larry Rendall Brock Jr was arrested last Sunday in Texas over his involvement in the US Capitol siege
He was photographed on the Senate floor during the deadly riot wearing a helmet and heavy vest and carrying plastic zip-tie handcuffs
The 53-year-old appeared in a Texas court on Thursday on a string of charges
Prosecutors said the zip ties were proof Brock had planned to take hostages during the siege