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U.S. Attorney says Capitol rioter pictured carrying zip-tie handcuffs aimed ‘to take hostages’ Jake Bleiberg Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file . This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer This undated photo provided by the Grapevine Texas Police Department shows, Larry Rendall Brock Jr. During the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, Brock was photographed on the Senate floor wearing a helmet and heavy vest and carrying zip-tie handcuffs. ....
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. ....
As US President Donald Trump’s supporters massed outside the Capitol last week and sang the national anthem, a line of men wearing olive-drab helmets and body armour trudged purposefully up the marble stairs in a single-file line, each man holding the jacket collar of the one ahead. The formation, known as “Ranger File”, is standard operating procedure for a combat team that is “stacking up” to breach a building – instantly recognizable to any US soldier or Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. It was a chilling sign that many at the vanguard of the mob that stormed the seat of American democracy either had military training or were trained by those who did. ....