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| Florida college student hit cop with skateboard during Capitol riot: feds |
| 2021-04-03 |
| [NYPost] A Florida college student has been charged with hitting a police officer in the head with a skateboard during the January riot at the US Capitol, federal authorities said. Grady Douglas Owens, a student at Full Sail University in Winter Park, was arrested Thursday on charges including assaulting a law enforcement officer with a deadly weapon and inflicting bodily injury for cracking the DC Metropolitan Police officer with a skateboard during the Jan. 6 siege, an FBI agent wrote in an affidavit. Owens was caught on bodycam video slamming the skateboard emblazoned with the words "White Fang" into the officer’s head, leaving him with a concussion and an injury to his right pinkie finger, according to the affidavit released Thursday. The question then becomes whether he is actually Antifa/BLM Black Bloc pretending to be a Trump supporter or a naive idiot who concluded that if it’s ok for Antifa/BLM to do it, it’s ok for a Trump supporter. If he turns out to be Black Bloc, this article will need to be moved to Page 1: WoT, Fifth Column. FBI Sherlocks tracked Owens down using a Twitter account called Sedition Hunters operated by a private citizen trying to help federal authorities identify alleged Capitol rioters, the affidavit states.That image led Sherlocks to Owens’ Instagram profile, where he’s seen wearing the "same stocking cap" during the alleged assault, an FBI agent said. The profile identifies Owens as a "mix and mastering engineer" as well as a producer and instrumentalist in Orlando and Austin, Texas. Using license plate readers, authorities traced Owens’ silver 2005 Honda Element to a Winter Park apartment complex and a parking lot at Full Sail University, where he takes music production courses, the affidavit states. An employee at the university confirmed Owens as the man seen in the skateboard footage, court documents show. More than 300 people have been charged federally in the siege that left five people dead, including Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick. Owens had his initial court appearance in Orlando Thursday. He was detained and scheduled to appear again Friday morning for a bond hearing, where prosecutors were expected to argue that he should be placed in durance vile Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! as he awaits trial for "crimes of violence," the newspaper reported. If convicted on all four charges, including three felonies, Owen could be sentenced to up to 36 years in prison, the Sentinel reported. Owens, who appeared in court Thursday wearing shorts and a T-shirt, told a judge he believed his parents were trying to hire him an attorney, WESH reported. Either way, he is clearly an idiot. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #6 Sedition hunters? Who are these citizens? American STASI |
| Posted by: Rob06 2021-04-03 13:07 |
| #5 A product of liberal academia, doesn't sound like a white supremacist to me. But then, CBS will not cover this story. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2021-04-03 12:49 |
| #4 Full Sail University |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-04-03 07:48 |
| #3 When do we start hearing about "common sense skateboard controls?" |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-04-03 07:46 |
| #2 Skateboard, eh? Smells like Antifa. Patriotic types don't generally wield skateboards. That's a juvenile druggie thing. |
| Posted by: Huperese Jans9557 2021-04-03 03:26 |
| #1 The law classifies skateboards as deadly weapons. Rittenhouse was attacked by a mob wielding skateboards. As he was fleeing he was hit in the back with a skateboard. When he was on the ground he was hit in the head with a skateboard and threatened with a handgun. Yet his act of self defense is being prosecuted as murder. |
| Posted by: Shese Hupeagum4890 2021-04-03 00:34 |