An Army reservist from New Jersey was found guilty Friday on misdemeanor and felony charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Breach when his actions disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain electoral votes related to the presidential election.
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A Navy contractor from Colts Neck charged in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, whom prosecutors have described as a white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer, is appealing a judge s decision to keep him jailed before trial, arguing that he would pose no danger to the community if freed.
Timothy Louis Hale-Cusanelli, who was also a U.S. Army reservist based at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, is asking a federal appeals court to reverse the March ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Trevor N. McFadden, who found that Hale-Cusanelli s apparent willingness to act on a far-right ideology threatens public safety.
Hale-Cusanelli s defense attorney, Jonathan Zucker, argued in a court filing published on Thursday that his client committed no violence during the assault on the U.S. Capitol and his alleged participation in the attack was not enough to justify keeping him jailed before trial.
arrow Pro-Trump protesters seen on and around Capitol building. Rioters broke windows and breached the Capitol building in an attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election on January 6,2020 Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Shutterstock
Two weeks after armed insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol, a picture is emerging about the extremist ideologies that motivated the attackers charged with federal crimes, including nearly two dozen from New York and New Jersey.
While this may be a blue part of the country, the indictments show that the cornucopia of the far-right is present here. They are MAGA in miniature a coalition of adherents of a variety of extremist ideologies, often radicalized online, and always aligned in support of former President Donald Trump. They don’t fit any caricature of the far-right: Those arrested included city employees and an art student; people of varying incomes, religions, and neighborhoods.