FBI #131-AFO aka #Slickback is wanted for assaulting officers pic.twitter.com/APmUU9yAHw
— Cleavon MD (@Cleavon_MD) February 24, 2021
Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C. have identified and charged a man they say assaulted a capitol police officer during the Jan. 6th siege on the U.S. Capitol Complex. According to a criminal complaint unsealed Wednesday, the defendant, Clayton Ray Mullins, stood out in videos of the scene due to his hairstyle. Mullins is accused of attacking an officer known in the documents only as “A.W.”
“In the footage, MULLINS was observed wearing a dark colored jacket, black gloves and light blue jean pants,” the complaint reads. “Numerous videos and photographs of MULLINS assaulting A.W. were posted on Twitter, primarily under the hashtag #seditionhunters. In addition, the hashtag #slickback began trending in relation MULLINS and the slicked back style in which he wore his hair.”
Officer A.W. reported that he was pulled into the crowd outside the Capitol Complex, kicked, stomped, and struck with poles, the documents say. The crowd ripped off his helmet, sprayed him with mace, and took his baton, his gas mask, and his department-issued cell phone. A.W. was able to take back his gas mask and retreated into a capitol tunnel. Once inside, another officer noticed A.W. was bleeding; the head wound required two staples.
The documents say Mullins grabbed A.W.’s foot and helped the crowd drag the officer down a set of stairs. Another officer tried to hold A.W.; what resulted was a “battle of tug of war” between the crowd and the other officer — with A.W.’s body in the middle. [snip]
Authorities tracked down Mullins due to a tip that he held a Kentucky driver’s license. Authorities used that information to track down his bank accounts; a witness known in the documents only as W-1 at FNB Bank, Inc., told investigators that Mullins had banked with the company for thirty years. W-1 identified Mullins in a photo taken at the capitol on Jan. 6th.
Mullins is accused of a litany of federal crimes: (1) assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers; (2) obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder; (3) knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; (4) disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; (5) engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, and (6) violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
That he was id'd through a tip based on his Kentucky (of course) driver's license photo, then further id'd by a bank employee from the FBI's pics of the insurrection shows the value of getting this information out as broadly as possible to the general public.
There are more pics and videos of Cletus Clayton engaging in his criminal behavior at the link.
Approximately 275 seditionists have been charged so far and files have been opened, but no charges filed yet, on 540 more. (This is a good round- up of the status of the investigations and prosecutions.)
