This diary was previously published with a possibly inaccurate headline...
At this point I can’t tell if Matthew Jason Beddingfield was indeed “on bail for attempted murder” while participating in the insurrection or if he was on probation. The distinction matters a great deal.
I do know that he was labelled #NaziGrayHat after being photographed throwing a salute on January 6th and #SoggyKidInsider for his pathetic appearance upon exiting the US Capitol that day.
Department of Justice
Matthew Jason Beddingfield, 21, of Middlesex, North Carolina, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon or inflicting bodily injury, civil disorder, engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds, and related offenses. He was arrested in Smithfield, North Carolina, and will make his initial appearance tomorrow in the Eastern District of North Carolina.
According to court documents, on Jan. 6, at approximately 12:58 p.m., Beddingfield jumped over a barricade and charged towards a group of U.S. Capitol Police officers who were near the scaffolding that had previously been erected outside the southwest side of the building. A crowd surrounded the officers. At approximately 1:06 p.m., Beddingfield attacked the officers, jabbing at them with a metal flagpole he brought with him. Soon thereafter, he can be seen throwing a metal rod at law enforcement. He remained on the restricted grounds, moving about, before entering the Capitol at approximately 2:38 p.m. through a door on the Capitol’s Upper West Terrace.
Once inside the Capitol, Beddingfield made his way to the Great Rotunda before joining a group of rioters who attempted to storm the Senate Wing. He was towards the front of the rioters and once again, appeared to use his metal flagpole to strike or attempt to strike law enforcement officers. He and the other rioters returned to the Great Rotunda after a chemical irritant was deployed. He continued walking around the Capitol and entered the office of at least one Congressperson before finally leaving the Capitol at approximately 3:07. Beddingfield spent approximately 30 minutes inside the Capitol and about two hours on the restricted grounds.
He was originally charged with attempted murder back in December 2019 in North Carolina...
WNCN CBS 17
The 19-year-old man charged with shooting a teen in the head on Friday outside a Walmart in Smithfield appeared before a judge on Monday.
Matthew Beddingfield is facing a first-degree attempted murder charge. Prosecutors said Beddingfield shot a 17-year-old in the head.
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Police said he turned himself in the next morning.
Beddingfield’s father said his son was at Walmart with a friend, but couldn’t say if Matthew Beddingfield and the victim knew each other.
“They were in the back seat of his car and pulled guns on him. They took his money, pulled the console out of his car and exited the car and process of exciting the car one of them got shot,” continued Beddingfield
Just a month later, in January 2020 he was released on bail...
The Johnson County Report
A search warrant released this week has revealed new details in last month’s shooting at Walmart on North Brightleaf Boulevard in Smithfield.
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As part of their investigation, the warrant stated police interviewed a 17 year-old acquaintance of Beddingfield. The acquaintance admitted to smoking marijuana earlier in the day on December 13th with Beddingfield and the two went to Walmart to meet Garcia “to get more marijuana.” The acquaintance told police that Beddingfield carries a gun. After arriving at Walmart, the search warrant states an unknown male allegedly robbed the 17 year-old of his shoes and also took some items from Beddingfield. That’s when Beddingfield allegedly shot Hoctavio Garcia in the head.
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Beddingfield had been held in the Johnston County Jail under a $1 million bond since his Dec. 14th arrest. On January 2nd, he was released after his bond was lowered to $100,000.
If it wasn’t until August of 2021 that this piece of work plead guilty to lesser charges and received probation, then why weren’t these Capitol Riot accusations taken into consideration at sentencing?
Law & Crime
According to North Carolina court records reviewed by Law&Crime, Beddingfield pleaded guilty in August to one count of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting in serious injury. The attempted first-degree murder charge was dropped.
Beddingfield received a suspended sentence of 25 to 42 months behind bars, and he was placed on 24 months of probation.
According to court records, one of the conditions of Beddingfield’s probation is that he “[r]emain within his county of residence unless granted written permission to leave by the court of the defendant’s probation officer.
Law and Crime is a little vague in this excerpt, but their headline does use the word “bail” in reference to the Capitol Riot…
Back to what we do know… Despite his father’s best efforts to conceal the fact, Matthew’s participation in the insurrection was definitively proven by the Sedition Hunters using facial recognition software late last March...
Whether he violated bail or probation he should have been revoked soon after his violent participation in the Capitol Riot became public last Spring. Someone definitely dropped the ball here...
Huffington Post
Just over a year after Matthew Beddingfield was released from jail ahead of trial, a mob of insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol in support of outgoing President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
Jason Beddingfield was there on Jan. 6. “We are here to take this country back from those commie bastards,” Beddingfield, 52, wrote in a Facebook post that featured photos of the crowd in front of the Washington Monument for Trump’s speech.
Jason Beddingfield admits he made his way to the Capitol on Jan. 6. Videos discovered by citizen sleuths and by HuffPost show a man who looks identical to Jason Beddingfield hopping over barriers while holding a Trump flag and storming past bike racks moments after members of the mob ripped them down. At the same time, approaching the Capitol via a different path, a young man holding an American flag led a crowd and shouted at the police. Soon the young man was brawling with cops at the front of the police line. He later entered the Capitol building, and emerged from the Senate side after being pepper-sprayed.
The young man bore a striking resemblance to Jason Beddingfield’s son Matthew.
The FBI continues to seek the public’s assistance in identifying individuals who participated in unlawful conduct during the Capitol Insurrection. New images are added frequently...
If you have information about individuals who participated in unlawful actions at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, call 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) or leave a tip online at the FBI’s website.
If you just can’t get enough information about the terrorists who tried to usurp our democracy, then these links are for you...
Department of Justice Capitol Breach Cases
FBI US Capitol Violence Most Wanted
Insider Searchable Table
George Washington University Spreadsheet — Updated Daily
NPR — Updated Database
seditiontracker.com
ProPublica Capitol Riot videos lifted from Parler
KUMU — Capitol Riot Insurrectionist Networks
Just Security — January 6th Clearinghouse
The Trace — Capitol Riot Gun Arrests
USA Today January 6 Capitol Riot Arrests
I apologize and for any confusion my own confusion in this case may have caused or be causing… I’m going to keep working until I find answers though.
I don’t think I’ve ever edited a diary this much before… Again, I apologize.