Capitol Police Detain and Question Chuck C. Johnson About Stalking Behavior
Our stalker pal Chuck C. Johnson has told his story about being detained and questioned by Capitol Police at a fundraiser for John Boehner in Bakersfield last weekend, to Daily Caller hack Betsy Rothstein: Capitol Police Detain Charles Johnson For Attending Boehner Fundraiser.
This is the most interesting bit:
Police asked if he’d ever approached a member of Congress. “I said no, thinking that they meant like, walked up to and talked to them on the street,” he said. “I have gone to members of Congress’s homes before, both invited and uninvited.”
Johnson explained, “The ‘uninvited’ question brought us to the Sen. Cochran affair. I said there was some real questions as to whether or not he lived in that house in D.C. and that I had gone there.”
They then asked him about Mississippi. “I said that I had investigated a voter fraud incident in Mississippi involving Senator Thad Cochran and the Barbours buying black votes to defeat Tea party challenger Chris McDaniel,” he said. “I said that I had been present in Mississippi and had witnessed some of the corruption and been chased out of the state by two goons.”
Johnson said police told him that going to a senator’s home is illegal. “I said that it was not and that I had filmed the entire episode on camera with a friend and that we spent a total of ten minutes at the home,” he said. “They said it was in a legal gray zone. I said that it was not, especially as I was reporting on the incident. They said it was illegal if I was harassing them. I said, well, there’s no evidence that I harassed anyone and he [the officer] said that it was inappropriate to visit the home.”
Alluding to Cochran’s marital situation, Johnson told police that “it was inappropriate to live with a mistress and staffer and that I had no intentions of going to members of Congress’s homes. We agreed to disagree.”
Here’s the photo Johnson posted on Twitter of himself standing outside Thad Cochran’s home in disheveled clothes with his shirt untucked:
It’s pretty clear that this little stunt — standing in front of a US Senator’s private residence — got Chuck onto the radar of the Capitol Hill police force. They take this kind of stalking behavior very seriously, and now they’re obviously keeping a file on this psycho, judging from the questions he was asked. And there’s plenty to set off their alarms — Chuck’s pictures of himself posing with guns, for starters.
Chuck has now crossed over into John Hinckley territory, and if he shows up on Capitol Hill at some point, he’ll undoubtedly be stopped and questioned again. Nice work, Babycakes.
