Wed Sep 20, 2023 – 1:10 pm EDTWed Sep 20, 2023 – 2:07 pm EDT
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(WND News Center) — Ray Epps, the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protester who was cast as a provocateur by multiple commentators because he was on video urging the crowd to break into the Capitol, yet was not charged, now has been charged.
With a misdemeanor.
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As more than 1,000 people who sometimes did not do even as Epps had, urging the crowd to violate the Capitol, were charged, sometimes with felonies, he remained without a court date. There have been cases against people who were not even in Washington that day.
And that very circumstance caused some to claim he was there to provoke the crowd into doing the things it should not.
The Washington Examiner reported Epps “became the focus of online theories about the government plotting the incident,” and now has been accused of disorderly conduct.
He previously filed a defamation claim against Fox News and Tucker Carlson, who then was a host for the
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