‘Here in America, We Fight Back’: Formally Dressed Man Dubbed ‘SUITMACER’ Charged with Spraying Police During Capitol Siege

A formally dressed New York man dubbed “#SUITMACER” by Reddit sleuths sprayed chemical spray toward a group of police officers at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6th, federal prosecutors allege. According to the criminal complaint unsealed Friday in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., 26-year-old Edward Francisco Rodriguez of Brooklyn was among a group of rioters on the lower-level terrace of the west side of the U.S. Capitol that confronted a barricade of police officers trying to prevent group from getting to the Capitol building. As depicted in publicly available video, a man wearing a dark colored suit and tie and red and black “Trump” hat—whom authorities believe to be Rodriguez—made his way to the front of the crowd and then sprayed officers with a chemical irritant. Authorities were able to identify Rodriguez after a tipster notified the FBI about a video on the sub-Reddit “r/CapitolConsequences.” The first half of the video showed the then-unknown individual in the suit referred to only as #SUITMACER wearing a face mask and spraying police with a chemical irritant before retreating into the crowd using a “Stop the Steal” sign as a shield. The crowd erupts in cheer after the irritant is sprayed. But the second half of the video, filmed earlier in the day on Jan. 6, allegedly depicts Rodriguez giving an interview to an unidentified independent media outlet while wearing the same distinctive outfit, this time without the face mask.
During the interview, the man believed to be Rodriguez is holding a “Stop the Steal” sign as he appears to yell: “Here in America, we fight back.” “We will never surrender to dictatorship, corruption, communism, or socialism,” the man says. “We the people will never put up with their bullshit. Here in America, we fight.”

via msn: ‘Here in America, We Fight Back’: Formally Dressed Man Dubbed ‘SUITMACER’ Charged with Spraying Police During Capitol Siege