Members of Congress were evacuated after someone stormed the Capitol during the certification of state ballots on the afternoon of Jan. 6. The incident at the Capitol now appears to be a major case, with the FBI having circled more than 400 suspects, at least 200 indicted and many arrested. on Jan. 28, S.C. resident Mark Simon became the latest person to be arrested.
Social Media Provides Evidence
After the Capitol incident, the FBI quickly obtained video footage of the Capitol and called on the public to report it. At least nine people have been arrested recently in Southern California, some of whom reportedly posted pictures and messages from the day of the Capitol on their personal accounts on Facebook and other social media. after Jan. 6, while Facebook, Twitter and others froze the accounts of more than 70,000 people, including former President Trump, some may have deleted the pictures, but the messages remained in their accounts.
Steven D’ Antuono, assistant director of the FBI’s Washington, D.C., field office, said at a press conference, “They have collected more than 200,000 pieces of digital media evidence from the public and are offering a $75,000 reward for those who identify, arrest and prosecute people who appear on Jan. 6 at the information about those who left bombs outside the Republican and Democratic National Committee buildings.”
DaAntono added, “We will work to find out how and why these (people entered the Capitol), and we owe it to the American people.”
Huntington Beach resident Mark Simon was arrested Jan. 28, and the FBI contacted the local police department to determine if it was Simon who posted the photo on Facebook.
Court documents say Simon posted the photo on Facebook facing the camera with the caption, “At the Capitol!” In addition, the FBI said there was an accompanying message in Simon’s friend’s video post: from HB (Huntington Beach) to DC (Washington, D.C.), help Trump take back Congress.”
Some have questioned whether Simon is guilty for his words. Some media outlets have also defined the people who entered the Capitol as a “far-right group”.
Mr. Guo, who went to Washington DC, asked, “Millions of Trump supporters walked from the White House to the Capitol and not a single store or car was smashed, robbed, burned or destroyed, so how did they become a mob when they walked to the Capitol? Everyone was basically watered down and unarmed all day, and at least 30 percent were elderly, and 65 could be considered young.”
Bisignano: the right to peaceful assembly
On Jan. 26, the FBI arrested Gina Bisignano, owner of the Salon in Beverly Hills, on six counts of civil disorder, destruction of government property, aiding and abetting, obstructing an official proceeding, entering a restricted building or grounds, violent entry on the Capitol grounds, or unlawful conduct. Bisignano was ordered to post $170,000 bail to stay at Home pending a preliminary hearing in Los Angeles on Feb. 4.
In the video obtained by the FBI, Bisignano is seen at the Capitol with a megaphone shouting, “We need gas masks, we need weapons, we need strong patriots to help our boys, they don’t want to leave, we need protection.”
Bisignano said on Facebook on Jan. 11: “I went for the American people, to protest vote theft, no one is inciting violence and breaking the law, we support the police and respect the law, I have the right to assemble peacefully.”
Frontline Doctor Arrested
Also arrested in Beverly Hills on Jan. 25 were John Strand and Simone Gold, who were held on $20,000 and $15,000 bail, respectively, but Strand remains in custody. FBI video shows the two men walking into the Capitol on Jan. 6 and giving a speech. Gold and Strand face charges of entering a restricted building or grounds, entering the Capitol grounds with violence and disorderly conduct.
Gold is the founder of American’s Frontline Doctors. In late July of last year, she and several clinicians came to a press conference in front of Capitol Hill to tell the world the truth about treating patients with the Chinese Communist virus; the simulcast of the live session on Facebook was viewed more than 17 million times in eight hours and had more than 180,000 hits on other media. But then, the video was blocked or taken down by big tech companies Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others.
The doctors said that the data from the mainstream media, the tech community and the Ministry of health are untrue, incomplete and misleading to the public; the number of infections is not critical, the hospitalization rate and the number of deaths are important. Hydroxychloroquine should have been the drug of choice, very effective in treating the virus, has been in clinical use for 65 years, and the U.S. could have done without so many deaths.
Gold and some doctors were silenced and fired from the media for standing by their claims and appeals; on January 6, Dr. Gold entered the Capitol and continued her speech.
Reviewing the Capitol before and after the incident
In a televised address on the afternoon of January 6, Vice President Pence said, “Today is a dark day in the history of the U.S. Capitol, thanks to the work of Capitol and local law enforcement officials …… We condemn the violence that occurred in this sacred place, those who caused the devastation did not win, violence does not win, freedom will win.” The storming of Congress was then characterized as a riot, and the FBI quickly released a partial list of suspects and began making arrests.
Pence added, “This [the Capitol] is still the home of the people …… After unprecedented violent destruction, the whole world will bear witness to the resilience and strength of our democracy, and our people’s representatives continue to come back to work.” Later that night, Congress certified Biden as president-elect.
As far as reports have come out, windows in the Capitol were smashed, doors were broken, someone took House Speaker Pelosi’s computer (which was recovered) and some items; pictures were taken in several lawmakers’ offices; there were sculptures destroyed; and San Diego resident Ashli Babbitt was shot in the throat and killed by a guard; and four people, including a police officer, died for medical reasons. The FBI also said it found a bomb planted by an unknown person in Washington, DC.
On January 6, millions of people who supported former President Trump rushed to Washington, D.C., to demand that Congress remove electoral votes from states with election fraud (the high court refused to hear the case despite numerous evidence provided by the Trump team). There are multiple videos of Antifa agents encouraging violence at the Capitol that day, and people knew what was coming; police released barricades and then closed them, and also fired tear gas and pepper water at the crowd outside the building.
However, looking back to 2020, former President Trump’s supporters held more than 600 peaceful rallies, all without violence. The FBI seems to have failed to find suspects in the Antifa and Black Lives Matter violence that took place across the country in May and June, including the storming of the White House and the burning of the Centennial Cathedral.
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