A6 THE BULLETIN • SUNDAY, JANUARY 10, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. | CAPITOL BREACH
2 men in high-profile photos among latest charged
Superior Court for a variety
of offenses ranging from as-
saulting police officers to en-
tering restricted areas of the
U.S. Capitol, stealing federal
property and threatening law-
makers.
Prosecutors said additional
cases remained under seal,
dozens of other people were
being sought by federal agents
and the U.S. attorney in Wash-
ington vowed Friday that “all
options were on the table” for
charges, including possibly se-
dition.
BY RICK CALLAHAN
Associated Press
Two men accused of join-
ing a mob of President Don-
ald Trump’s supporters that
stormed the nation’s Capitol —
one wearing a horned, fur hat
and the other carrying House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern
— were charged Saturday, the
latest arrests in Wednesday’s
mayhem that left five people
dead.
The arrests come as more
images emerge showing just
how violent the riots were: a
bloodied officer crushed in a
doorway screaming; another
tumbling over a railing into the
crowd below after being body-
slammed from behind; mem-
bers of the media being cursed,
shoved and punched.
Jacob Anthony Chansley, an
Arizona man seen in photos
and video of the mob with a
painted face and wearing a cos-
tume that included the horned
hat, was taken into custody
Saturday and charged with
counts that include violent en-
try and disorderly conduct on
Capitol grounds.
Chansley, more commonly
known as Jake Angeli, will re-
main in custody in Arizona
pending a detention hearing
that will be scheduled during
an initial court appearance
early in the coming week, As-
sistant U.S. Attorney Esther
Winne told The Associated
Press by email. Chansley did
not immediately respond to
messages left via email and
telephone.
Chansley, who had become
a staple in his costume at pro-
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP file
Supporters of President Donald Trump are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Senate
Chamber inside the Capitol during Wednesday’s breach. The man seen in photos and video of the mob wear-
ing a fur hat with horns has been identified as Jacob Anthony Chansley, who also goes by the name Jake An-
geli. The Arizona man was taken into custody Saturday.
Trump protests across the
country, is now among dozens
of people arrested in the wake
of the Capitol invasion by a
large mob of Trump support-
ers enraged over his election
loss.
The rioters took over the
House and Senate chambers,
smashed windows and waved
Trump, American and Con-
federate flags, forcing lawmak-
ers to halt their voting to af-
firm President-elect Joe Biden’s
victory and go into hiding for
hours.
A Florida man accused of
making off with Pelosi’s lectern
during the chaos was arrested
Friday night on a federal war-
rant and was being held Sat-
urday without bail in Pinellas
County, Florida. Jail records
do not show if Adam Johnson,
36, of Parrish, Florida, has an
attorney.
Johnson was charged Sat-
urday with theft, violent en-
try and disorderly conduct on
Capitol grounds.
The married father of five
who was quickly identified on
social media by local residents
as the man in a photo smiling
as he walked through the Cap-
itol rotunda carrying Pelosi’s
lectern, The Bradenton Herald
reported.
Before being deleted or
taken down, Johnson posted
on social media that he was
in Washington, D.C., during
Wednesday’s riot and included
disparaging comments about
the Black Lives Matter move-
ment, according to The Bra-
denton Herald.
By Saturday, prosecutors
had filed 17 cases in federal
district court and 40 others
in the District of Columbia
Other notable arrests
• Doug Jensen, an Iowa
man, was jailed early Saturday
on federal charges, includ-
ing trespassing and disorderly
conduct counts, for his alleged
role in the Capitol riot. Jensen,
41, of Des Moines, was being
held without bond at the Polk
County Jail and county sher-
iff’s Sgt. Ryan Evans said he
didn’t know if Jensen had an
attorney. Video posted online
during the storming of the
Capitol showed a man who
appears to be Jensen, who is
white, pursuing a Black officer
up an interior flight of stairs as
a mob of people trails several
steps behind. At several points,
the officer says “get back,” to
no avail.
• Richard Barnett, an Ar-
kansas man who was shown
in a widely seen photo sit-
ting in House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi’s office with his boots
on a desk after the storming
of the Capitol, was arrested
Friday by the FBI. Barnett,
60, turned himself in to FBI
agents at the Benton County
Sheriff ’s Office in Benton-
ville, Arkansas. He is jailed
in the Washington County
Detention Center in nearby
Fayetteville, Arkansas, with-
out bond pending an initial
court appearance, FBI Little
Rock spokesman Connor Ha-
gan said. No attorney is listed
in online jail records for the
Gravette, Arkansas, man.
• Derrick Evans, a West
Virginia state lawmaker who
posted videos online showing
himself pushing his way in-
side the Capitol, was arrested
Friday by the FBI at his home
and charged with entering
restricted federal property.
Evans, who faced bipartisan
calls for him to step down,
submitted a letter of resigna-
tion Saturday to West Virginia
Gov. Jim Justice and apolo-
gized for his actions. Evans
faces charges that he entered a
restricted area of the U.S. Cap-
itol after he livestreamed him-
self rushing into the building
with a horde of rampaging
Trump supporters as Con-
gress was in session to certify
the Electoral College vote. In
the videos, Evans is seen fist
bumping a police officer and
then milling around the ro-
tunda as he shouted, “Our
house!”
• Rodney Taylor, 57, of
Bandon, who is among at least
three Oregonians who have
been arrested, according to re-
cords. Taylor told The Orego-
nian newspaper Thursday that
he supported peaceful protest.
Taylor said he was fined $25
and released.
Pelosi ties rioters’ actions to ‘whiteness’; officer remembered
Bulletin wire reports
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
is accusing the Trump support-
ers who rioted in the Capitol of
choosing “their whiteness over
democracy.”
The California Democrat
used an online video meeting
with her hometown San Fran-
cisco constituents to criticize the
overwhelmingly white mob that
attacked Congress on Wednes-
day as it met to formally finalize
Joe Biden’s presidential victory.
“It has been an epiphany for
the world to see that there are
people in our country led by
this president, for the moment,
who have chosen their white-
ness over democracy,” Pelosi
said Saturday.
Pelosi has set the House on
course to potentially voting on
a new impeachment of Trump
as early as this coming week, a
move that has overwhelming
support from Democrats. She
shed no new light Saturday on
whether she’s made a final de-
cision on that or other details.
Pelosi says, “The complic-
ity, not only the complicity, the
instigation of the president of
United States, must and will be
addressed.”
FAA warns agitators on planes
There have been several
incidents of unruly passen-
gers aboard flights leaving the
Washington, D.C., area in re-
cent days, and now the head of
the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration is threatening to “pur-
sue strong enforcement action
against anyone who endangers
the safety of a flight.”
Administrator Stephen
Dickson said Saturday he ex-
pects passengers to follow in-
structions from airline crews.
He notes that the penalties for
interfering with crews range
from fines to jail time.
The recent incidents include
an American Airlines captain
threatening to land a Wash-
ington-to-Phoenix flight in
Kansas if passengers chanting
“USA” didn’t behave. A female
passenger can be heard mock-
ing the captain’s warning.
Flight attendants have ex-
pressed concern that their
flights could be carrying sup-
porters of President Don-
ald Trump who took part in
Wednesday’s violent protest
and siege of the U.S. Capitol.
Family remembers slain
Capitol Police officer
From his early days grow-
ing up in a New Jersey hamlet,
Brian Sicknick wanted to be
a police officer. He enlisted in
the National Guard six months
after graduating high school in
1997, deploying to Saudi Ara-
bia and then Kyrgyzstan. Join-
ing the Guard was his means
to joining law enforcement,
his family said. He would join
the U.S. Capitol Police in 2008,
serving until his death Thurs-
day after being attacked as ri-
oters seething over President
Donald Trump’s election loss
stormed the U.S. Capitol, be-
lieving the president’s false
claims of a rigged election.
“His brother told me, ‘Brian
did his job,’” said John Krenzel,
the mayor of Sicknick’s home-
town of South River, New Jersey.
Videos published online
show vastly outnumbered
Capitol Police officers trying
in vain to stop surging rioters,
though other videos show offi-
cers not moving to stop rioters
in the building.
The Capitol Police said in a
statement that Sicknick was in-
jured “while physically engag-
ing with protesters.” During the
struggle, Sicknick, 42, was hit
in the head with a fire extin-
guisher, two law enforcement
officials said. The officials
could not discuss the ongo-
ing investigation publicly and
spoke to The Associated Press
on condition of anonymity.
Senator: Capitol is
a ‘crime scene’
The incoming chairman of
the Senate Intelligence Com-
mittee has called the Capitol
a “crime scene” with evidence
that needs to be preserved.
Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.,
wrote 11 telecommunication
and social media companies
asking them to immediately
preserve content and associated
meta-data connected to the in-
surrectionist attack on the Cap-
itol. Those companies include
mobile carriers AT&T, T-Mo-
bile and Verizon and from the
social media world — Apple,
Facebook, Gab, Google, Parler,
Signal, Telegram and Twitter.
Warner said the FBI and
other law enforcement agen-
cies investigating the events of
that day are trying to piece to-
gether what happened. He told
the companies that “messaging
data to and from your subscrib-
ers that may have participated
in, or assisted, those engaged in
this insurrection — and associ-
ated subscriber information —
are critical evidence in helping
to bring these rioters to justice.”
Big Tech takes action against
Parler, a Twitter alternative
Late Friday, Google an-
nounced that Parler — a Twit-
ter alternative increasingly seen
as a refuge for the incendiary
rhetoric increasingly barred by
other platforms, and a possible
haven for Trump — would no
longer be available for down-
load on its App Store, citing
“continued posting ... seeking
to incite violence.” Apple fol-
lowed suit on Saturday, remov-
ing the app as a download for
its products.
Amazon suspended Parler
from its web-hosting service
late Saturday.
Twitter permanently sus-
pended Trump’s account Fri-
day. Facebook and Instagram
have suspended Trump at least
until Inauguration Day. Twitch
and Snapchat also have dis-
abled Trump’s accounts, while
Shopify took down online
stores affiliated with the pres-
ident and Reddit removed a
Trump subgroup.
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