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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.
By EMERSON CLARRIDGE | The Fort Worth Star-Telegram | Published: January 15, 2021 FORT WORTH, Texas (Tribune News Service) When FBI special agents searched Larry Brock Jr. s Grapevine apartment, they found hanging in a closet a jacket with red markings that resembles one in a photo that he has acknowledged shows him on the U.S. Senate floor last week as the legislative body was to certify the Electoral College vote. In the trash was a patch, previously Velcroed to Brock s body armor, that shows the Punisher, a comic character that has become a symbol of vigilante justice. Brock had helpfully left on top of gun safes codes to access them, believing that law enforcement officers would want to open the empty containers.
Air Force veteran Larry Rendall Brock Jr had his first court appearance in federal court in Fort Worth on Monday after he was identified in photos as part.