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Feds Bust Capitol Rioter Who Allegedly Kicked TV Crewman in Butt<!-- wp:html --><p>U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia</p> <p>A Texas senior citizen seen on video assaulting a local newscaster during the Jan. 6 <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/united-states-capitol">Capitol</a> riot was finally identified by the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/fbi">FBI</a> thanks to three neighbors, a local defense attorney, and a “distinctive” cellphone case portraying—utterly absurdly—a chiseled <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/donald-j-trump">Donald Trump</a> as an in-his-prime Rocky Balboa.</p> <p>That’s <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24199539-dana-bell">according to a federal complaint unsealed Thursday</a>, following Dana Jean Bell’s arrest earlier in the day by FBI agents in the Dallas suburb of Princeton. Bell, 65, also attacked a second member of the news media who tried to intervene, and actively resisted police officers while calling one of them a “fucking pussy traitor,” the complaint alleges.</p> <p>Bell is now facing two felony counts stemming from her alleged participation in the failed insurrection: assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder, plus a slew of misdemeanors, including 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 the Capitol grounds or buildings; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/feds-bust-capitol-rioter-who-allegedly-kicked-tv-news-crew-member-in-butt">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

A Texas senior citizen seen on video assaulting a local newscaster during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot was finally identified by the FBI thanks to three neighbors, a local defense attorney, and a “distinctive” cellphone case portraying—utterly absurdly—a chiseled Donald Trump as an in-his-prime Rocky Balboa.

That’s according to a federal complaint unsealed Thursday, following Dana Jean Bell’s arrest earlier in the day by FBI agents in the Dallas suburb of Princeton. Bell, 65, also attacked a second member of the news media who tried to intervene, and actively resisted police officers while calling one of them a “fucking pussy traitor,” the complaint alleges.

Bell is now facing two felony counts stemming from her alleged participation in the failed insurrection: assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder, plus a slew of misdemeanors, including 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 the Capitol grounds or buildings; and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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