Daily News | Scott Perry, Philly Proud Boys, and more: Pa. had a starring role in the first Jan. 6 committee hearing
— showed him storming up to Edwards, raising his fists, and turning his red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap backward as if, prosecutors have said, he was preparing for a fight. He heaved a bike rack on top of Edwards, causing her to fall and hit her head on concrete.
Samsel has pleaded not guilty and is awaiting trial on counts including assaulting officers, civil disorder, and violent conduct on Capitol grounds. He remains in custody and maintains he accidentally knocked Edwards down. The committee played footage he shot of a meeting between Tarrio, the Proud Boys leader, and Stewart Rhodes, head of the militant far-right group the Oathkeepers, in an underground parking garage on Jan. 5 — somethingOne of the other attendees of that meeting — Joshua Macias, cofounder of the group Vets for Trump — has a surprising Philadelphia connection.
Macias was released in late November of 2020 and was out on bail at the time he participated in the meeting with Rhodes and Tarrio in Washington. Macias has not been charged with playing a role in the insurrection, and there is no evidence that he entered the Capitol building on Jan. 6. His attorney, William J. Brennan, has downplayed his client’s role in the riot.
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