r/CapitolConsequences • u/Jordan_WUSA9 Verified Journalist • Dec 21 '22
Texas man who attempted to cut power to Capitol convicted on all counts CONVICTION
https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/texas-man-who-attempted-to-cut-power-to-capitol-convicted-on-all-counts-christopher-ray-grider-ashli-babbitt-speakers-lobby/65-afd4b009-16f4-41c9-9209-4c3bd29d007b144
u/RichardBonham Dec 22 '22
Texas knows a thing or two about cutting off power.
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u/markodochartaigh1 Dec 22 '22
I grew up a half century ago in Amarillo. One of my junior high classmates was killed when he cut into electrical wires trying to sell copper to buy drugs, he would most likely have been maga if he had lived. 90+% of White males there voted for Trump. At least a quarter of my high school class didn't live to 65.
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Dec 22 '22
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u/tomcatx2 Dec 22 '22
I hope ted cruz brought flip flops to wherever he’s going. Might as well be comfortable while ignoring another cold snap.
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Dec 22 '22
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u/HotPinkLollyWimple Hide the ketchup Dec 22 '22
Didn’t he blame his daughter for his escape to warmer climes?
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u/BabyNapsDaddyGames Dec 22 '22
Yes, he threw his kids under the bus when was called out on his bullshit.
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Dec 22 '22 edited Jul 16 '23
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u/HotPinkLollyWimple Hide the ketchup Dec 22 '22
Don’t feel bad, he’s a Deplorable and deserves all the hate we can muster.
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Dec 22 '22
Leaving his little dog behind to freeze to death.
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u/kat-deville Dec 22 '22
He's one of the biggest pieces of shit we've had in Texas, and that's saying a LOT. His level of cruelty demands retribution from the universe. If his wife ever gets tired of his shit and goes full Lorena Bobbitt on his ass, I'll do a few shots in her honour.
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Dec 22 '22
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u/kat-deville Dec 22 '22
I haven't seen her with him in a while, but she seemed to be more like definitely not his type, but needed to flee her family. No sign of botox then. I am hesitant to look up if the dog is okay. I'm a hard-core dog person and with him treating his daughter the way he has, if the dog was hurt or died, I'd be on a list of people being watched.
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u/getouttathatpie Dec 22 '22
Some of The kids in my grandson's elementary school are terrified, they hear " deep freeze" and think they are going to have to live in tents inside the house and go to the bathroom in a hole outside for a week again.
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u/markevens Dec 22 '22
Plead guilty to count 4, but found guilty on all 8 counts.
- Obstructing Officers During a Civil Disorder
- Obstruction of an Official Proceeding
- Injuring, Damaging, or Destroying Government Property and Aiding and Abetting
- Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building (plead guilty to this one)
- Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building
- Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building
- Violent Entry and Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building
- Act of Physical Violence in a Capitol Building
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u/blueprint0411 Dec 22 '22
One of the charges he was convicted of is bashing the door right before Ashlii Babbit was shot which he brageed about - while doing absolutely nothing to help her after she was shot. I'm often sceptical of the overuse of felony murder in criminal cases, but I have a hard time seeing how this isn't felony murder in this case. If he and Babbit were trying to break into a private house and she was shot and killed he would be liable to be charged for felony murder. How is this any different?
Regardless I hope he gets the max
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u/earthforce_1 Dec 22 '22
She was in the Air Force before. She should have known what would happen if a mob tried to force their way into a highly sensitive secure area. I'm actually surprised the capital police didn't use machine guns when it came to defending the seat of government from a violent insurrection.
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u/SassTheFash Comet Adrenochrome Pizza Dec 22 '22
Not just AF, AF Security Forces. Like she's exactly the kind of person who should know what happens when you try to break into a secured area.
She would absolutely have fired on a mob of protesters she was protecting while serving.
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u/Laeyra Dec 22 '22
Someone told me once that Grider used to be military police, but I don't know how they would know that, or how to check that myself.
Either way, what struck me was his callousness towards someone who was on his side, a sister-in-arms. Babbitt gets shot and instead of doing anything to help, he stood over her snapping photos or video of her dying. That's just cold.
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u/buffyfan12 Light Bringer Dec 22 '22
1- You can FOIA his records.
2-Babbitt was not exactly a star military asset.
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u/buffyfan12 Light Bringer Dec 22 '22
I am happy they did not since that was the entire plan: machine guns in the capitol and the steps making a bloody mess that they could use to execute their power grab.
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u/MuuaadDib Dec 22 '22
I believe what he is saying is you are a murderer if someone dies while committing a crime. If the police run over a citizen chasing you, that is your fault.
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u/SillyWhabbit Dec 22 '22
And I still wish they would catch the bomber.
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u/gdsmithtx Dec 22 '22
All they have to do is follow the distinctive 3-toed footprints right to her .....
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u/Nebula924 Dec 21 '22
Access to the article denied in the EU. Can someone please recap?
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u/StragglingShadow Dec 21 '22
WASHINGTON — A Texas man who attempted to cut power to the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6 was found guilty Wednesday of seven criminal counts by a D.C. judge.
Christopher Ray Grider waived his right to a jury and instead sat for a bench trial before U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. Grider was arrested last January and indicted on eight counts, including three felony counts of civil disorder, obstruction of an official proceeding and destruction of government property in excess of $1,000. Before trial began, Grider pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of entering and remaining in a restricted building and parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.
According to a probable cause affidavit filed last year, Grider told a reporter during an interview with KWTX in Waco, Texas, that he’d been inside the Capitol and had been just feet away from U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt when she was fatally shot while climbing through a window of a door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby. Grider was ultimately charged, and convicted, of assisting other rioters in damaging that door prior to Babbitt’s attempt to climb through.
Before even entering the building, however, Kollar-Kotelly found Grider had committed criminal offenses. In a filing explaining her ruling Wednesday, the judge said prosecutors had proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Grider had dismantled a police barricade and turned it into a ladder that he and other rioters used to climb onto a stone railing. Prosecutors also proved he’d picked up a black U.S. Capitol Police rioter helmet which he later offered up to another rioter to use to damage the Speaker’s Lobby door windows.
According to Kollar-Kotelly’s ruling, Grider then entered the building through the Upper West Front Doors shortly after the first breach and attempted, unsuccessfully, to cut power to the building through an exposed circuit box.
Even after Babbitt’s shooting, the judge said, Grider remained near the Speaker’s Lobby door for several more minutes. He was one of the final rioters near the door who were forcibly removed by armored DC Police officers.
Grider took the stand in his own defense during trial and claimed his only purpose for being inside the Capitol was to “watch historic events unfold,” according to Kollar-Kotelly’s findings of facts. He also said he was trying to enter the House Chamber because he thought it was the Senate Gallery and he wanted to watch the proceedings.
“For a variety of reasons, the Court does not find these accounts credible,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote.
More than 900 people have now been criminally charged in connection with the Capitol riot, including more than 500 who have pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial. It was unclear Wednesday whether a sentencing date had yet been set for Grider
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u/Bent_Brewer Dec 22 '22
Grider took the stand in his own defense during trial and claimed his only purpose for being inside the Capitol was to “watch historic events unfold,” according to Kollar-Kotelly’s findings of facts. He also said he was trying to enter the House Chamber because he thought it was the Senate Gallery and he wanted to watch the proceedings.
Lying. Sack. Of shit.
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u/SoldMySoulForHairDye Dec 22 '22
“For a variety of reasons, the Court does not find these accounts credible,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote.
This is polite courtroom speak for, "PFFFFTTTT YEAH FUCKEN RIGHT."
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u/kazejin05 Dec 22 '22
For a variety of reasons, the Court does not find these accounts credible
Ell. Oh. Fucking. Ell. Gee, I wonder why?
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u/robreddity Dec 22 '22
So long Christopher Ray Grider, you fucking felon, you tiny, insignificant un-American piece of repeating shit.
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u/TheoBoy007 Dec 22 '22
Grider took the stand in his own defense during trial and claimed his only purpose for being inside the Capitol was to “watch historic events unfold,” according to Kollar-Kotelly’s findings of facts. He also said he was trying to enter the House Chamber because he thought it was the Senate Gallery and he wanted to watch the proceedings.
“For a variety of reasons, the Court does not find these accounts credible,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote.
Guilty of multiple felonies via a bench trial. That ought to lock him up for a while. Good!
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u/ZootOfCastleAnthrax Dec 22 '22
Can you imagine the terror and tears of all those traitors in total darkness? They'd end up turning on each other if they couldn't find the door.
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u/DionysiusRedivivus Dec 22 '22
I’d be happier if everyone who breached the barricades was charged with felony murder. Same as if they were the getaway driver for a bank robber who fatally shot a teller. Unfortunately neo-confederate and theocratic insurrection doesn’t get “Texas justice.”
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u/jaguarthrone Dec 21 '22
Over 900 arrests...500 convictions...cleaning up the foot soldiers....I just read the latest FBI estimate of 2000 intruders in the Capitol...