He certainly did not act alone, he was acting as part of a mob
The mob was formed spontaneously after the video of Officer Chauvin murdering George Floyd went viral. Martin J. Engelhart committed crimes away from the protests because that is what criminals do sometimes simultaneous with other criminals who do so because they realize that peaceful protests require a large presence by local police specifically when not planned in advance.
Where is your case that Engelhart was in fact looting and physically assaulting people by invitation and coordination in some nationwide movement for BLM or DNC leadership to “attack the nation” and violently overthrow the Trump Administration by stealing footwear on the same night George Floyd was murdered by cop?
As usual you did not respond to my question and explanation.
The January 6 attack on our democracy was planned snd attempted to be carried out by the most powerful man on earth who is butthurt because he lost re-election.
Two days later, on Nov. 7, Rhodes sent a similar message calling for an action at the Capitol: “[W]e must now do what the people of Serbia did when Milosevic stole their election. – Refuse to accept it and march en-mass on the nation’s Capitol.”
There is no equivalence between Engelhart and Stuart Rhodes planned attack on our nation for DJT that began planning on November 7 2020 because Biden won and DJT lost. No evidence of fraud.
Will you join Rhodes if and when he gets out of prison even though he will never be a law abiding citizen with a gun ever again .
We’re going to defend the president, the duly elected president” — by whom he meant Trump — “and we call on him to do what needs to be done to save our country,” Rhodes allegedly said. “Because if you don’t guys, you’re going to be in a bloody, bloody civil war, and a bloody — you can call it an insurrection or you can call it a war or fight.”
By Dec. 31st, that indictment states, Rhodes had joined a private group text on Signal titled “DC OP: Jan 6 21.” The indictment describes Rhodes as hand-picking a top deputy, known as “
PERSON TEN,” to be the “operations leader” for the group on Jan. 6. The indictment also alleges Rhodes put up money for hotel rooms for himself and “PERSON TEN” at the Hilton Garden Inn in Vienna, Virginia. And it describes how, on the day of the insurrection, Rhodes was in constant contact, via text and phone call, with people named in the alleged conspiracy.
For example, Rhodes texted the group chat at 1:25 p.m. remarking: “Pence is doing nothing. As I predicted.” And then again at 1:40 p.m. he wrote: “All I see Trump doing is complaining. I see no intent by him to do anything. So the patriots are taking it into their own hands. They’ve had enough.” Minutes later Rhodes texted that he was on his way to the Capitol.
The new indictment released Thursday offers fresh details of Rhodes’ involvement in the alleged plot:
It records a Signal message Rhodes sent two days after the election calling on his followers to refuse to accept the result: “We aren’t getting through this without a civil war. Too late for that. Prepare your mind, body, spirit.”
Two days later, on Nov. 7, Rhodes sent a similar message calling for an action at the Capitol: “[W]e must now do what the people of Serbia did when Milosevic stole their election. – Refuse to accept it and march en-mass on the nation’s Capitol.”