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Judge slams Capitol riot defendant for requesting Jamaican vacation on Jan. 6 anniversary​

If Anthony Williams had his way, he’d be in sunny Jamaica later this month, vacationing with his girlfriend and impressing her family.

But Williams, a Michigan man accused of storming the U.S. Capitol a year ago in what he allegedly called the “proudest day of my life,” can’t travel outside the country without a federal judge’s approval. So on Thursday, the anniversary of the Capitol riot, he filed a motion to get it.

Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell denied his request within hours.

“This Court will not commemorate the one-year anniversary of this attack on the Capitol by granting defendant’s request for non-essential foreign travel when he is awaiting judgment for his actions on that day,” Howell wrote.

Those actions, according to the FBI, include illegally entering the Capitol. In one video shot while inside the building, Williams talked about how he and others “stormed” the Capitol and “pushed back the cops,” FBI agent Matthew Hughes said in a sworn affidavit.

Williams is indicted on five charges, including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and has pleaded not guilty. He’s one of more than 700 people to face charges for their alleged roles in the attack on the Capitol, when a pro-Trump mob broke into the building as lawmakers were certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory.

Williams, in his request on Thursday, said he wished to visit Jamaica from Jan. 31 to Feb. 10 to meet his girlfriend’s family. He planned to stay with her at her father’s home in Negril, on the western edge of the island, and work at a local nonprofit called St. Anthony’s Kitchen, which feeds the poor, according to the motion filed by Williams’s attorney.

Williams has been on pretrial release since March 2021, when he made his first court appearance, the request states. Williams, his lawyer added, “has appeared consistently” at court hearings in connection to his case.

“Respectfully, his demonstrated compliance with conditions in this case is compelling evidence that he will continue to comply with conditions if this request is granted,” attorney Benton Martin said in the motion.

Martin did not respond to The Washington Post’s request for comment on the judge’s denial.

FBI officials said they first learned of Williams through an online tipster who sent screenshots of posts from Williams’s Facebook account. Investigators spoke with the person, who described several other since-deleted posts that showed Williams inside the Capitol, according to court documents.

Federal agents later obtained pictures and videos of Williams inside the Capitol, court records state. In one video, Williams talked about successfully entering the Capitol, adding that “desperate times call for desperate measures,” Hughes, the FBI agent, said. Williams also allegedly posed next to and near several statues once inside the building.

In another video, the FBI agent said, Williams talked about how he and others “stormed” the Capitol and “pushed back the cops,” who used pepper spray. Williams claimed that “we took this … building.”

The records also revealed Williams’s actions in the weeks and months leading up to Jan. 6, the FBI agent said. On Nov. 13, less than a week after Biden was declared the winner, Williams denounced on Facebook the “‘Americans’ who participated in [the] fraudulent scheme to overthrow our duly elected President” as “TRAITORS,” the agent said. Williams allegedly included several hashtags in his post: #FightBack, #HOLDTHELINE, #Trump2020 and #NoRetreatNoSurrender.

“Every lie will be revealed,” he wrote, according to court documents.

By the end of December, Williams had solidified plans to travel to D.C. in early January 2021, according to the FBI. In one post, Williams allegedly wrote, “We gonna Storm the Swamp.”

Three days after the insurrection, Williams sent a Facebook message in which he identified himself as an “Operation Swamp Storm Veteran,” according to the FBI, and characterized the riot as a “modern day tea party.”

“Was proudest day of my life lol felt like the founding fathers were smiling down on us in that room,” he wrote, according to court documents.

Howell, the federal judge, referenced one of Williams’s alleged comments when denying the travel request. She said she understood why Williams wished to escape “the Michigan winter to spend ten days in the warmer climes of Jamaica.”

“Although such a meeting may be an important step in defendant’s personal relationship,” Howell wrote in her order, “[Williams] surrendered his entitlement to unfettered international travel when … he allegedly announced his intent to ‘Storm the Swamp.’ ”
 
Roccus7 said:
The Poster Child Definition of Chutzpah!!!!

Judge slams Capitol riot defendant for requesting Jamaican vacation on Jan. 6 anniversary​

If Anthony Williams had his way, he’d be in sunny Jamaica later this month, vacationing with his girlfriend and impressing her family.

But Williams, a Michigan man accused of storming the U.S. Capitol a year ago in what he allegedly called the “proudest day of my life,” can’t travel outside the country without a federal judge’s approval. So on Thursday, the anniversary of the Capitol riot, he filed a motion to get it.

Chief U.S. District Judge Beryl A. Howell denied his request within hours.

“This Court will not commemorate the one-year anniversary of this attack on the Capitol by granting defendant’s request for non-essential foreign travel when he is awaiting judgment for his actions on that day,” Howell wrote.

Those actions, according to the FBI, include illegally entering the Capitol. In one video shot while inside the building, Williams talked about how he and others “stormed” the Capitol and “pushed back the cops,” FBI agent Matthew Hughes said in a sworn affidavit.

Williams is indicted on five charges, including violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and has pleaded not guilty. He’s one of more than 700 people to face charges for their alleged roles in the attack on the Capitol, when a pro-Trump mob broke into the building as lawmakers were certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory.

Williams, in his request on Thursday, said he wished to visit Jamaica from Jan. 31 to Feb. 10 to meet his girlfriend’s family. He planned to stay with her at her father’s home in Negril, on the western edge of the island, and work at a local nonprofit called St. Anthony’s Kitchen, which feeds the poor, according to the motion filed by Williams’s attorney.

Williams has been on pretrial release since March 2021, when he made his first court appearance, the request states. Williams, his lawyer added, “has appeared consistently” at court hearings in connection to his case.

“Respectfully, his demonstrated compliance with conditions in this case is compelling evidence that he will continue to comply with conditions if this request is granted,” attorney Benton Martin said in the motion.

Martin did not respond to The Washington Post’s request for comment on the judge’s denial.

FBI officials said they first learned of Williams through an online tipster who sent screenshots of posts from Williams’s Facebook account. Investigators spoke with the person, who described several other since-deleted posts that showed Williams inside the Capitol, according to court documents.

Federal agents later obtained pictures and videos of Williams inside the Capitol, court records state. In one video, Williams talked about successfully entering the Capitol, adding that “desperate times call for desperate measures,” Hughes, the FBI agent, said. Williams also allegedly posed next to and near several statues once inside the building.

In another video, the FBI agent said, Williams talked about how he and others “stormed” the Capitol and “pushed back the cops,” who used pepper spray. Williams claimed that “we took this … building.”

The records also revealed Williams’s actions in the weeks and months leading up to Jan. 6, the FBI agent said. On Nov. 13, less than a week after Biden was declared the winner, Williams denounced on Facebook the “‘Americans’ who participated in [the] fraudulent scheme to overthrow our duly elected President” as “TRAITORS,” the agent said. Williams allegedly included several hashtags in his post: #FightBack, #HOLDTHELINE, #Trump2020 and #NoRetreatNoSurrender.

“Every lie will be revealed,” he wrote, according to court documents.

By the end of December, Williams had solidified plans to travel to D.C. in early January 2021, according to the FBI. In one post, Williams allegedly wrote, “We gonna Storm the Swamp.”

Three days after the insurrection, Williams sent a Facebook message in which he identified himself as an “Operation Swamp Storm Veteran,” according to the FBI, and characterized the riot as a “modern day tea party.”

“Was proudest day of my life lol felt like the founding fathers were smiling down on us in that room,” he wrote, according to court documents.

Howell, the federal judge, referenced one of Williams’s alleged comments when denying the travel request. She said she understood why Williams wished to escape “the Michigan winter to spend ten days in the warmer climes of Jamaica.”

“Although such a meeting may be an important step in defendant’s personal relationship,” Howell wrote in her order, “[Williams] surrendered his entitlement to unfettered international travel when … he allegedly announced his intent to ‘Storm the Swamp.’ ”
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Yep your right the Judge is the definition. Imagine being told you need an ok to go away because your accused of a misdemeanor.
 
Time machine...my oh my

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I do not condone what happened on that day. It was wrong, and those folks who committed crimes will face justice.​


Here is where I struggle. Every fake news outlet keeps calling this an "insurrection" or "terrorism". But for the life of me, I cannot find ONE SINGLE case filed under those charges. Can anyone?

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18 U.S. Code § 2383 - Rebellion or insurrection​

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Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, § 330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

18 U.S. Code CHAPTER 113B—TERRORISM​

 
longcast said:
I do not condone what happened on that day. It was wrong, and those folks who committed crimes will face justice.

Here is where I struggle. Every fake news outlet keeps calling this an "insurrection" or "terrorism". But for the life of me, I cannot find ONE SINGLE case filed under those charges. Can anyone?
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The great irony was apparently the protesters are the most heavily armed demographic on the planet, and they all forgot their guns?
The only person that was shot and killed was an unarmed protester.
 
jpd said:
The great irony was apparently the protesters are the most heavily armed demographic on the planet, and they all forgot their guns?
The only person that was shot and killed was an unarmed protester.
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Trump Flags - weapons of mass destruction.

Unarmed VETERAN shot and killed. Officer was given a pass for a bad shoot.

Kim Potter will spend a long time in jail because she yelled "taser" but used her service weapon on a thug while protecting her partner!

Let that sink in.
 
I used to rely on FOX News for my information. Always the first source I went to.

No more.

With their current stance of whitewashing what took place on 1/6 and their hypocritical stance on COVID Vacccines & masking I can no longer stomach watching. Bret Beir is about the only anchor with a modicum of integrity since Chris Wallace departed.

They spend the whole show telling us what a failure Biden's Policies have been regarding COVID. It's as though their constent wholesale trashing of vaccines & masking are having no an impact on this. Screw masks. Screw the vaccines. They don't work! No womder his policies are wreckage.

I started finding my self yelling at the screen that "Of course they don't work you assholes!. You freakin' hypocrites keep telling your base that they are useless. That's why we have continuing variants popping up & are still dealing with this 2 years later!"

That's getting directed at the 7 million that voted for that POS. They will never get with the program. And this is why COVID & it's multiple variants will be a part of our lives going forward. It's the biggest display of lunacy I ever seen.

Disclaimer: anyone that's engaged with me in the past knows I voted for neither Trump or Biden. I didn't want either of them anywhere near the White House. I voted 3rd Party in both this last election as well a the one before this one. So before I get roundly berated for being a stooge of the left & called some farm animal that wool sweaters are made from - you can just keep that to yourself..

I vote for no Party.
I vote for the candidate I think is fit for the job.
Neither of the candidates from either of the major parties fit that criteria the last two times around.

Do I think Biden's approach to COVID is failing?
Yeah.

Who do I blame?
Take a guess.
jpd said:
It would have really been an "Insurrection" if they shot up the Capitol - do you see what's going on?
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Calling it an insurrection I thought was a bit over the top just as much as people calling it a protest. It was a freakin' riot with the aim of stopping the Certification of the Election results. Which since that's a Constitutional Process - maybe it does fall under that banner.

Dragging a gallows out & calling for the hanging of Pence preeeeeeeetty much cemented the insurrection moniker in my mind. As I'm sure it did in others. Democrates get the chance to use all of this as best they can.
 
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