Richard Barnett, man who put his feet on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk during US Capitol Building insurrection, released from jail pending trial MassLive.com 4/28/2021 Heather Morrison, masslive.com
Richard Barnett became well known after a photo of him putting his feet on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk during U.S. Capitol Building insurrection surfaced. But a judge this week determined he is not dangerous enough to stay in jail as he awaits trial.
Instead, Barnett will be released and will be under a GPS monitor in Arkansas, CNN reported.
The chief judge of the D.C. District Court said Barnett needed to stay in jail shortly after the riot, the news station reported. However, defendants who were not accused of assault or planning an attack have mostly been released while the wait for trail, according to CNN.
A ‘growing propensity for violence’: Using photos from US Capitol insurrection, Boston’s Anti-Defamation League identified New England extremists, but it wasn’t easy
Updated Feb 14, 2021;
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On Jan. 6, thousands of people stormed the U.S. Capitol building, some of them from Massachusetts. Now residents and organizations from New England are working to help the FBI identify people through photos.
“We need to just recognize that even in blue Massachusetts, there are people who hold these views, and there is a growing propensity for violence,” said Robert Trestan, executive director of the Anti-Defamation League’s Boston office. “And that’s what we saw in January.”
Black D.C. Security Officer Says Trump Protesters Surrounded, Threatened, Grabbed, and Spat On Her Before She Punched One of Them In Self-Defense
It’s been more than two weeks since an ill-mannered Trump supporter caught hands at the Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington, D.C.
A thudding dose of corrective consequence struck one the former president’s loyalists squarely in the face during a Jan. 5 protest. It came courtesy of Ashanti Smith, 28, a licensed unarmed special police officer who works near the White House.
Smith, who is Black, was seen on camera landing a flush punch that left Therese Duke’s face leaking. She fired on Duke after the white Trump lover tried to snatch Smith’s cellphone out of her hand.
“It was a large group of protesters coming down, and they were screaming racial slurs and screaming, F Antifa, F Antifa, ” Smith said.
She says she was on break from her security job in downtown D.C. last Tuesday the day before pro-Trump protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol when protesters questioned who she was with.
“They didn t have masks,” she said. “They proceed to try to take my mask off of my face. I was on Instagram live just to protect myself and also show everyone what was going on.”
Someone with Freedom News TV saw the clash and captured Smith just as she punched a pro-Trump protester who reached for her.