U.S. Naval Reserves Sailor Arrested for Storming Capitol With Proud Boys Pals
“It should have gotten to the point where Nancy Pelosi should have resigned out of fear for her life,” Hatchet Speed is said to have told an undercover fed.
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
A Petty Officer in the United States Naval Reserves has been arrested in Virginia after detailing to an undercover agent how he stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, with friends from the Proud Boys. Hatchet Speed, who was born Daniel Abraham Speed, unwittingly shared his exploits with an undercover FBI employee in March, court documents show. Speed told the fed that he had “made it to the Rotunda down below” and said that going to the Capitol was “always the plan” after then-President Donald Trump’s Ellipse speech. After expressing disappointment that more people hadn’t turned up to join the riot, Speed added that “it should have gotten to the point where Nancy Pelosi should have resigned out of fear for her life,” according to court documents.
NEW Jan. 6 arrest this morning in Virginia: Hatchet Speed, a Petty Officer in the US Naval Reserves. Told an FBI undercover employee going to the Capitol "was always the plan" and he went with friends who were members of the Proud Boys. https://t.co/zuGVpS0ntd pic.twitter.com/9rksdHsJQV
— Alex Mallin (@alex_mallin) June 23, 2022
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