One of the more violent January 6 insurrectionists has been arrested and charged:
The FBI arrested a Texas man this week who was recorded ripping the gas mask off a Washington, D.C., police officer, taking his baton and beating him with it during an especially violent push by insurrectionists to breach the western side of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
Steve Cappuccio, identified by online sleuths as #StripesGuy due to the pattern of his clothing recorded during the riot, was recently included in a superseding indictment that has eight other defendants facing criminal action for participating in the assault on police in the Capitol tunnel. [snip]
Cappuccio, “using a deadly or dangerous weapon, that is, a baton, did forcibly assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, and interfere with an officer and employee of the United States … and any person assisting such an officer and employee, that is, D.H., an officer from the Metropolitan Police Department, while such officer or employee was engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties and where the acts in violation of this section involve physical contact with the victim and the intent to commit another felony,” the indictment said. [snip]
The warrant’s mentioning of “D.H.” is a reference to Daniel Hodges, an officer with the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington. At the doorway leading from the Capitol building to the inauguration terrace, Hodges and other officers were holding the line to prevent rioters from breaking through.
Video shared by the FBI shows Cappuccio grabbing Hodges’s gas mask and attempting to rip it off while the officer was in the doorway. Hodges and the FBI said Cappuccio also beat the officer with his own baton, leaving the officer bleeding from his mouth.
The FBI also announced another arrest and additional charges for another insurrectionist:
The FBI this week also arrested Dave Mehaffie, who was added as one of the defendants in Cappuccio’s superseding indictment. Mehaffie was known to online “Sedition Hunters” as #TunnelCommander because he was filmed issuing orders to rioters who were attacking officers at that same lower western entrance where Hodges was stationed.
Federal law enforcement also added to the indictment Frederico “Freddie” Klein, a State Department appointee in the Trump administration who had been previously charged. These three men join six others on the superseding indictment, including the original defendant Patrick Edward McCaughey III, who was filmed pressing a riot shield against Hodges.
On- line sedition hunters, as well as tips from social media, have played an important part in tracking down and bringing these fascist insurrectionists to heel. The FBI is still looking for many of the insurrectionist morons. Check out their web site to see if anyone looks familiar.
