The rally, titled Justice for J6, aims to defend the nearly 600 insurrectionists who were charged in connection with the deadly 6 January Capitol attack this year. Police who searched the vehicle said they had not found a bomb but had collected possible bomb-making materials.Ĭraighead’s arrest also comes as law enforcement officials prepare for potential unrest and violence during a rightwing rally on Saturday. Monday’s incident comes less than a month after a North Carolina man who claimed to have a bomb in a pickup truck near the Capitol surrendered to law enforcement after an hours-long standoff. “We applaud the officers’ keen observation and the teamwork that resulted in this arrest.”
“This is good police work, plain and simple,” said the Capitol police chief, Tom Manger. “Craighead said he was ‘on patrol’ and began talking about white supremacist ideology and other rhetoric pertaining to white supremacy,” according to a press release by the Capitol police. Bayonets and machetes are illegal in Washington DC, according to police. The owner of the truck was identified as 44-year old Donald Craighead of Oceanside, California.
The truck also had antlers attached to its front grill.
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According to pictures released by the police, the truck did not have a license plate but instead a picture of an American flag. Patrol officers noticed a Dodge Dakota pickup truck that bore a swastika and had other white supremacist symbols painted on it around midnight on Sunday. US Capitol police arrested a man who had multiple knives, including a bayonet and a machete, in his truck near the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington DC on Monday.
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