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TexasTowelie

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Thu Jan 14, 2021, 06:18 PM Jan 2021

Ohio bartender and her 'militia' drove to D.C. to join the Capitol breach [View all]

A Champaign County bartender who runs a self-identified militia, joined by three others in her unit, drove to Washington D.C. last week to join what descended into a seditious mob invasion of the U.S. Capitol.

Jessica Watkins, 38, a bartender, said she doesn’t consider herself as having committed a crime — she said she didn’t destroy any property or tussle with any police officers.

While she and one other man in her unit roamed hallways around the U.S. Senate (she said the two others are elderly and stayed outside), they made active efforts to stop any property destruction.

“It still staggers my imagination that it went down the way it did,” she said. “I don’t want to call it a false flag, but it was some people hijacking what started off as a peaceful movement.”

Read more: https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2021/01/13/ohio-bartender-and-her-militia-drove-to-d-c-to-join-the-capitol-breach/

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