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Olympic gold medalist Klete Keller charged for role in Capitol riot
NY Post ^ | January 13, 2021 | Ben Feuerherd and Tamar Lapin

Posted on 01/13/2021 6:57:36 PM PST by conservative98

Former Olympic swimming gold medalist Klete Keller was hit with federal charges Wednesday for his role in last week’s US Capitol riot — after he was caught on footage wearing his Team USA jacket at the siege, according to new court papers.

A criminal complaint filed Washington D.C. federal court charges Keller, 38, with obstructing law enforcement during civil disorder, knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

The two-time gold medal winner was allegedly spotted in a video from inside the Capitol Rotunda posted last Wednesday by a reporter for the conservative news outlet Townhall.

The FBI confirmed reporting from swimming website SwimSwam that identified Keller as a bearded man seen in the clip wearing a Team USA Olympic jacket, the complaint states.

“PERSON 1 can be seen standing in the Rotunda still wearing the dark-colored USA jacket, which also appears to bear a Nike logo on the front right side and a red and white Olympic patch on the front left side,” an FBI agent wrote in court docs filed Wednesday.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: arrest; capitolriot; christopherwray; deepstate; fakenews; fbi; kletekeller; olympicmedalist; olympics; peaceful; standing; swimmer; swimming; townhall
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To: kiryandil

Ha..great


41 posted on 01/13/2021 8:22:02 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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To: Meatspace
Isn't Townhall mostly the neocon crowd? I don't really pay attention to it much these days, but in the past it seemed like their conservative credentials were iffy.
42 posted on 01/13/2021 9:16:22 PM PST by Major Matt Mason
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To: Meatspace

That very well be the case, but it’s going to cost these folks tens of thousands of dollars to explain that to the federal prosecutor and the judge.

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I agree...

I think that many people would just pay fine and get probation...No jail time...

They still have to pay for the lawyers to get such deals...


43 posted on 01/13/2021 11:40:30 PM PST by L.A.Justice ( )
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To: El Cid

Good point. However, FR is not a debate club for leftist points of view. Jim Robinson has made that quite clear.


44 posted on 01/14/2021 6:36:00 AM PST by ohioman
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