Chris Joyner
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta, GA, United States
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Three Jan. 6 cases with Georgia defendants head to trial in 2023
Georgians or those with ties to the state facing some of the most serious Jan. 6 charges are scheduled to go to trial in 2023. They include Bruno Cua of Milton, Ga. and William McCall Calhoun of Americus as well as Eric Munchel, who lives in Nashville but grew up in Georgia, and his mother, Woodstock resident Lisa Marie Eisenhart. → Read More
Coweta fire department dogged by race issues
When news broke last week that a member of the Coweta County Fire Department’s 2022 recruit class had ties to a white supremacist organization, it was like the final piece of a puzzle fell into place for several of the department’s Black employees, according to interviews and records reviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. → Read More
Republican county chairwoman, husband plead guilty in Jan. 6 charge
The chairwoman of the Taylor County Republican Party Mandy Robinson-Hand and her husband, Charles Hand III, have pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge related to their participation in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. → Read More
Feds investigating Black Hammer Party in wide-ranging criminal probe
Feds investigating Black Hammer Party in wide-ranging criminal probe → Read More
‘I could die any second’
‘I could die any second’: 911 call, court records tell a harrowing story about Black Hammer standoff in Georgia → Read More
Atlanta group implicated in Russian influence scheme
The Black Hammer Party, an Atlanta-based radical group with a cult flavor, is implicated in a Justice Department indictment as part of a Russian influence scheme to sow discord in the United States. → Read More
GBI releases new video of Georgia Guidestones bombing
Video of Georgia Guidestones shows figure leaving object at the monument just before the explosion. → Read More
Gwinnett County man sentenced in Jan. 6 charge
Jonathan Davis Laurens, a Gwinnett County resident, was sentenced Friday on a misdemeanor count related to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot. → Read More
Athens man sentenced in Jan. 6 case
Athens resident Nolan Kidd was sentenced Monday in U.S District Court in Washington, D.C., on a misdemeanor charge related to his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot. → Read More
Georgia Oath Keeper pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 case
Georgia Oath Keeper Brian Ulrich pleads guilty to seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 case → Read More
Report: Antisemitic incidents in Georgia more than doubled in 2021
Antisemitic incidents in Georgia rose 133% in 2021 compared to the prior year, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Anti-Defamation League. → Read More
SPLC report claims extremists now in political mainstream
Southern Poverty Law Center report claims extremists now in political mainstream, cites response to Jan. 6 Capitol riot as evidence. → Read More
Georgian Nolan Harold Kidd pleads to Jan. 6 charge
Georgian Nolan Harold Kidd pleads to Jan. 6 charge → Read More
Americus attorney keeps working while facing Jan. 6 charges in D.C.
Attorney William McCall Calhoun Jr., one of the more than 725 people criminally charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot, has continued to work as a criminal defense attorney in the southwest Georgia community of Americus. → Read More
Hundreds of Confederate memorials persist in Georgia, report says
Some 285 markers, memorials and places are named for the Confederacy across Georgia, according to a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Alabama-based watchdog Tuesday released its third edition of its census of more than 2,000 Confederate memorials with a renewed call they be removed. → Read More
Decatur man pleads to Jan. 6 charge, but gun charges loom
Matthew J. Webler, a contractor from Decatur, Georgia will serve up to six months in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, but faces a much longer sentence for what authorities discovered when they arrested him. → Read More
East Georgia woman pleads guilty in Jan. 6 charge
“I’ve been tear-gassed three times,” McDonald said in one video taken inside the Capitol. “Three times.” “Me too,” a male voice replied. “But we broke, we broke through.” Outside the Capitol, they told an independent video journalist the protest was peaceful, omitting the part about the gassing and the breached barricades. “They were so nice to us,” McDonald told the Young Patriot Society in a… → Read More
Georgia’s Jan. 6 defendants: Where are they now?
Sixteen Georgia residents are among more than 700 people criminally charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Four have pleaded guilty, while judicial proceedings for others may stretch well into 2022. → Read More
Jan. 6 riot ‘not patriotism’ judge says in sentencing Ga. man
A Georgia man who drove to D.C. with weapons and threatened to kill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been sentenced to two years in federal prison. His mother alerted authorities to the threat. → Read More
Gainesville man arrested in Jan. 6 Capitol riot
In the continuing investigation into the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot, the FBI Friday arrested another suspect with Georgia ties after investigators discovered text messages between him and a leader of the Proud Boys. → Read More