Man arrested with weapons near DNC headquarters: Capitol Police

U.S. Capitol Police said the man was armed with a bayonet and a machete.
ByLuke Barr September 13, 2021, 10:10 AM

United States Capitol Police said Monday they arrested a man in a truck who was armed with multiple knives, a bayonet and a machete near the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington.

A Special Operation Division Officer noticed a Dodge Dakota pickup truck with a swastika and other white supremacist symbols painted on it while on patrol around midnight outside of the DNC, according to a
from U.S. Capitol Police. The truck allegedly had a picture of an American flag where the license plate should have been.

Capitol Police say Donald Craighead, a 44-year-old man from California told them "he was "on patrol" and began talking about white supremacist ideology and other rhetoric pertaining to white supremacy."

He was arrested on prohibited weapons charges.

"This is good police work plain and simple," said Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger. "We applaud the officers' keen observation and the teamwork that resulted in this arrest."
It is unclear if he was attempting to attend any upcoming demonstrations, Capitol Police said.

 

Little Joe,

Sigh.

And?

What is your point?

Have you any idea where the DNC is located? Do you know the myriad of offices and buildings that are "near the DNC headquarters", and the vast distance that could be referring to?

Stating "near the DNC headquarters" is titillating BS designed to infer the person had only the nefarious purpose of attacking the DNC because....as everyone knows....it is located all by itself with no other buildings or offices around it for blocks and blocks.

It is the equivalent of stating a person was arrested near the Vatican in Rome.

You are a divider, Little Joe, and an instigator and manipulator.

Clown.

 

Stupid strikes again!

Swastikas are a sure sign of some warped views.

The village idiot has spoken.

 

Swastikas are not a sure sign of extreme conservatism.

 

Reminds me of the old joke about bringing a knife to a gun fight. Probably didn't want to bring any attention to himself so he painted swastikas on his car..... What an idiot.

 

Swastikas have absolutely nothing to do with conservatism. Regardless of what some may try to force us to believe.

 

Didn't say they did. Did I?

 

Good cover . . . so, let's you and your pals stop broad-brushing conservatives as Nazis, shall we?

 

You're extrapolating again TC and get off the broad brushing kick.

I don't associate true conservatives with Nazis.

Problem is, I don't see enough true conservatives these days. I see a lot of rabid, delusional Trumpists.

Which camp are you in?

 

This smells like a setup. The guy's supposed to be a Nazi, but he doesn't own a gun? ...come on, man! He's from California...(Hello!)...another clue!

 

Swastikas are associated with Socialism (the new Democrats).

 

nope. they're the symbol of white supremacists. tRump's base.

 

Lol...I don't know where you get your information.

 

of course you "don't"....you're part of it

Trump has repeatedly been endorsed by white supremacist groups and other far-right extremists, and they've looked to him as a source of encouragement

President Donald Trump refused to explicitly condemn white supremacist groups during the first 2020 presidential debate on Tuesday, instead opting to issue a rallying cry to a far-right extremist group with a history of engaging in street violence.

"Are you willing, tonight, to condemn white supremacists and militia groups and to say that they need to stand down?" debate moderator Chris Wallace asked.

"Proud Boys, stand back and stand by! But I'll tell you what, somebody's got to do something about antifa and the left," Trump said, after additional prompting from former Vice President Joe Biden.

The Proud Boys are a far-right group of self-described "western chauvinists." The group has rejected the notion that it promotes white supremacy, even as its leaders regularly share white nationalist memes and "maintain affiliations with known extremists," according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC considers the Proud Boys to be a hate group.

The Anti-Defamation League describes the Proud Boys ideology as: "Misogynistic, Islamophobic, transphobic and anti-immigration. Some members espouse white supremacist and anti-Semitic ideologies and/or engage with white supremacist groups."

The Proud Boys have frequently been involved in street violence, and a former Proud Boys member helped organize the "Unite the Right" rally that prompted deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.

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After Trump's comments during the Tuesday night debate, far right groups took to social media to celebrate, and experts on extremism warned that the president essentially just helped the Proud Boys recruit.

Rita Katz, the executive director of SITE intelligence Group, which tracks far-right groups, told the Washington Post that Trump "legitimized" the Proud Boys in a way that "nobody in the community expected."

"It's unbelievable. The celebration is incredible," Katz said. "In my 20 years of tracking terrorism and extremism, I never thought I'd see anything like this from a U.S. president."



The president on Friday claimed he doesn't know who the Proud Boys are, but the damage was already done. The group got a massive boost on social media and was trending topic on Twitter for most of Friday.

As remarkable as it was to see a sitting US president dodge an opportunity to decry white supremacists while elevating a far-right extremist group, what happened on Tuesday was not an isolated incident for Trump.

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For years, white supremacists have looked at Trump's racist, xenophobic rhetoric as a source of encouragement. And some of the most prominent far right groups have openly embraced and endorsed the president.

Trump has not made a particularly strong effort to disavow their support, and his behavior has often aligned with their toxic worldviews. Earlier this month at a rally in Minnesota, for example, Trump told a crowd of nearly all white supporters that they have "good genes," echoing the views of neo-Nazis that white people are genetically superior.

In 2016, the Ku Klux Klan's official newspaper endorsed Trump for president. The Trump campaign denounced the endorsement, even as Trump continued to spread disinformation on immigrants and refugees in an effort to dehumanize and villify them.

Shortly after Trump won the election in 2016, white nationalists gathered for a conference in Washington to celebrate Trump's victory with Nazi salutes. Richard Spencer, a well-known neo-Nazi, in a speech opening up the conference said: "Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!"

Trump quickly disavowed Spencer, but his behavior did not change. The president put barring people from Muslim countries from the US at the top of his agenda after being inaugurated, despite slim evidence it would benefit US national security in a palpable way.





In one of the most infamous moments of his presidency, Trump in August 2017 blamed "many sides" for deadly neo-Nazi violence in Charlottesville. The president said there were "very fine people" on "both sides." Trump and his allies have since claimed that Democrats and the media have embellished his remarks after the white nationalist rally, but what he said is on video and can also be found on the White House website (which transcribes his public remarks).



White nationalist groups were also encouraged by Trump's response to Charlottesville and the false equivalence he presented between violent neo-Nazis and counterprotesters. Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke at the time celebrated Trump's remarks via Twitter, thanking the president for condemning the "leftist terrorists."

After the backlash to his initial remarks, Trump issued a more forceful condemnation of white nationalist groups. But it was too little too late.

Amid ongoing protests over racism and police brutality following the death of George Floyd, Trump has relied heavily on white supremacist ploys in an effort to boost his reelection campaign. The president has lauded supporters who've headed into Portland to confront and antagonize anti-racism protesters, which has already had deadly consequences. Meanwhile, he's decried those protesting racism as "terrorists" and praised violent crackdowns by law enforcement.

Trump's condemnation of white supremacist groups has almost always been prompted by widespread backlash over comments he's made in concert with their ideologies. This pattern has played out over and over throughout his tenure, with virtually no changes in his overall behavior. As the US draws closer to Election Day, Trump appears to have abandoned the facade altogether.

Former Vice President Joe Biden called Trump a "racist" to his face on the debate stage on Tuesday, and the president didn't flinch.


Trump's History of Support From White Supremacist, Far Right Groups (businessinsider.com)

 

As usual, you conflate people who would deny Constitutional rights to non-white citizens with people who would defend the Constitution. The Left makes some non sequitur connection between a "good" and a "bad" to make one appear like the other...BUSTED!

 

In 2016, the Ku Klux Klan's official newspaper endorsed Trump for president. The Trump campaign denounced the endorsement, even as Trump continued to spread disinformation on immigrants and refugees in an effort to dehumanize and villify them.

 

What "disinformation"?

 

When I posted this, I said nothing about this guy being associated with, a member of, or having any association with any group at all.

Outside of the DNC is certainly a good clue as to his allegiances but not definitive.

But given all of that, this place is so troll-ridden at this point that it really doesn't matter.

Yak has single-handedly halted any and all meanful conversation. He had a sad about his own opinions.

If he and his trolls would rather circle jerk each other's opinions off of each other, I'd be happy to stay silent and watch it flounder.

I could head over to Reddit and call in the hoards and destroy this place for everyone. That's what Reddit does best.

I'll think about it. I mean, one good turn deserves another right?

 

It's not my fault you can't defend the policies of this Administration...or anything else Democrats have done for the past five (5) years.

 

Is that why I whined over on the coin talk side and called in the trolls? Are you daring me to visit Reddit? Just give me the word and you won't recognize this place. Turnabout is fair play.