They are the rebels. With different origins and belonging, represent all social categories of America. They stormed Congress, convinced they were robbed of their electoral victory. Entrepreneurs, workers, students, pensioners, soldiers, offenders, sports champions, circus characters, the son of a judge. Faces anonymous up to a certain point. The FBI had many on a list of people deemed dangerous because they are part of supremacism. Now they accuse them with iHeavy crimes: what shaman Jacob Chansley wanted to kill the deputiesi – says the prosecutor – while 37 are under investigation for the death of the agent.
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The uniforms
A photo shows a row of men with helmets, radio equipment, vest. They go up the steps, each holding his hand on the shoulder of those who precede him. typical way of military training. The same exchanged signals or communicated with the cell phone with a walkie-talkie mode (thanks to an app). Investigators know that among the demonstrators there were many soldiers and policemen. Colonel Larry Brock, 3 children, racist, he had some bands with which – they suspect – he could tie hostages. In the group too Captain Emily Rainey, veteran, missions in Afghanistan, psychological warfare specialist. And then some agents, from Seattle and Maryland. One of the five victims, Ashli Babbitt, had instead served in the Air Force. The great fear that the infiltration into the defense systems is profound.
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The armed
Lonnie Coffman, 70, father and grandfather, they caught him in his SUV near Congress with a rifle and three pistols. Cleveland Meredith, who had left Colorado and arrived late due to a car breakdown, was carrying an arsenal. He had sent text messages filled with delusional threats. Family members claim he has mental problems. As told by a professor, who for study reasons mixed with the crowd, demonstrators spoke of killing as an everyday thing. A recurring speech. These people are determined and will use violence – he wrote effectively -. Many were excited or elated by the violence and the possibility of using it again. Peter Stager, arrested for beating a grounded agent, proclaimed it in a video: Death is the only remedy against those of the Palace. Threats ended in the judiciary: there was a will to kidnap and assassinate on the basis of a pre-established plan. And the militiamen of Boogaloo are also kept in sight, with a passion for Hawaiian rifles and shirts. Among them they use the neologism boojahideen, the white version of the mujahideen.
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Common people
Some are affiliated with extreme, conspiratorial, anti-immigration movements. Gli Oath Keepers, QAnon o i Proud Boys. the case of Robert Sandford, 56, a fireman until a few months ago and now retired. He threw a fire extinguisher at the guards. Richard Barnett, aka Bigo, 60, the man sat down, standing on the table, in Nancy Pelosi’s office where he left a note of insults. He defines himself as a white nationalist, who entered this world by kicking and screaming covered in other people’s blood and ready to come out the same way.
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The star
Kete Keller, 38, an Olympic gold medalist, was on the swim team with Michael Phelps. Long sports career, then a bad spiral. Divorce from wife, legal battle for custody of children, homeless life. He slept in his car and washed in a gym. So I work in real estate in Colorado. They say that with the growing family troubles he has embraced radical positions. He was at the Rotunda with the other subversive. Derrick Evans was a West Virginia Congressman a few days ago, known for its heated campaigns against abortion. An intemperate. We’re inside, he proclaimed from his cell phone after the raid. They have it forced to resign.
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I neonazi
There are also those who miss Nazism or its most atrocious symbols. Robert Packer, a blacksmith from Virginia, wears a shirt with the words Camp Auschwitz, work sets you free. Friends explain that he had long been furious with the government and the state, a sentiment shared by the protagonists of the march on Washington.
And to listen to their chats on the net they are ready to repeat it on January 20, this time – warns the FBI – bringing with him many more weapons.
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