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New from me: Prosecutors have charged an alleged Colorado militia member, Robert Gieswein, which The Daily Beast has been tracking since he appeared in photos of the riot at the Capitol.https://www.thedailybeast.com/baseball-bat-wielding-militiaman-robert-gieswein-charged-over-capitol-riot …
The FBI says Gieswein "appears to be affiliated with the radical militia group known as the Three Percenters." Working with @jsrailton, we found similar evidence. Here's a picture of Gieswein from his now-deleted Facebook page posing in front of CO Rep Lauren Boebert's barpic.twitter.com/tsYj1P795S
Gieswein, kneeling with the rifle. is flashing the Three Percenter hand signs in front of Beobert's bar in this picture from November 2019.
One of the ways we were able to identify Gieswein was from the distinctive "Woodland Wild Dogs" patch he wore on his chest. If you check website registrations, you can find that Gieswein registered websites for the group as well as "Rocky Mountain Oathkeepers"pic.twitter.com/CYCSLm78pX
And to tie it in further, Gieswein also put the Woodland Wild Dogs logo on his FB page.pic.twitter.com/y1a0bNaF6n
There was also an Instagram account (again, now deleted) in the name of the "Woodland Wild Dogs" that appeared to show Gieswein and associated camping, shooting, and doing tactical exercisespic.twitter.com/7J5bJWnN7D
Gieswein was easily trackable at the Capitol thanks to a series of distinctive patches other than the Woodland Wild Dogs one.pic.twitter.com/2gybFGLQRl
You can see him kneeling and looking injured on the night of Jan 5 after involvement in an apparent scuffle in this picture taken by Shannon Stapleton of Reuters https://www.parismatch.com/Actu/International/A-Washington-plusieurs-arrestations-apres-une-manifestation-pro-Trump-1719559 … https://www.instagram.com/zanderavery/?hl=en …pic.twitter.com/xjZ6ZZUKCV
This photo by @Jacquelyn_M of AP was incredibly helpful in identifying him via his patchhttps://www.shutterstock.com/es/editorial/image-editorial/electoral-college-protests-washington-united-states-05-jan-2021-11681512w …
You can see him throughout the assault at the capitol wielding a baseball bat in this photo by Amy Harrishttps://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/trump-supporters-protest-certification-of-presidentelect-biden-washington-usa-06-jan-2021-11695563bh …
In this photo by @kentnish, his helmet is visible at rioters shove a barrier into Capitol policepic.twitter.com/acvN3KmXRv
And as the FBI affidavit notes, his helmet is once again visible at Dominic "Spazzo" Pezzola allegedly smashes through a Capitol window with a police shieldpic.twitter.com/ZvKmm4UVS4
He also joins the other rioters for that infamous confrontation with police inside the Capitol. Standing here again next to "Spazzo"pic.twitter.com/0mcMC00c8F
Gieswein appeared to be active in local gun rights protests in Woodland Park prior to the riot. He posted about at least one on his deleted Facebook page.
He's also quoted in this story about doing an open carry counter-protest when local students staged a "march for our lives" protest in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings.https://web.archive.org/web/20180324061258/http://www.koaa.com/story/37798794/march-for-our-lives-events-in-southern-colorado-open-carry-walk-in-woodland-park …
Quick typo correct: November 2018*. Small gadget, big slippery thumbshttps://twitter.com/arawnsley/status/1350989745405513734 …
This is your daily dose of bizarrehttps://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1350990627035631618 …
Gieswein has been arrested https://twitter.com/TCSOPIO/status/1351321089545158656 … H/t @JakeGodin
Fortunately, The Daily Beast dot com archived it all before he deleted ithttps://twitter.com/alanfeuer/status/1352671779597201409 …
Gieswein has been indicted. Six counts. Obstructing official proceeding, assaulting officers with a dangerous weapon (3 counts), destruction of govt property and entering a restricted building (h/t @SeamusHughes)pic.twitter.com/37g68eKbIZ
Indictment was expected and telegraphed at his initial hearing last week. Gieswein, unlike most of those arrested in the riot, is held in pre trial detention after a judge determined he was a possible danger to the community
Small bit of Gieswein trivia update: he attended this 2018 gun rights protest. https://www.mountainjackpot.com/2019/09/18/colorado-attorney-general-offers-stern-defense-of-red-flag-protection-law/ …pic.twitter.com/WquDoDEgZI
Had this in my notes as a possible Gieswein sighting at Woodland Park gun rights protests but couldn't be 100 percent it was him. Was sorting through some old notes when I saw he's got a picture of himself there on his Insta wearing the same clothes (pink shirt guy too)pic.twitter.com/q4279O6NRr
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