Militant from Seattle's 'autonomous zone' convicted of attempted attack on Trump supporters in Florida

[Valin]

The Post Millennial

A jury found Daniel Alan Baker of Tallahasee guilty on Thursday afternoon of attempting to rally activists to surround pro-Trump protesters with guns at the Florida state Capitol in January.

Ari Hoffman

May 10, 2021

A jury found Daniel Alan Baker of Tallahasee guilty on Thursday afternoon of attempting to rally activists to surround pro-Trump protesters with guns at the Florida state Capitol in January. The jury was back with a verdict in only four hours.

During the trial, the FBI used Baker’s posts on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube to show how he "escalated, indicating a potential for immediate threat during upcoming protests in Tallahassee."

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Baker served in the Army in 2006 and 2007 in before being dishonorably discharged. He went AWOL (Absent With-Out Leave), before his unit deployed to Iraq. From 2008 to 2017, Baker was unemployed, homeless and in the Tallahassee area, occasionally working as a security guard.

In 2017, Baker joined a militia group in Syria. The group, the People's Protection Units (YPG), is a sub-affiliate of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the US State Department. The group is a combination of revolutionary socialism, Marxism and Leninism and is attempting to create a communist Kurdistan.

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Baker and other members of zone security were accused by fellow activists and militants on social media of shooting at the vehicle. Baker claimed on Twitter that he confiscated weapons found in the SUV after it crashed. Baker then admitted taking the weapons and putting them in the zone "armory." Full details of the incident are not known because police were not allowed access to the until after the crime scene had been tampered with.

Baker faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a $500,000 fine for two federal counts of using the internet to threaten protesters he assumed would converge on the Florida Capitol to support President Donald Trump in January.

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BTW A 1 day story in the MSM. Question: if he were a member or seen with (say) Proud Boys or any other center/right/right wing group, you think this story might have had Legs? Like CNN 24/7, covered on The View, In depth coverage in the NY Times a former news paper