Taake had been on pretrial release for a pending child-solicitation case in Texas when he went to the Capitol ready for violence, armed with bear spray and a metal whip, prosecutors said. He sprayed officers trying to hold the line with “bear-attack repellent spray” four times. He attacked an officer with a metal whip and threw a water bottle at the police line before scaling a wall, authorities said. He entered the Capitol through the Senate Wing Door soon after its initial breach and wandered around the building for 20 minutes, brandishing his metal whip, prosecutors said.
Dude is a real winner.
What an absolute psychopath
he has “taken to using violence against other inmates to relieve his frustrations with his self-inflicted predicament.”
Oh yes
#JustConservativeThings
The “haywire” has nothing to do with the solicitation.
The judge decided to tack on a modifier to increase the sentencing. It should be noted that a metal whip is a short length of a heavy twisted steel cable.
It’s not exceptionally flexible- but it’s flexible enough you can preload it and that it’ll also hit across more of its length than a baton.
