Extinguisherman has been arrested
A retired Pennsylvania firefighter accused of throwing a fire extinguisher that hit three police officers and a man photographed holding a Confederate flag inside the Capitol have been arrested for their roles in the MAGA insurrection.
Robert Sanford, a 55-year-old from Chester, Pennsylvania, faces three felony charges, including assaulting a police officer, after he was allegedly caught on camera hurling the extinguisher as the mob stormed past Capitol Police officers and broke into the building on Jan. 6. He was taken into custody by the FBI in Pennsylvania Thursday morning just before 6 a.m., a source with knowledge of the matter told The Daily Beast.
One video of the protest shows rioters storming past a barricade as Capitol Police officers desperately trying to contain them on the west side of the building. A rioter in the video, identified in a criminal complaint as Sanford, can be seen tossing the fire extinguisher toward a group of officers—and striking at least one on the helmet. The extinguisher ricocheted and struck another officer “who was not wearing a helmet in the head,” according to the court documents. Prosecutors said the object then hit a third helmeted officer in the head.
Another photo from the riots shows a man wearing a CFD hat, referring to the Chester Fire Department. Sanford admitted to a friend that the man in the photograph was him, according to a criminal complaint. That friend ultimately tipped off the feds to Sanford’s involvement in the riots after he confessed “that he was the person that the FBI was looking for,” the complaint says. Sanford’s friend also told investigators he had traveled to the nation’s capital on a bus with a group of people. The group, the charging document states, had “gone to the White House and listened to President Donald J. Trump’s speech and then had followed the President’s instructions and gone to the Capitol.”
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