Anti-ICE agitator who allegedly bit officers during Delaney Hall protest was previously accused of distributing child porn

The anti-ICE rioter who allegedly sank his teeth into federal law enforcement officers during a protest at Delaney Hall last week was previously accused of distributing child pornography. The New Jersey US Attorney’s Office charged Brendan John Geier, 26, with assaulting federal officers and causing bodily injury, for allegedly “kicking and biting” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)  officers outside the Newark detention center, leaving them with “horrific wounds,” according to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. Geier, of Madison, NJ, was previously charged with sexual abuse of children related to the dissemination and possession of child pornography, the Justice Department confirmed to The Post.  Berks County (Pa.) Detectives began investigating Geier after receiving a tip about suspected child porn being uploaded through Skype from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in September 2018, according to the county district attorneys office.Investigators linked seven digital images of suspected child pornography to an IP address belonging to Geier, who was then a 19-year-old student at Kutztown University. Authorities later found “numerous digital images of suspected child pornography” on a laptop and iPhone seized from Geier’s dorm room, the DA said at the time.  Second-degree felony child porn charges were filed against Geier on March 12, 2019.He was let out of jail on a $25,000 bail, court records show. In 2021, Geier pleaded guilty to a lesser, third-degree felony charge of criminal use of a communication facility. He was sentenced to two years probation, ordered to have “no contact with anyone under the age of 18” and undergo “sex offender evaluation and treatment.” Geier describes himself as a “shut in” with “high-functioning autism” who enjoys “spending most of his time alone in his room,” in a website he created in 2024 which is largely devoted to Japanese animation and rock music. He ...