Capitol insurrection
Video Of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Surfaces From Jan. 6 Attack, Twitter Reacts
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 9 hours ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first ...
Video Of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Surface From Jan. 6 Attack, Twitter Reacts
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 3 hours ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first ...
Black Trump Supporter Sentenced To 5 Years In Prison For Assualting Police Officer During Capitol Riots
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty Robert Ponder, a Black Donald Trump supporter, is going to jail for a few years after participating in the saltine-fueled Capitol riots on January 6. Robert Ponder Learned The Hard Way NBC News reports that Mark Ponder, one of the few people from the Washington area arrested for participating in the Capitol riots, is heading to jail. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan sentenced Ponder to 63 months, that’s five years, for assaulting a police officer during the January 6 insurrection that went down in the nation’s capital. According to NBC News, ponder’s jail sentence ties him with Robert Scott Palmer, who attacked a law enforcement officer with a fire extinguisher during the riots. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell testified at...
Black Superhero Eugene Goodman Speaks Out For The First Time
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chip Somodevilla / Getty The unruly mob of supporters of former President Donald Trump that stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021 were thwarted in part thanks to the brave actions of members of the Capitol Police. Officer Eugene Goodman is finally speaking up, attributing his reluctance to seeing how other members have been verbally attacked in public. Officer Goodman, the Capitol Police officer who took the heroic stance against rioters at the Capitol which protected Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) from harm and was captured in a photo spoke out about that moment on the 3 Brothers No Sense podcast. Related Stories “They lock eyes on me right away. And then, just like that, I was in it.”, he said of that moment that he stood his ground in front of the ...
President Joe Biden Addresses U.S. Capitol Insurrection, Slams Donald Trump #January6th
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Pool / Getty President Joe Biden addressed the nation on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Capitol Insurrection in a scathing Thursday morning (Jan. 6) speech and didn’t withhold any punches towards former President Donald Trump. President Biden framed insurrection as an attack on democracy, echoing the messaging of his 2020 presidential campaign of bringing America back together. It was known as recently as last week that President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were both prepared to deliver remarks all connected to a day of remembrance for those who lost their lives defending the U.S. Capitol and to drum down on the need to preserve democracy in the nation. Naturally, Biden’s salvo was the first and perhaps loudest moment thus far of th...
Cop Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Speaks Out, Says He Saved ‘Countless Lives’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NBC News / Fair Use The U.S. Capitol Insurrection has left a massive stain upon American democracy and will be the lasting legacy of former President Donald Trump and his legion of supporters going forward. Lt. Michael Byrd, the U.S. Capitol Police officer who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt as she and other rioters surged has spoken out, stating plainly that his actions saved lives. In an NBC News interview, Byrd revealed from his vantage points the happening of the attempted government coup that was egged on by Trump and others on the extreme right who felt that the election results in 2020 were false. Byrd explained that he had to act quickly to take down Babbitt, who was attempting to get inside the House of Representatives chamber where around 60 to 80...
Man Boasts About Rioting At The Capitol On Bumble, Woman Dimes The Doofus Out
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: TMZ / TMZ Bad boys move in silence and MAGA supporters seemingly can’t keep their mouth shut. One man bragged about rioting at The Capitol on a dating app and a woman put the police on him. As spotted on TMZ one man was doing entirely way too much when he was trying to land himself a hot date. According to the celebrity gossip site Robert Chapman, of Putnam County town Carmel, was arrested by the FBI for his role in the now infamous Capitol insurrection on January 6 in Washington. He apparently bragged about his involvement to a woman he met on the Buumble app. “I did storm the capitol. I made it all the way to the Statuary Hall!” he said to which the woman responded “We are not a match”. Shortly after their interaction, the unidentified woman forwar...
Kult 45: Confederate Flag Carrying Capitol Insurrectionist Indicted
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty On January 6th, 2021 we witnessed a history when a mob of angry white supremacists stormed the Capitol in an effort to stop the confirmation of Joe Biden as our 46th President of The United States, and keep Racist-In-Chief, Donald Trump in office. Not only did their insurrection fail, but hundreds of Trumpians were arrested in the following weeks and now the infamous Confederate flag carrying cult 45 member has been hit with more charges than the average storm “trooper.” According to CNBC, Kevin Seefried has been indicted by a grand jury on five counts related to obstruction, entering restricted property and disorderly conduct. Seefried’s son, Hunter (no relation to Biden) was also slapped with the same charges as his Confederacy represe...
Virginia Black Woman Labeled “Trouble Maker” For Exposing Racist Cops
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: US District Court for DC / US District Court for DC A Black woman in Virginia has been labeled a “troublemaker” after exposing a few of her local law enforcement officers as racists. According to published reports, Bridgette Craighead of Rocky Mount, Virginia has been facing criticism after she correctly identified Rocky Mount Police Officers Thomas “T.J.” Robertson and Jacob Fracker as pro-Trump rioters after the two posted selfies while standing in the United States Capitol on January 6th. “I can’t believe someone I trusted was a part of that animalistic behavior at the CAPITOL!!,” Craighead wrote at the time. During an exclusive interview with the Washington Post, Ms. Craighead revealed that the seeming majority Pro-Trump town “hated” her for doing wha...
Officers Who Did The Electric Slide At BLM Rally Also Stormed The Capitol During Saltine-Fueled Insurrection
Source: The Washington Post / Getty See? This is why we have a hard time trusting law enforcement. It turns out two police officers who showed support to Black Lives Matter activists during a rally were faking the funk cause they also were at the saltine-fueled capitol riots on January 6, which left five people dead and got Donald Trump impeached again. Rocky Mount Police Sergeant Thomas Robertson and Officer Jacob Fracker were charged a week after a mob of angry white Trump supporters stormed the capitol building fueled by the orange menace’s false narrative that the election was rigged and stolen from him. After a photograph of the two officers inside the US Capitol Building surfaced in front of a statue of General John Stark, Robertson and Fracker were placed on administrative leav...
Democrats Reveal Eugene Goodman Saved Sen. Mitt Romney From Trump Insurrectionists
Source: Pool / Getty In the days following the infamous and treasonous insurrection that Donald Trump incited on January 6th, America learned they had a new hero and true patriot in officer Eugene Goodman. Originally believed to have been running for his life from insurrectionists that stormed the Capitol and tried to hijack democracy from America, Goodman was actually leading them away from the senate chamber where our elected officials were sitting ducks for a murderous Trump mob. Now it’s been revealed that Goodman actually saved the life of Utah Senator Mitt Romney before he originally faced off with rioters at the Capitol. BuzzfeedNews is reporting that during the 2nd impeachment trial of Donald Trump, Democrats shared never-before-seen footage of the riot and in one of the video...
