A self-described hardcore leftist was arrested on Friday for allegedly calling for weapons to recruit like-minded people to assist him in confronting Trump supporters violently, which is expected Sunday, some days, will meet at the Capitol in Florida in Tallahassee. before the presidential inauguration.
Daniel Alan Baker – a suspected Antifa supporter who took part in several protests against police across the country last year, including in Seattle’s CHOP / CHAZ zone – was arrested “without incident” by FBI agents early Friday. taken with the assistance of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. and the Tallahassee Police Station.
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Baker, who was kicked out of the military by prosecutors and was homeless in the Tallahassee area for several years before choosing to fight with a U.S. terrorist group in Syria, is now being charged with violating a federal law that makes it an offense “send in interstate or foreign trade any communication that contains any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another.”
He appeared before Magistrate Judge Charles A. Stampelos on Friday and is expected to remain in a federal detention center in Tallahassee until his next court appearance is scheduled for January 21, reports the Tallahassee Democrat.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Saturday granted the request of Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey to bring in the national guard to help protect the state Capitol. It comes as an internal memorandum from the FBI warning of possible armed protests at the Capitol buildings in all 50 states in the days leading up to the inauguration. Tallahassee City Hall and the Leon County Courthouse will be closed earlier this week.
In the social media posts that have increased in recent months, Baker, 33, sought to recruit and train others to advance his ideology against violent extremism against the government or anti-government, and he made violent threats for those who, according to him, are white supremacists. , fascists and American citizens and allies with ideologies other than his, and promoted the assassination of U.S. military officers, according to a criminal complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida.
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More recently, he posted that people need to prepare for another civil war. Under a local article on the news station reporting on Tallahassee Police’s preparations for Inauguration Day, Baker shared a pamphlet on January 14th entitled “Call to Arms January 20th !!” who instructed others to surround with him any protesters and restrict them with firearms at the state Capitol complex in Tallahassee.
“This is an armed COUP and can only be stopped by an armed community!” according to the criminal complaint, the brochure posted by Baker posted. “If you’re afraid to fight the enemy, stay in bed and live.”
He also posted a YouTube video of himself printing the leaflets. The criminal complaint refers to Google searches that Baker did, in which the Tallahassee Police Department, the Florida Highway Patrol and the Leon County Sheriff’s Office were shown the sworn police officers.
Baker can be seen on photos and YouTube videos with ‘anarchist monologues’ playing in the background, alongside Antifa flags and a variety of firearms, including those with tall magazines. In the last 24-48 hours before his arrest on Friday, posts on social media showed Baker actively trying to acquire additional firearms, including an AK-47 and a handgun, prosecutors said.
“Extremists targeted at violence from both sides of the political and social spectrum must be stopped, and they will be stopped,” U.S. Attorney Lawrence Keefe said in a statement. “The diligent work in this case by the FBI and other public security organizations has averted a crisis with this arrest, and we will not stop our efforts to track down anyone else who intends to incite or commit violence. , to deter and disrupt. “
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The old Florida State Capitol building, seen from Monroe St. and Apalachee Parkway with the New Capitol in the background in Tallahassee. The FBI spoke to local and state law enforcement agencies on Wednesday about possible protests on Sunday.
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“While extremists who plan chaos can hide in the shadows, it is important that we force them into the light and bring them to justice,” Keefe added. “This arrest serves as a message to anyone who intends to incite or commit violence in the Northern District of Florida: if you represent a threat to public safety, we will come to you, we will find and you will be persecuted. “
Baker was temporarily banned from Facebook after the riot at the US Capitol. On January 12, Baker said the ban had been lifted, adding: “The death of America, of course, for the president, current and elected.”
He allegedly made several reports on social media offering monetary rewards to anyone who would help him identify and hunt down those seen on videos and videos of Trump’s mostly rioters building the U.S. Capitol on January 6. in Washington, DC, stormed. rewards offered to all who helped identify U.S. Capitol police officers, who he said were seen as protesters allowed by barricades.
“There will be no confidence in law enforcement until every section is closed and replaced with new faces,” Baker said in a January 8 YouTube video. ‘You’ll better hope the cops find you before we believe in torturing prisoners for information. You better turn around if we do not want to involve the police. ‘
After about a year in the U.S. military, Baker received a “non-honorable” dismissal in 2007 after receiving AWOL before deploying his unit to Iraq, according to the criminal charge. He was homeless for almost a decade and lives mostly in the Tallahassee area, and in 2017 Baker joined the People’s Protection Units (YPG), a group fighting in Syria against ISIS and the Turkish government.
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He claimed on social media that he was a trained sniper for the YPG, and he could be seen in a documentary fighting ISIS and Turkish militants, prosecutors said. YPG is a sub-subsidiary of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which is designated by the US government as a foreign terrorist organization.
Baker appears in an article published in October 2020 about the downfall of the CHOP, in which he identifies himself as a ‘hardcore leftist’, the criminal charge said. He travels the country to protest “police brutality and the destruction of America” and takes part in street demonstrations in Seattle and Nashville.