No. of Recommendations: 11
Dana Jean Bell, 65, of Princeton, Texas, was charged today in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with felony offenses of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder on January 6, 2020. In addition to the felonies, Bell is charged with multiple misdemeanor offenses.
Bell is seen in open-source video posted to social media assaulting a member of the local D.C. media, among an angry group of rioters who yelled at members of the media and called them "traitors" and "fake news". I wonder who gave them that idea?
Bell appeared to assault one reporter and then assaulted a second member of the media who attempted to intervene. Bell then turned back to the first victim to kick her some more.
After the alleged assault, Bell made her way to the Capitol building itself and pushed her way to the Rotunda doors, which were being actively protected by law enforcement personnel. As law enforcement actively attempted to keep a door to the Capitol Building closed to prevent further breach, Bell attempted to pull that door open. Bell successfully entered the Capitol around 2:26 p.m., soon after the Rotunda Doors were first breached. In one open-source video, Bell appeared to celebrate her entry into the Capitol.
Bell then walked through the building, including the Rotunda, where she is seen on video taking pictures or videos with her cell phone. In another open-source video, within a minute of the rioters' attempted breach of the Speakers' Lobby, rather than heed officers' orders for the crowd to disperse and/or back up so they could render aid to an injured rioter, Bell instead approached the officers, and aggressively yelled at them, showing them her middle finger.
Bell is also seen on body-worn camera footage, where she acted aggressively and uttered threats or insulting language very close to officers' faces. At one point, she can be heard calling a police officer a "f— p— traitor," "p— traitor," and a "c—." Bell is also heard telling officers, "Do not touch me," while she resisted and/or pushed back against officers as she was forced to exit the Capitol. She is also heard telling a police officer, "y'all suck" while flipping her middle finger in the officer's face. The "p" and "c" words are obviously euphemisms for women's body parts.
Shortly thereafter, Bell grabbed an officer's baton and fought against officers while speaking aggressively toward them.
IOW, just regular touristy stuff done by, as Orange Jesus would say, a real patriot.
I believe this makes her the 1,230th individual charged in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on January 6.
If you're wonder how a 65-year-old woman committed these crime, there are actually photographs of her doing so, here:
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscour...https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/texas-woman-arr... 