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The Cameraman Who Knew Too Much
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The Cameraman Who Knew Too Much

Journalist Steve Baker is being threatened with racketeering and other charges for his video coverage of what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. ...
Michael Tennant
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“This is a chilling action,” said journalist Steve Baker. “It’s frightening, to say the least.”

That “action” is Baker’s impending federal prosecution for crimes he allegedly committed while covering the January 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. A conviction for just one of those alleged crimes, interstate racketeering, could land him behind bars for five years or more.

Baker, who goes by the moniker “The Pragmatic Constitutionalist” on social media, told The New American the charges against him, especially the one claiming he’s a state-hopping gangster, are “ridiculous.” He believes the feds are trying to “scare the bejesus out of” him because, as he put it in a Thanksgiving Day Facebook post,

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