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VIDEO THREAD: Pardoned January 6er Jake Lang held a "Crusader" rally outside AIPAC Sunday afternoon, throwing (chocolate) gold coins at attendees dressed as politicians and suggesting "their Jewish money" has caused a "brownification of America." A couple counter-protesters including former elected official Patricia Eugenio demonstrated against Lang and his group. FOOTAGE FOR DOCUMENTARY, NEWS PURPOSES ONLY.
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2) Ivan Raiklin, an advocate for the January 6er's, confronted Lang at the podium. While maintaining a cordial tone, he said Lang has "got it all wrong" by focusing on immutable attributes rather than "deep state traitors" "based on their actions, and actions alone." https://t.co/8Q5JiMHtki
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3) Lang and Raiklin jokingly wrestled for the mic before Raiklin suggested that "You're about a block away from your employer, right? FBI Washington Field office?" "Says the guy who never got indicted for January 6!" Lang replied. "I'm that good!" Raiklin replied. "I run feds." https://t.co/43ZOukNPUq
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4) A passerby argued with "Crusader March" attendees before being escorted away by police. "This guy's getting paid by AIPAC!" yelled Lang, who began throwing chocolate coins at the man. "Take your money back, AIPAC!" https://t.co/2hJDMwOIWJ
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5) "I'm tired of watching kindergartener class after kindergartener class look completely disgustingly changed," Jake Lang bemoaned. "They're anchor babies being sent in as chemical weapons by the Talmudic Jews." "Biological," one of his audience members corrected him. https://t.co/yWFS1ykCpC
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6) "Congressmen and women that have been taking AIPAC money, we suggest you stop now before the crusaders really start" pardoned January 6er Jake Lang described. "Treasonous traitors will be hanging from the gallows, rightfully and justly prosecuted and hung for treason." https://t.co/i5z1cxxsh8
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7) As counter-protester Patricia Eugenio called Lang a "Nazi b****" he responded by throwing a stiff arm salute, which Black Black MAGA activist Andre Williams copied. "If you're whatever naziism isn't, then I'm a nazi," Lang explained before throwing another Sieg Heil salute. https://t.co/yJQPMvqqUJ
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8) I asked Lang to respond to accusations that his work is a psy-op of some kind, as frequently claimed by people online and even his J6 cellmate Tim Hale. "I have never sat down with the feds, I never had a conversation with any federal agent, asset." "I probably end up will, dying in a crusade one day," he added. "When the crusades start, you're gonna see who the f'ing psy-ops are," he says.
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9) Lang reiterated his plan to gather MAGA activists to break Tina Peters out of a Colorado state prison. He says "federal assets" will work alongside "many J6ers" and that "if it's God's will" he's prepared to die for that. https://t.co/C7zCW8QGaq https://t.co/r7WS4K730B
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10) Lang threw a final Sieg Heil salute outside and declared "white Christian men are not gonna sit around while you turn our children into a bunch of n****-lovers" before leading his group away. https://t.co/H2kwt7hwCi
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11) Lang describes a struggle to navigate "a statement that I made, which is true, that I've never been in contact with any federal authority" but wanting to "work with DHS" on his own security after the DOJ Civil Rights office had offered to assist him. https://t.co/zxy1UDrvZh https://t.co/pWHQu1vea7
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12) "It'd be the most viral video of all time, Jake Lang blows the head off of a Muslim trying to jihad him, watch it in slow motion," Jake Lang said. "Pretty cool!" "It was pre-meditated defense!" he pre-argued when I noted this would probably be used in court if that happened. https://t.co/FdjZXva4im
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13) "I don't want Hitler death camps," Lang added. "I just want deportations. I don't want them all dead." "I'm one step below the third reich," he said, apparently disappointing some in audience who pushed back on him: "You think the Holocaust happened?" "Not at that level," Lang replied, "What do I care?" before the group walked away.
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14) Earlier, as the rally concluded, Patricia Eugenio followed Lang around with a siren sound and calling him a "terrorist!" "Stalking and harassment, I'd like to file a police report," Lang said repeatedly, approaching the police for help. An officer escorted Eugenio across the street. "Back the blue, white is right," Lang said.
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15) Here is my @N2Sreports full documentary footage of the "Crusader March" led by Jake Lang outside AIPAC today. As always, all footage is available to license. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B08S3xsLMbI
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BIG UPDATE: The individual arrested at Saturday's rally at the Capitol was a federal agent, and he will not be prosecuted. U.S. attorney says they're "'not moving forward with charges' but did not provide additional information about the decision." https://apnews.com/article/arrests-riots-capitol-siege-gun-politics-us-customs-and-border-protection-f35fb9ad54ac0babf710e87eaec8a4b1
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Moments earlier: U.S. Border Patrol commander-at-large Gregory Bovino leads an exit from the ICE facility, threatening to arrest anyone in the street. Ultimately, two foot chases begin (both were arrested.) https://t.co/zg5IDAmYyI
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J6 defendant supporters outside DC Jail are expressing concern that the Bureau of Prisons is disobeying the pardon order. They say Jake Lang, being held inside, was reportedly “assaulted” and handcuffed tonight by jail staff. https://t.co/M81wXzll0V
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VIDEO THREAD: Activists dressed as contractors took down a banner outside the National Archives in Washington DC this morning and replaced it with their own demanding Biden publish the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) into the Constitution before leaving office. The activists brought two additional banners which they had also planned to put up in the place of existing ones, but police arrived and confiscated them before the group could get those two up.
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Trump’s rally concluded tonight with him dancing alongside The Village People performing YMCA. https://t.co/hu8aFUKJA0
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New bodycam footage shows Okaloosa County, FL Deputy Jesse Hernandez declaring "shots fired!" and "I'm hit!" and shooting at the handcuffed, unarmed suspect inside of his police car. He had not been shot, rather, it was determined that he heard an acorn drop onto the car. https://t.co/D71fddl5V7
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Sgt Beth Roberts responded quickly to Deputy Hernandez erroneously calling "shots fired" in response to an acorn dropping from a tree. "Where? Right there?" Roberts asked before also firing at the handcuffed, unarmed man in their car. Luckily, both cops missed every shot. https://t.co/S0WyadTakX
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A high school athletic director has been arrested after he allegedly used an AI to generate a realistic deep-fake in an attempt to frame the principle for making anti-Semitic and racist comments. https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/k-12-schools/eric-eiswert-ai-audio-baltimore-county-YBJNJAS6OZEE5OQVF5LFOFYN6M/
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CW: Racism/language VIDEO THREAD: Today the avowed Nazi "Blood Tribe" and "Goyim Defense League" marched in Orlando, chanting "Jews will not replace us" and "Jews get the rope." "All heil the Führer," one would call, and the crowd would respond "Heil Hitler!" https://t.co/oGI9Eotc3e
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2) As the Nazis rallied in Orlando, pro-Trump personality @LauraLoomer showed up and was immediately yelled at by the group, who called her "Laura Jewmer" and "tranny Jew." "We're not voting Trump, Laura!" they said before sarcastically joking that they prefer DeSantis. https://t.co/kGpVKSfgCA
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@LauraLoomer 3) Kent "Boneface" McLellan, a Neo-Nazi who has reportedly traveled to Ukraine to serve with the Azov Battalion, threw stiff-arm salutes and told me "I am Boneface." "Slava Ukraini!" he yelled. https://t.co/GnuDOXs6ly
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4) I asked Blood Tribe leader Christopher "Hammer" Pohlhaus (based in Maine and with chapters in Ohio and Wisconsin) why he held this larger event in Florida. "Why you ask stupid questions?" he said. "This is just the beginning." "Heil Hitler," his group chanted in an empty parking lot. "Who won't replace us?" they chanted. "Jews won't replace us!" "We are everywhere!"
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5) As the group finished rallying in the parking lot, Christopher "Hammer" Pohlhaus instructed his group to "Follow the meatball!" The group then marched into a residential area, where they yelled "white power" and "fuck you" at media. https://t.co/setIVX7q0A
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6) While the Nazi coalition was marching through residential Orlando, @davedeckerphoto (freelancing for @N2Sreports) asked them if they're from Florida. "Fuck you," they said. "We don't answer questions from K*** media. F****ts!" "All F****ts, we will destroy you." https://t.co/uHzxbYqmai
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7) Jon Eugene Minadeo II, aka "Handsome Truth" told media to stop following the group as they marched presumably to their vehicles. "Don't make us ask more than once." Another said "Ford knows better," apparently referencing a member of their group who told me to back off during a similar moment at their Wisconsin rally and subsequently chambered a round into a rifle. He then faced away from me and held up the middle finger, just as the man had in that previous incident. One referenced by reporting on that incident and the other said, "Took you all that time to figure it out, f****t?" https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1685387811656998912
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8) PHOTOS: of the Nazi rally today in Orlando led by Christopher "Hammer" Pohlhaus. While they mostly dressed uniformly, groups confirmed in attendance were Blood Tribe, White Lives Matter, Goyim Defense League, and Vinland Rebels Fascist Action. https://t.co/JFpDBMzufe
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9) Among the most notable faces today in Orlando was Kent "Boneface" McLellan, a Neo-Nazi who says he has traveled to Ukraine to serve with the Azov Battalion. https://t.co/pHC4gEYfDi
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While Nazi iconography such as swastikas, Blood Tribe logos, 88 symbols, and SS-Totenkopfs were not difficult to find, I was puzzled by the number "2218" which appears to have been adopted as well by several people in the group. The meaning of this number wasn't explained. https://t.co/BqoIuFchja
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11) Ahead of the other Nazi rally in Florida, a separate avowed Nazi group with ten people calling themselves "Order of the Black Sun" rallied in front of Disney World's entrance, where they ripped up a rainbow pride flag. Filmed by @davedeckerphoto for @N2Sreports https://t.co/6Rk9QDbgxJ
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12) The Nazis outside Disney world waved a DeSantis flag and called themselves "Ron's Holocaust task force." "We're his biggest supporters," they claimed before saying that his support for legislation combatting anti-semitism is "smoke and mirrors." I want to be clear that it would not be unusual for Neo-Nazis to say something like this to damage a candidate they disfavor.
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@davedeckerphoto @N2Sreports 13) Asked by another reporter about former President Donald Trump, one of the "Order of the Black Sun" Nazis said that "he's a p***y, he didn't do any of the things he said he was going to do" before condemning him for having Jewish people in his family. https://t.co/PnF2DOBZpV
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@davedeckerphoto @N2Sreports 14) @davedeckerphoto asked the "Order of the Black Sun" Nazis how they felt about the larger Nazi rally that would take place without them later that afternoon. They say there's "Really not a riff" in the "white power movement" and claim to be fine with the others. https://t.co/vlMOlcuVU6
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15) Here is the full @N2Sreports video of today's Nazi rally outside of Disney World, documented by @davedeckerphoto. Viewer discretion advised. As always, all footage is available to license. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHXt4MaLHvY
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16) This is my full @N2Sreports video of today's Nazi rally in Orlando, which apparently included members of Blood Tribe, White Lives Matter, Goyim Defense League, and Vinland Rebels Fascist Action. As always, all footage is available to license. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKnSmfxzsxA
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I do want to offer one correction to my reporting earlier. I began my livestream with the caption "Police respond as ..." because I intended to focus largely on the police response. In the end, there was none. I didn't see any cops during this story. https://t.co/ScIxXXhiIm
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18) As some additional background: The first time I filmed Blood Tribe was when the group came armed to protest a drag show in Wadsworth, Ohio. I had never heard of them at the time, but I found out who they were shortly after recording this.
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19) Then, in July, the Blood Tribe posted and quickly deleted public plans on Telegram to protest a pride event in Watertown, Wisconsin. There, they carried rifles and called for blood.
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20) Following the Wisconsin event, I learned from a podcast featuring their leader/founder Christopher Pohlhaus that it had been an initiation for those members. I indeed saw the Wisconsin group’s leader out there in Florida, wearing the group’s colors.
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21) The Blood Tribe had announced this march more than a month ago, but they only said it would be in September and somewhere in Florida. It was actually anti-fascist pages that told the public it would likely be Orlando on this date, then a rumored location, and then a State Rep was the first to report the actual location as it was ongoing.
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California taxpayers have been held accountable with a $20 million settlement after Yuba City cops in 2020 paralyzed 65-year-old veteran Gregory Gross and claimed he was just playing "silly little games" when he said he couldn't move or feel his legs. https://nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-man-paralyzed-run-police-gets-20-million-settlement-rcna93800 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-man-paralyzed-run-police-gets-20-million-settlement-rcna93800
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VIDEO THREAD: On Tuesday, Rep @mattgaetz held a field hearing about January 6 at the Capitol to scrutinize the day's investigation and aftermath. "So much of our work has uncovered things that initially were deemed conspiracy theories but we now have sworn evidence to prove."
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The 1st witness at the J6 field hearing was @JeffClarkUS, a former Trump official who called the formation of the January 6 Committee "lawless." He called the hearings "carefully scripted by Hollywood." He condemns the committee for having left much of its evidence unreleased.
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The second witness at the J6 Field Hearing was @EagleEdMartin (who led the first Stop the Steal rally I filmed - November 5, 2020). He is now representing three January 6 defendants, who he says are "targeted, lied about in the press." He says due process and speedy trial are being delayed in these cases. "People that should have been dealt with as if they vandalized a car at a football game or trespassed on property at a school were charged with all those misdemeanors and then they added a charge called 'obstruction of an official proceeding.'" "It's absolutely improper, it's never been charged- it was never intended for a proceeding that's gaveled in or gaveled out. It was witness tampering. It's a lie by the DOJ in federal court." https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1324521906456961024
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CW: Discussion of suicide Testifying next was @GeriPerna, whose nephew Matthew Perna hanged himself ahead of sentencing for his January 6 charges. She says he was inconsolable during their final conversation on the phone. "He had struggled from the start to live with shame and the damage to his beloved family and many friends caused by not by guilt, but those criminalizing the First Amendment."
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Walk Away founder @BrandonStraka described his January 6 experience. He was initially charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor, but ultimately pled down to a misdemeanor. He describes being evicted from his apartment and deplatformed from digital services in the aftermath.
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Sarah McAbee @TheRealJ6Bae testified about her husband Ronald Colton McAbee, a sheriff's deputy charged with fighting police on January 6. She says he's been moved several times from jail to jail, and has had week-long stretches of solitary confinement. She says a guard emptied…
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Former underwear model @TheJohnStrand, who is soon to begin a 32 month prison sentence for January 6, says he was there only as security for Simone Gold, who herself has served 60 days. Following his conviction at trial, the judge apparently condemned him over public comments he had made, which he testifies now is "the textbook definition of fascism."
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A point of difference between some participants in the J6 Field Hearing was over whether the full January 6 footage should be released to the public. (In full disclosure, as a primary source documentarian, I have openly advocated the full release.) @JeffClarkUS says every defendant should get all the evidence. "Initially I had the view that all of it should be put out so that it could be crowdsourced, much like Wikileaks revelations were." He says now that "there is a valid concern" about citizen sleuth groups like @SeditionHunters using the material if it were fully released. @EagleEdMartin says that the current system for lawyers etc is "burdensome." "I differ with the general here. I think at a certain point, the Sedition Hunters are gonna find us anyway. Pelosi already gave the tapes to everybody anyway, or the FBI will give it to them tomorrow." "Let's let it out there, and let's let the public figure out who the people are, and we'll know every Ray Epps from here to Long Beach, California and back and justice will be served." "If they can keep hiding, we'll never know who did what."
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Congresswoman @RepMTG says "January 6 tapes, if they were to get out - and I support releasing them - I've said it all along. But if they do get out, Sedition Hunters will come." "I know that everybody can look at it and say 'we all know who everyone is now' but at the same time, that means that the Department of Justice will be coming after more people." "I do not want to see anyone end up like Matthew Perna."
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Rep Greene invited @TaylerUSA Hansen to speak, who describes confusion as riot munitions hurt people further back in the crowd from the frontline on January 6. Hansen says he recognized a woman there from Portland "affiliated with Antifa." He says he wasn't asked by USCP, MPD, or FBI about the death of Ashli Babbitt, which he witnessed close-up. He believes an attempt by law enforcement to set up an in person meeting was trying to "entrap me."
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Citing his experience as a Sheriff, @RepTroyNehls says "I believe Ashli Babbitt was murdered that day." "I know a little bit about use of force, and what disturbed me about that investigation into Lt. Byrd is that it never went to a grand jury." "That shooting should go to a grand jury, and that's my commitment to you," Rep Nehls said, addressing Ashli Babbitt's mother @michellewittho1 in the audience.
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On the full release of the J6 tapes, Congressman @DrPaulGosar says "A picture is worth a thousand words." "They're all going to come after us regardless, so it seems to me like we aught to be making this big push and maybe turn the tide." "The videotapes gotta come out."
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As the J6 Field Hearing ended, @BrandonStraka testified to another grievance: He describes that he believes J6 defendants should have their case jurisdiction released from DC, but also sentencing jurisdiction, meaning probation is overseen by DC judges rather than home state.
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"We're trying to correct history" @mattgaetz said in a brief press gaggle afterwards. I asked about whether Rep Gaetz and @RepMTG would push @SpeakerMcCarthy to release the J6 tapes to the public as promised. "That's a question for Speaker Kevin McCarthy," Rep Greene says "I of course want everyone to see the tapes but I will tell you, the Department of Justice works for Joe Biden. The FBI works for Joe Biden, and if those tapes go out there, and @SeditionHunters can spend 24/7 using their facial recognition software, then they're going to hunt down, they're going to dox, and they're going to reveal more people and turn them in." "And then Matthew Graves, who is a pathetic excuse for a US attorney, is going to harness his entire office to arrest more people, and they're going to rot in jail to be abused by someone called Kathleen Landerkin, the Deputy Warden here at the DC jail, who hates white men, hates President Trump and hates people that went in the Capitol on January 6." "That's the reality of the situation. I hope the truth comes out for everyone, but I don't want to see anyone rot in jail anymore that just walked through an open door." "And I don't want to see anyone see the same fate as Matthew Perna who committed suicide under extreme persecution."
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Here is my full, 4K @N2Sreports footage of the congressional field hearing on January 6 led by conservative members of the House. As always, all footage is available to license. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs9pDyL-b4Q
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VIDEO THREAD: Climate activists blocked the GW Parkway into DC on Wednesday morning during rush hour to demand President Biden declare a "climate emergency" and cancel new fossil fuel drilling. "I have an interview today, are you serious?" yelled one angry driver, who said she's unemployed. "That's not fair! This is the wrong way to go about it!" "So I'm supposed to be unemployed again? If I miss this interview, what's gonna happen to my family?"
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Drivers blocked by climate activists parted to make way for police to arrive. Officers attempted negotiating the activists into freeing up at least one lane, but some insisted they would stay put until arrested. All video in thread by @wallendupraw for @N2Sreports.
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An officer informed the climate activists that because they were on the Virginia side of the border near DC, they could face a class A misdemeanor with $2500 and a year in jail for blocking the roads. Three ultimately refused to leave and were arrested, re-opening traffic after about a half hour.
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Here is the @N2Sreports video of the “Declare Emergency” shut down of the GW Parkway yesterday morning (which preceded today’s incident where they smeared paint in an art museum.) As always, all footage is available to license. Filmed by @wallendupraw. https://youtu.be/Rx8apBcD1kw
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BREAKING VIDEO: Today climate activists at the National Gallery of Art in DC smeared paint onto the stand and glass case of famous sculpture "Little Dancer of Fourteen Years" by Edgar Degas. They say that human expression is being destroyed by climate change. https://t.co/2coh623kIv