The charges are: Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority Disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds Disorderly conduct in a capitol building Parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a capitol building Baker has since been released from a Texas federal courthouse.
After a brief conversation, Mr. Baker turned to a colleague at the table and said, "Well, it's happening." Mr. Baker is slated to appear at 10 a.m. on March 1 before a magistrate judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Dallas.
" Mr. Peterson said a simple review of the video shot by Mr. Baker at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 makes it clear that he was there as a journalist.
" Mr. Baker becomes the latest in a string of right-of-center journalists prosecuted for their presence at the Capitol on Jan. 6.
More recently, Mr. Baker reported that a plainclothes Capitol Police officer, not a passerby, discovered the pipe bomb at the Democratic National Committee offices on Jan. 6.
'Tell Him to Be Careful' There was no update after that until March 2023, when Mr. Baker was warned by a well-connected journalist that his online commentaries about the Oath Keepers case, Capitol Police, and other issues were chafing important people at the DOJ. "I got a call from another journalist who has a friendly source inside the Department of Justice there in D.C.," Baker told The Epoch Times.
Mr. Baker filmed the debut of a Metropolitan Police Department "hard squad" and the violence that broke out as the riot-gear-clad officers rolled and rumbled through the dense crowd just after 1 p.m. In August 2023, Mr. Baker received a subpoena for his Jan. 6 video, which he said was ironic since he offered the footage to the FBI in 2021.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/journalist-faces-arrest-4-charges-over-jan-6-presence-capitol
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