BREAKING—They’ve arrested the man who threw the fire extinguisher at the police on Capitol siege day. Who is he? Retired firefighter Robert Sanford of Chester, PA—he faces three federal felony charges including assaulting a police officer. Oy.
3) The extinguisher that Mr. Sanford allegedly threw is separate from the one that killed Officer Brian Sicknick, who was also struck in the head with a fire extinguisher during the unrest and died from his wounds, officials said.
4) One of the officers who was hit, William Young, was evaluated at a hospital and cleared to return to duty. A friend of Mr. Sanford’s tipped off the FBI to his involvement, adding that he was around 55-years old and had recently retired from the Chester Fire Department.
5) The tipster relayed to the FBI in an interview that Mr. Sanford had told his friend that he had traveled to DC with a group on a bus, that the group had gone to the WH and listened to Trump’s speech “and then had followed the President’s instructions and gone to the Capitol,”.
6) I’m personally appalled by the firefighter 👩‍🚒 throwing fire extinguisher 🧯, the only thing worse would be like a doctor telling the public to go get infected with COVID... oh wait, that’s Scott Atlas.
7) And we must prosecute all the way... and no wrist slapping... or else fascist extremists won’t learn their lesson... case in point... https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1349533102759161859
8) We need to take heed from people who have witnessed Hilter’s fascism such as Austrian 🇦🇹 Americans @Schwarzenegger and @andreafeigl1 whose families saw Hilter’s legacy first hand. https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1348305753879281667
9) My wife Andrea’s 🇦🇹 great grandfather secretly fought Hilter’s Nazi regime & smuggled many Jews to safety. He was thrown into a concentration camp.

@andreafeigl1 knows a few things about Nazi history—Jan 6th was downright fascist all the way. 👇 https://twitter.com/andreafeigl1/status/1346966741969031168
10) and FBI says... it was a lot of dangerous White supremacist terrorists... its official. https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1349817788668510218
11) Another good news, they just charged the man who beat a police officer unconscious on Capitol steps. https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1349869930867470339
12) Love this other tidbit—none of the insurrectionists can be legally pardoned by Trump. https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1349918734538911750?s=21
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