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Capitol Insurrection
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Exclusive Video: Watch Roger Stones Oath Keeper Bodyguards Practice Headshots to #Stopantifa
Prosecutors are scrutinizing training that the Capitol attackers performed at Florida shooting ranges.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/03/exclusive-video-roger-stone-oath-keeper-bodyguards-training-stopantifa/
Dan Friedman Mark Helenowski
Federal prosecutors have charged 10 members of the far-right Oath Keepers with conspiring to storm the US Capitol on January 6 and allege that militia members prepared for the operation by attending or scheduling trainings to learn paramilitary combat tactics. Video and images reviewed by Mother Jones show that three of the indicted Oath Keepers attended two gunfight-oriented training sessions last fall at the Ares Firearms Training Facility in Leesburg, Florida.
Prosecutors have not cited these specific trainings, held before Election Day, on September 20 and October 25, in documents charging Oath Keepers. But the sessions are notable. In the first, an instructor coached the three militia members and others on how to drop adversaries by shooting them in the heart, lungs, or head. The instructor, a Florida resident named Andrew Smrecek, who describes himself as a former Marine Corps rifleman, posted the video and images from this training online with hashtags that include #stopantifa, #stopcommunism, and #giveviolenceachance. Members of the group at the training, including Smrecek, later acted as security guards for Roger Stone at stop the steal events where the longtime Trump adviser claimed Donald Trump had been cheated out of an election win in November and urged Americans to fight to keep Trump in office.
In a video from the September 20 session, Smrecek wears a shirt from a company he runs called Combat Art Training with the slogan Keep Fighting Communism on the back. He instructs the group of six on how to shoot foes to stop a threat and suggests aiming at the collar line in hopes of hitting the heart or lungs to create massive hemorrhaging or a sucking chest wound. He also tells trainees to think about a headshot at close range and to aim in between the eyes [at] the squishy stuff.
Thats where the rounds are gonna penetrate the best, Smrecek says. Thats where were gonna end up hitting the brain stem. And theyll drop. Theyll just drop...........................................
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Kelly Meggs, the leader of the Oath Keepers' Florida chapter, stands guard during a rally in front of the US Supreme Court on January 5, 2021.Mother Jones
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Exclusive Video: Watch Roger Stone's Oath Keeper Bodyguards Practice Headshots to "#Stopantifa" (Original Post)
riversedge
Mar 2021
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EarlG
(21,974 posts)1. Remember those old Al Qaeda training videos
the media used to play on a loop in the early to mid 2000s?
Thats basically these guys now.