WASHINGTON — A live streamer who often participated in the Jan. 6 “Liberty Corner” protests in support of the defendants has been arrested on charges of the Capitol attack nearly two years after his arrest was made public by online “riot hunters” who were helping him. Hundreds were arrested on January 6.
David Valentine, known to online scouts as #YellowSizzler, was arrested in Wisconsin, according to court records. Valentine has often attended Freedom Corner, a nighttime demonstration in front of a prison in the nation’s capital, in support of the January 6 rioters that former President Donald Trump has called for in the past. According to a website associated with Sleuths, online “doomsday hunters” identified Valentine in 2022.
Authorities say Valentine was one of the protesters who pushed a giant metal-framed “Trump 2020” sign into a line of police officers, and he also cut some wires with a folding knife near the lower west tunnel, where the worst of the violence occurred. the day took place. He faces a misdemeanor charge as well as a felony civil violation.
Among the other “Freedom Corner” participants who were later charged for their activities on January 6. Tommy Tatum and Taylor Tarantoboth of whom were identified by NBC News as participants in the January 6 before they were arrested and charged. Taranto, who was arrested outside Obama’s home in Washington, is just one of them handful January 6 rioters are kept in the detention center.
More than 1,400 people have been charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol, and prosecutors have convicted more than 1,000 defendants. More than 560 defendants were sentenced to terms ranging from a few days behind bars to 22 years in federal prison.
Two weeks ago, one of the most violent January 6 rioters was David Dempsey He was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. Prosecutors said Dempsey repeatedly used “hands, feet, flagpoles, crutches, pepper spray, broken pieces of furniture and anything else he could get his hands on” to attack the officers. Dempsey after the verdict he called He went into “Freedom’s Corner” and predicted that Trump would win the November election and get him out of jail.
“Don’t mark too hard a man, because this sentence will only last six months,” Dempsey said. “And then we’re going to be driving our nuts in the forehead for four years because Donald Trump is going to win, and he’s not just going to win, but he’s not just going to win…,” Dempsey said before breaking his Trump impression.
There are some officials who were harassed on January 6 supporting Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign, with former Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell speaks during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week.