Police arrest Tampa Bay man seen carrying Pelosi's lectern

[IceWizard]

Police arrest Tampa Bay man seen
carrying Pelosi's lectern






Adam Johnson is charged with theft of government property
and two additional counts.



(ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.) —

Adam Johnson, the man seen smiling and waving at the camera
while carrying the lectern of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during
the U.S. Capitol riot, has been arrested.

Johnson, a 36-year-old man from Parrish, Florida, was jailed on
a federal warrant Friday in Pinellas County, records show.

He faces charges of knowingly entering or remaining in any
restricted building or grounds without lawful authority,
one count of theft of government property and
one count of violent entry and disorderly conduct on
Capitol ground, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.


The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the
District of Columbia and investigated by the FBI’s Washington Field Office
and the United States Capitol Police.

A photo of Johnson, taken by Getty Images photographer Win McNamee,
was one of many that went viral during the armed insurrection of the Capitol
on Wednesday by supporters of President Donald Trump. The FBI searched
for Johnson as part of a nationwide effort to find and charge those who
stormed the building, according to the Bradenton Herald.


"It is alleged that on Jan. 6, 2021, Johnson illegally entered the
United States Capitol and removed the Speaker of the House’s lectern
from where it had been stored on the House side of the Capitol building,"
the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement. "A search of open sources
led law enforcement to Johnson, who is allegedly seen in a widely
circulated photo inside the Capitol carrying the lectern."

The Bradenton Herald reports Johnson is a stay-at-home dad who lives
with his wife and five children. His prior criminal history includes
possession of marijuana and violation of probation charges.

According to the FBI's "statement of facts" related to Johnson's arrest,
publically available social media images and news articles aided an agent
to locate the Florida man. The FBI's National Threat Operations Center also
received a tip from a caller who claimed they shared a mutual friend
with Johnson.

[IceWizard]

I highly doubt that analogy you present ...

Evidently, you base things on race... I do not...
I only dislike people on their own merit, not someone
else's ideas ... There is good and bad in every race know to man,
all are not one color/race/gender/hair color/{fill in yours here}

To shun ANY race by the way they look,
is cheating yourself out of friends...

Judge a tree by the fruit it bears, not the way it looks...

Ice

I wonder if the distinction between "carrying" the lectern vs looting would have been the color of his skin.

[IceWizard]

No matter what he was "carrying" and/or "looting"

It reminded me of "The Summer of Love" in Washington state...

A "Peaceful Protest" ...

Adam Johnson is charged with theft of government property
and two additional counts.


He does NOT pass go and he does NOT collect $200 ...

Jail is jail, I don't give a hoot how one winds up there...

I will not play into semantics' ....

Ice

[IceWizard]

You may have an uphill battle convincing those small business owners, phone stores,
other retail shops, that there is no difference between a riot and a peaceful protest...

The Gov of Wash state and the Mayor of Seattle both let a mob take over part of
downtown and tried to burn a police station (once with police inside) ...

After Chaz/Chop was roped off, the "leader" advised all white folks to give
$10 to every black person they saw ...

Oh, I guess the "looting" was only "reparations" for things way before anyone alive
was even impacted by it...

Hey, let's not stop there, the Germans inflicted millions upon millions of
deaths and damage to Europe and USA ... Not once, but twice.. Not
even mentioning the Japanese destruction of Pearl Harbor... 
The Russians have had several hostile takeovers of their own
country, don't forget the Chinese and the Sumatran's, or the
whole middle East for that matter ... 

We cannot pay for the world's mistakes throughout history, we can only 
move past it, understand what actually happened and assure 
it will not be repeated ...

I owe no one for history's past tragedy's ..

Ice