Two arrested in assault on police officer Brian D. Sicknick, who died after Jan. 6 Capitol riot
Source: Washington Post
U.S. authorities have arrested and charged two men with assaulting U.S. Capitol Police officer Brian D. Sicknick with bear spray during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot but have not determined whether the exposure caused his death. Julian Elie Khater, 32, of Pennsylvania, and George Pierre Tanios, 39 of Morgantown, W.Va., were arrested Sunday and are expected to appear in federal court Monday
"Give me that bear s---," Khater allegedly said to Tanios on video recorded at the Lower West Terrace of the Capitol at 2:14 p.m., where Sicknick and other officers were standing guard behind metal bicycle racks, arrest papers say. About nine minutes later, after Khater said he had been hit with bear spray, Khater is seen on video discharging a canister into the face of Sicknick and two other officers, arrest papers allege.
Khater and Tanios are charged with nine counts including assaulting Sicknick, a U.S. Capitol Police officer identified as C. Edwards and a D.C. police officer identified as B. Chapman with a deadly weapon. They are also charged with civil disorder and obstruction of a Congressional proceeding. The charges are punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors filed charges after tipsters contacted the FBI allegedly identifying Khater and Tanios from wanted images released by the Bureau from surveillance video and officer-worn body camera footage, the complaint said. It said the men grew up together in New Jersey, and that Khater had worked in State College, Penn., and Tanios owns a business in Morgantown, W.Va.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/two-arrested-in-assault-on-police-officer-brian-d-sicknick-who-died-after-jan-6-capitol-riot/2021/03/15/80261550-84ff-11eb-bfdf-4d36dab83a6d_story.html
Here they are. to dalton99a
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)The Magistrate
(95,244 posts)Cheers for the folks who turned in the vicious swine.
BumRushDaShow
(128,840 posts)and in this case due to the seriousness of the outcome, they had to be sure!
George II
(67,782 posts)I saw yesterday they have about 400, not too many more to identify and arrest.
BumRushDaShow
(128,840 posts)(this is just what is flowing through the D.C. District Court)
ETA - WOW at this (FBI "Most Wanted" list for the insurrection) - https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/capitol-violence
George II
(67,782 posts)They're VERY actively pursuing this.
That's quite a list so far, thanks!
Hulk
(6,699 posts)I can't believe how many thugs and insurrectionists are still freely walking among us on the public streets today. EVERY American owes it to their country to scan these photos and see if they can help put this trash behind bars.
BumRushDaShow
(128,840 posts)and I remember in the lobby of my government building, they had a bulletin board with the latest "FBI Most Wanted" pics displayed on it The board was installed on a wall at the opposite end of the lobby from where the public entrance was (near the elevators and along a corridor to a couple first floor agencies). With all the enhanced security since the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, let alone post-9/11, it would have been difficult for the general public to even get to that spot. Of course with the internet, those pics can be disseminated everywhere.
Hulk
(6,699 posts)My problem is I know very few maggats in RL. But I guess I can consider that a "good problem".😈
I try to stay away from them. Fortunately where I live in Philly, they are not in my neighborhood but there are a bunch down in South Philly and NE Philly (like near that "4 Seasons Landscaping" place.
PufPuf23
(8,767 posts)Thank you.
Go get them FBI !!!
BumRushDaShow
(128,840 posts)Definitely good placement for that link.
keithsw
(436 posts)Anyone who entered that building with a cell phone
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Right now, theyre at least guilty of assaulting him.
Imagine destroying your life for Donald fucking Trump. Unbelievable.
Happy Hoosier
(7,285 posts)But I hope they can determine if these assholes killed that man.
Sicknick was apparently a Trump supporter. It's ironic he was killed by the man he supported. But he has my respect for doing his duty, despite his support for that fucking monster.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Capitol attack were Trump supporters. I can't find the source at the moment, but it seemed legit.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Happy Hoosier
(7,285 posts)I did hear they ruled out blunt force trauma.
RAB910
(3,497 posts)and they worshipped Trump
BumRushDaShow
(128,840 posts)with his "safety" because the insurrectionists "love their country" and "would never do anything to break the law".
bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)fuck these insurrectionists.....
BumRushDaShow
(128,840 posts)liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)The Capitol building represents a sacred institution for those of us who love The Constitution and hope one day America will realize its full potential. They acted like it was a frat house they were free to desecrate. I hope they all get serious prison time.
BumRushDaShow
(128,840 posts)Despite all the tourists who visit D.C., I expect they only represent a tiny fraction of the US population and probably 90+% of the people have never actually been inside that building.
I have been to D.C. and/or D.C. metro many times over the years - notably work-related (but also including a class trip as part of a history class since I am in Philly and it's a day trip). But I did manage to go inside the U.S. Capitol building about 30 years ago and sit in the House gallery.
At the time, you had to get a pass from either your House Rep. or Senator (as I was told by the helpful guards). So I traipsed over to my Congressman's office (which was a good experience itself), got the visitor's pass (and felt sorry for the poor staffers jammed up in the tiny office) and returned. You couldn't take anything up there (stuff had to be checked). But it was pretty awesome to sit up there and watch/listen to a floor speech (during what I now know was the House's "Special Orders" time - where members can literally "read their remarks into the record" - usually to an empty chamber). I believe it was even someone who was "famous" (and later "infamous" ) at the time - Dan Rostenkowski.
I saw where the tunnels were and I think I had actually been directed to use them to get to my Congressman's office (I also saw the little jitneys they had running along those tunnels).
For these uncouth lunatic jackasses to deface and defile that historic building is beyond the pale. They truly HATE America - at least the America as it really is and represents. Their vision of America is a hellhole that they and their ancestors want to impose on everyone who doesn't look like them, think like them, and act like them.
PufPuf23
(8,767 posts)Went on a Capitol tour where learned to actually view Congress needed a pass from Rep or Senator Office as you relate.
When I went to get the pass, the person manning the desk asked me if I had had lunch and when I said no, he said you look like you need some Navy bean soup and took me to the cafeteria.
Those insurrectionists and those that supported that mess are sickening.
BumRushDaShow
(128,840 posts)The people who work there really valued their jobs and I'm sure also marveled at what all is in there and going on there.
Those who smashed their way in value nothing (and that includes themselves now that they are being hunted down, and arrested, apparently not thinking what they did was wrong).
PufPuf23
(8,767 posts)I purchased a 3 month unlimited Greyhound pass and obtained an American Youth Hostel card. The only hostel I stayed in was in DC because they did not exist but one could stay in a YMCA with the card for $2. That was an epic journey.
BumRushDaShow
(128,840 posts)I did a Greyhound "day" trip from Cincinnati to Indianapolis because... I wanted to add Indiana to my states-visited list.
I used to work at my college radio station (@UMASS) and there was a broadcasters conference in D.C. (this was early '80s) and we had a caravan of the station staff in a couple cars drive non-stop from Amherst to D.C. It took about 7 hours going fast, with one car in the caravan getting pulled over for speeding. What a trip! We were sharing a couple hotel rooms (I think like 4 per room). It was just for a couple days but it was definitely a fun trip.
Ligyron
(7,627 posts)I went in '66 and we travelled all the way from South Florida by train back then.
Had a blast and our Senator squired us around the Capitol building and we all posed for a panoramic group photo out front. Now, that guy sure knew how to get re elected. Went to the Mint, the FBI building where they shot up a target downstairs for us with a Thompson. Went to the zoo, the White House and rose garden and Mt Vernon of course.
Geez, I wonder what they're charging nowadays for that week?
BumRushDaShow
(128,840 posts)were just there in 2018 and stayed a couple nights at the Capital Hilton (it's about a 3 hour drive from here in Philly).
Since we had all pretty much been to most of the places before, we mostly got on one of those double-decker buses (I think it was a day pass thing) that lets you get off at different locations and walk around and then you can get on the next one (per a schedule) to continue on the selected route. My BIL is a big history/war buff so we got off at the WW2 Memorial and walked around there (my dad and his were WW2 vets), we saw the MLK memorial, WWI memorial, went into the Smithsonian's NMAAHC museum, and the rest of the time was spent on the bus just rolling around past the usual sites (Capitol, White House, the various Smithsonian museums - and I specifically looked for CSPAN's building ). It was in November so we saw them starting to set up the outdoor WH Christmas tree.
You can often get some good rates there (before I retired, when going down to the D.C. metro area for work stuff, I know the per GSA diem rates were pretty high - something like $225 (or more)/night (depending on time of year) for lodging alone. I think we were able to get something like $150 night for double-occupancy at that Hilton for that trip (and that hotel is right near a bunch of things already).
Ligyron
(7,627 posts)Driven past many a time sure, but never stopped. I'll never get a better tour than the one I got way back then anyway and all the barricades they've had to put up since then would probably depress me
You reminded me, we visited the Smithsonian too, the one with the pendulum, the Washington and Lincoln Monuments and Arlington as well while we were over to see Mt Vernon. Saw Kennedy's grave whose death was still fresh in people's minds back then.
Stayed at the Sheridan, which I'm not sure even exists anymore. If it does, I'll just bet the rates have gone up a bit since then.
BumRushDaShow
(128,840 posts)(e.g, FEW - Federally Employed Women) and those were during the heat of the summer - like July/August, so one of those trips I did the walk along the mall from the WH to the Capitol and actually went into the Washington Monument at the ellipse and took the little elevator up to the top (that was sometime in the mid-to late '80s I think).
I know after that 5.8 Virginia earthquake in 2011 (that we felt here in Philly too - it shook my own work building), they had closed the Washington Monument due to the damage to it and it took some time to fix. I think they had finally reopened around 2014, but it was continually opening and closing due to pieces of masonry falling off it. Then they closed it for a few more years to repair the little elevator inside, then it opened again and 45 apparently kept it open (reduced capacity) until the Biden administration took over in January, and as I am seeing now, the administration declared that it would be closed until further notice for COVID-19 safety issues.
I can't believe they actually had that open all last year, even if it was for limited capacity - mainly because of how small the little room is at the top and how small the elevator is (assuming they kept the same size/capacity elevator when they replaced it), and the stairwells are no better.
electric_blue68
(14,869 posts)just about split evenly (but they're intersperced with each otber) between Fun visits, and Protest: rallies, marches, and demonstrations.
I started in ?'70/'71 going with various people, and by myself all the way up till 2012 (Obama's 2nd Inaugural). And once w family '64.
So I think my first visit with my sis, and a cousin we
didn't need to get a visitor's pass when we visited The Capitol. I think I would have remembered trapising over, and getting it
I remember standing under the vaulted dome which was quite impressive, if I'm remembering right there's a "whisper gallery" aspect if you stand at one end of where the dome is.
We took the 'mini subway'. And I think we visited The Senate chamber which I thought was "small".
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One of the wierdest creepy things watching the 1/6 video of the assault on The Capitol later that evening was when they were going down a somewhat narrowish hallway (at least it appeared that way) .
The walls were a medium colored reddish brown wood, but the curved archway ceiling had some kind of
medium light blueish and white sky painting in contrast to the wood walls, and I gasped because I thought I remembered it from part of our tour around 50 years ago!
It was a great place to visit, and I think I lost my slides from an earlier move, though I have some memories of those, too.
BumRushDaShow
(128,840 posts)you are from the east coast and if so, it's easier to get there from here than if you lived out west!
I was taking courses one year down in the D.C. metro area where I ended up down there 9 of 12 months and I stayed at the same little hotel each time (and the hotel staff got to know me after awhile ). So I have lost count how many times I have been down there, although most of the trips have been work-related.
They have been doing a major renovation in the Capitol Building and I had posted a cool video from the Architect of the Capitol that was showing some of the work they did (since you mentioned the paint and I think the video was talking about how they were going back through paint layers to try to match I think what had been there in 1910 or something). The exteriors have been completed but they had a phased plan to do the interiors.
bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)Now, we and the world look at the shaky ground we stand on.
underpants
(182,767 posts)Jirel
(2,018 posts)But were these the assholes who killed him? He was assailed by more than 2.
bucolic_frolic
(43,127 posts)wnylib
(21,428 posts)look at Sicknick's medical history and the chemical composition of the bear spray to determine if the spray likely caused his death.
smb
(3,471 posts)Close enough to "direct cause of death" for me.
bucolic_frolic
(43,127 posts)for privacy reasons probably. He may have had multiple injuries to organs as well as the bear spray. Experts get into primary factor, contributing factors, or that's where a defense would go. With the caveat I'm no expert either!
FailureToCommunicate
(14,012 posts)hateful mug.
So many of the wanted poster photos show them wearing no mask. You might think they'd have spread and contracted Covid and the police could look for them in their nearest hospital.
bottomofthehill
(8,329 posts)maybe they can share a cell for the next 20 or so years for assaulting a cop. if they can link his death, life together......
riversedge
(70,186 posts)Roc2020
(1,615 posts)involved? that will be the scandal of the century.
pwb
(11,261 posts)Hairdressers and Barbers and the like were hit hard by this pandemic and are hurting. They blame everyone for the virus and are the ones pushing for normal ahead of time. Get another job angry people. MO.
dalton99a
(81,450 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,840 posts)eissa
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Like the majority of Middle Eastern Christian communities, theyre here because their families fled dictatorships and discrimination, yet they end up embracing those qualities in their leaders here. Its really frustrating to observe members of my community so feverishly embrace trumpism, it has really created a rift.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)If the bear spray didn't kill him, there are still murderers at large, and I want the rest of their lives to go very badly indeed.
Jilly_in_VA
(9,965 posts)Hang the bastards out to dry.
Justice matters.
(6,925 posts)But don't hang them. That would be too quick a punishment.
AllyCat
(16,177 posts)Throw the book at these murderers.
Grins
(7,212 posts)Only 20? A police officer dead in a premeditated attack along with two other police officers assaulted?
COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)It's not nearly long enough, but it would probably be an effective life sentence. I doubt these two would do well in GENPOP.
neohippie
(1,142 posts)I remember reading about one of the insurrectionists who was spraying Wasp Killer
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2021/2/27/2018475/-New-Images-Surface-Of-Insurrectionist-Using-Black-Flag-Wasp-amp-Hornet-Killer-As-A-Weapon-On-Jan-6
Link to tweet
I wonder if they have identified this person yet?
Ligyron
(7,627 posts)Imagine getting a facefull of that stuff ... it could easily be lethal. Hopefully they're closing in and just dotting their "i's" before charging whoever that is.
COL Mustard
(5,897 posts)I hope they get very, very long prison sentences.
The GQP is no longer the party of law and order. Jan. 6 was just the latest manifestation thereof.
granular
(11 posts)then throw the book at them. No slap on the wrist.
EarthFirst
(2,900 posts)If past is prologue; theyre probably on release to take their spring break vacation..:
Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)twodogsbarking
(9,732 posts)Pennsylvania.
róisín_dubh
(11,791 posts)I can't access news stories about them as I'm abroad, but he's a nasty, nasty character. Before this even happened.