Did he wet his diaper?
Matthew Banta was previously arrested — and posted bond — after allegedly pointing a loaded rifle at a cop.
By: Dave Urbanski, The Blaze, September 1, 2020:
A Wisconsin man was caught with a flamethrower, smoke grenades, and fireworks while headed toward a protest in Green Bay over the weekend, WBAY-TV reported.
Matthew Banta, 23, is charged with obstructing an officer and two counts of felony bail jumping, the station reported. He’s also “known to be a violent Antifa member who incites violence in otherwise relatively peaceful protests,” WBAY said, citing a criminal complaint.
Believe it or not, Banta also is known as “Commander Red,” police told the station.
What are the details?
Green Bay police told WBAY they were called for “a whole bunch of white people with sticks, baseball bats and helmets headed… towards the police” on Walnut Street near Webster Avenue on Saturday night.
“I don’t know who comes to a protest with a baseball bat for anything other than criminal or illegal activity,” Green Bay Police Chief Andrew Smith noted to the station.
More from WBAY:
A responding officer says he saw four individuals walking towards a protest with baseball bats. One man was wearing a metal helmet with goggles and military-style gear with multiple pouches, and was carrying an Antifa flag. When the officer pulled his squad car in front of the group, they ran away. The officer caught Banta, who was carrying the flag, and says Banta “dropped into the fetal position and began crying.” He accused the officer of lying on him; the officer replied nobody was on him.
Banta admitted he was headed to the Green Bay protest but denied he was planning to incite a riot, the station said, adding that a Brown County Court Commissioner set a $2,500 cash bond during his initial appearance Monday.
“It’s worrisome when people associated with Antifa come here to Green Bay from out of town for the purpose of protesting here or for the purposes of committing violent acts,” Smith also told WBAY.
Persistence doesn’t always pay
You might recall our hero from a report in TheBlaze last month. See, a police officer said Banta pointed a loaded rifle at him — and bit and kicked him — during a Waupaca protest Aug. 1.
Banta, according to WBAY’s story on last month’s incident, was charged with:
- second-degree recklessly endangering, use of a dangerous weapon (point a loaded firearm at an officer)
- battery to a law enforcement officer, use of a dangerous weapon (biting an officer)
- battery to a law enforcement officer (kicking an officer)
- resisting an officer, use of a dangerous weapon
- disorderly conduct, use of a dangerous weapon
A criminal complaint also said a bullet was in the rifle’s chamber, WBAY noted, adding that police found 117 rounds of ammunition on Banta, as well as an 8-inch straight blade knife in a sheath on his belt.
While Banta posted $10,000 cash bond after last month’s incident, a condition of his bond was not being in possession of a dangerous weapon, the station said, citing the Brown County district attorney’s office.
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They should have had a “weenie roast” with the flame thrower before arresting him. As for the grenades, they should be put in a place where the sun will not shine on them. Hope he hangs after being charged/convicted of terrorism.
“While Banta posted $10,000 cash bond after last month’s incident, a condition of his bond was not being in possession of a dangerous weapon, the station said, citing the Brown County district attorney’s office.”
I am wondering just WHO is posting this $10k CASH BOND????? mmmmmmm?
If this is a matter of PUBLIC RECORD, can anyone find out WHO POSTED THE BOND?
Soros, or somebody like him.
See my post and start clicking the links.
See my post and start clicking the links.
Rob Riener
Disgusting, then again, it betrays the judiciaries leniency when it comes to these wannabe subversives.
I HAD to like this simply because of your great name, “BITE ME, Democrats.” Yay!!
I was thinking the same thing.
You beat me to it.
Maybe it was the Biden staff?
They have been doing that for others.
If I looked like that guy, I think I might hate the world, as well.
BTW, what a sissy.
Did anyone expect otherwise? Of course, he whimpered and went into the fetal position. He and his ANTIFA scourge are base cowards, as is the entirety of the Bolshevist/Fascist movement. So, he was packing a flamethrower and hand-grenades; one suspects he will face hefty charges, but likely not.
Biden and his misfit comrades or some Hollow-headed Hollywood deity will hire an overpriced lawyer for this wimp. He and his tag-along banshees define cowardice. The Communist, Fifth Column media will play down this gits arrest and the weaponry on his person if mentioned. Welcome to the Democrats’ Cowardly, Marxist New World Order.
A flamethrower?????????????????
Take to the Middle East, drop him near some ISIS members and with a sign in Arabic quoting him as insulting Allah.
Then Jdam the whole lot of them after they have thier play time.
More like a “flamer”……
He fell into a fetal position to bait the officers into something that could be video’d and edited into “police brutality.”
Don’t think that communists don’t have balls. The leaders do. The followers think that they do, until after the revolution when the leaders kick them in those same balls and replace false-bravery with real-fear.
Communism is based on useful idiots being led by Tyrants… but tyrants ain’t cowards. Say what you want about Joe, Mao, Adolf, Hugo, Kim, Ho, etc. They had balls.
This kid has them, or at least thinks that he does. One way or the other, however, he’s going to get them kicked – and hard. Either by his “dear leader,” if they take the day… or by us.
He’s a loser, yes, but don’t think that he was crying real tears. This was an act.
Don’t be stupid and think that he’s actually crying. Don’t play checkers when he’s playing chess.
Don’t think that communists don’t have balls.
Rob-
You may well be correct about his fetal crying being an act. However, I will point out a little incident from Solzhenitzyn’s magnificent “Gulag Archipelago” in which he related the story of, as I recall, a high level official in the NKVD. This official was known as a “tough” sadistic person. But he fell from official grace, and ended up in prison himself. Reportedly, he was easy to break (I think confessing to multiple crimes against the state.) Solzhenitzyn’s withering description of this man who was tough on prisoners, but who easily buckled himself, was:
The two kinds of toughness do not equate.
Prissy Boy!
Terrifying????
OMG, just what in the Hell is this?
LOL!! ….. why it’s the Leftist army burning Democrat cities,… for DIVERSITY!!
This is the best they could come up with for a “commander?”
Nothing new for the CS parasitic feral animals that need a gang to go anywhere!!!!
Put him up on federal charges.
Having been a correctional officer, should this candy ass be incarcerated his only tool of survival would be to get a boyfriend.
Ah, the wheels of justice.
I would say test the flamethrower on this useless creep.
“Crispy Critter” on the menu?
Little commando b!tch
The officer caught Banta, who was carrying the flag, and says Banta “dropped into the fetal position and began crying.” He accused the officer of lying on him; the officer replied nobody was on him.
Commander Red ????? Sounds more like “Private P*ssy”…….
Bond should have been a minimum of $100,000 dollars. The people who fund Antifa should have to pay. If I threatened the police I don’t think it would go well for me at all.
He was crying because he knows his mother will find out he took her flame thrower without permission.
Did you wet your pink panties too, Banta?
First of all who put up 10k for his bail the first time? Biden? Soros? squeeze him for info then dispose of this oxygen bandit.
” Banta admitted he was headed to the Green Bay protest but denied he
was planning to incite a riot, the station said, adding that a Brown
County Court Commissioner set a $2,500 cash bond during his initial
appearance Monday.”
Oh, Boy, did they throw the book at him, or what???
Only problem is …… it seems like it was a COMIC BOOK.
The poor wee soy boy wants to run off and find his safe space so he can have a good cry.
Couldnt fight his way out of a wet paper bag.
Throw him a jail with a really big black dude that can use him for his pleasure..
This man child is obviously dangerous. He should be denied bail to protect the populace.