FBI: Wixom Man Assaulted Capitol Cops During Insurrection Attempt

[James48]

Source: WHMI

A Wixom man is facing charges for allegedly assaulting police officers and others with a hockey stick during the riots at the U.S. Capitol.

29-year-old Michael Joseph Foy of Wixom is charged with five federal crimes in U.S. District Court in Detroit including assault and obstruction of law enforcement. The FBI says said he crawled through a broken window at the Capitol after police were assaulted during the riots January 6th. Several photos and videos allegedly showed Foy carrying a hockey stick and swinging it at people, including one person lying on the ground and a law enforcement official.

Foy is the second Michigan man to be charged in the Capitol violence. The FBI says a Facebook page belonging to Foy’s father, as well as a YouTube video, helped investigators identify Foy. He’s expected to appear in court again Monday for a detention hearing. The Detroit News reports that federal prosecutors are expected to produce body camera footage of the alleged assault and request Foy remain detained.

Foy is charged with forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating or interfering with any officer of the United States; obstruction of law enforcement; aiding and abetting; knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; and obstructing, impeding or influencing any official proceeding of Congress.

Read more: https://www.whmi.com/news/article/wixom-michael-foy-hockey-stick-capitol-assault

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Photographs at link- hitting police with a Trump flag draped hockey stick

[John Ludi]

1. I lived

in Wixom for a mercifully brief period...this does not surprise me.

[safeinOhio]

6. The Feds have a nice spot for him

just around the corner in Milan.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. The FBI - building back their mojo, rep, status and image.

The cores of our institutions are strong.

[marble falls]

3. Someone's getting some Federal time. It sounds like dad is a piece of work himself.

[gab13by13]

4. I saw the video of Foy,

smashing the officer with the hockey stick. He was swinging it full bore, the link here doesn't show the severity of the beating.

[dhill926]

11. it was terrifying and nauseating...

this asshole needs to go down HARD...

[SunSeeker]

14. Exactly. There should have been an attempted murder charge.

This was not merely "assault."

[MrScorpio]

5. A hockey stick...

You can't get more Pure Michigan Right Wing Nut Job than that.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. Here is the kicker on this guy

FBI arrests Wixom man accused of hockey stick assault at U.S. Capitol storming

Beth LeBlanc The Detroit News

Published 11:20 a.m. ET Jan. 21, 2021 | Updated 5:46 p.m. ET Jan. 21, 2021

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According to his LinkedIn page, Foy was a former member of the U.S. Marine Corps and worked for the U.S. Department of Defense from 2015 to 2019.

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https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/01/21/fbi-arrests-wixom-man-accused-hockey-stick-assault-u-s-capitol/4244145001/

[Nitram]

8. Fucking animal.

You can download the FBI pdf at the link above and enlarge the photos for a better view.

[iluvtennis]

9. Good - fkn loser. nt

[Canoe52]

10. Any estimate as to how many years he might be actually facing?

[greenjar_01]

12. His own father ended up getting him busted by bragging about his dumbshittery on Facebook

Idiots.

[SunSeeker]

13. Why no attempted murder charge?

Why the fuck didn't they throw the book at that animal? This was not merely trespass and assault. He swung the fucking hockey stick in full overhead swings straight down into an officer who was helplessly splayed down on the ground.