Journalist Steve Baker of Blaze Media was arrested by the FBI and brought to a federal courthouse in Texas while wearing foot shackles, a belly chain, and handcuffs. He is charged with four nonviolent misdemeanors for his attendance in the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Baker turned himself in to the FBI field office in Dallas on March 1 at 7 a.m. He was escorted by defense attorneys Edward Tarpley Jr. and James Lee Bright.
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Donning a suit, Baker wore a button on his lapel that had an FBI badge reversed, signifying “the Suspendables,” a group of FBI informants that included Kyle Seraphin, Steve Friend, and Garret O’Boyle. Baker chose to wear formal clothes instead of the FBI’s recommended casual outfit of shorts and sandals.
In order to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Clinton Averitte, Baker was brought in handcuffs out of the FBI building and escorted to the Earle Cabell Federal facility and United States Courthouse. The United States Marshals received him.
Breanna Morello said that Baker was required to remove his tie and shoelaces, give a sample of his DNA to the police, and report to supervised release his location at all times.
Baker was charged with disorderly and disruptive behavior in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct in a Capitol building, parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building, and knowing entry and stay in a restricted building or grounds without authorization in a criminal complaint filed in Washington, D.C.
“I had to march in, in front of everybody with leg chains on,” To The Epoch Times, Baker said. “That was not my favorite moment in life. Just a deliberate humiliation. It was something they didn’t have to do.”
Baker saw that Judge Averitte was being joined by another non-January 6 criminal defendant as she entered the courtroom while wearing leg and belly chains. Remarkably, this person was free of leg shackles and handcuffs.
“Absolutely, stunningly ridiculous on misdemeanor charges,” In reaction to a video showing Baker being taken away, William Shipley, the head of Baker’s six-attorney legal team, remarked.
“I could not get an explanation for why it was necessary for Steve to go to the FBI,” he added. “We considered defying that demand and have him simply appear at the courthouse and go to the U.S. Marshal’s Office for processing.”
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