Many of President Donald Trump’s supporters who took part in the riot at the US Capitol last week were not ashamed to reveal their identities.
As rioters climbed over the barricades and entered the building, people – often without masks – streamed the events live, posting photos on social media and roaming around the building, smashing windows and destroying property while members of Congress hid.
The federal authorities are using the images that some rioters posted to arrest as more information comes to light about who stormed the Capitol.
Here are some people who were part of the disappointment.
Richard Barnett
An image of Richard Barnett – trapped with his foot on a desk in the office of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California. – quickly went viral last week. Barnett looks relaxed as he lies down in an office chair and later takes an envelope from her office.
“I wrote her a nasty letter,” Barnett, 60, of Gravette, Arkansas, reportedly said through a New York Times reporter who tweeted that he had spoken to Barnett after he left Pelosi’s office.
He was arrested in Arkansas on Friday on federal charges of trespassing and staying on restricted grounds, violent access and theft of public property, the Department of Justice said.
Barnett said he knocked on the door but was swept inside by other rioters.
His mayor, Kurt Maddox, condemned his alleged actions, saying: “It is a pity that such a thing puts you in the public eye.”
Jake Angeli
Jake Angeli was among the people whose images became the public faces of the riot. Angeli donned a fur hat with horns and inspired face paint on the American flag and stormed the bare chest in the aftermath of the Capitol.
“The fact that we let a bunch of our traitors down in the office, put on their gas masks and retreated into their underground bunker, I consider a victory,” Angeli, 33, said last week.
Angeli, legally named Jacob Anthony Chansley, is a YouTuber who supports QAnon and was also among the pro-Trump protesters who gathered outside the Maricopa County Electoral Department in Phoenix on Nov. 5, claiming the election was stolen.
He was arrested on Saturday in connection with the riot. Michael Sherwin, the acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, said Angeli was charged with “knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or land without lawful authorization, and with violent trespassing and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.” Before he was arrested, Angeli compared his actions to those of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
“What I did was civil disobedience,” he said. “I did nothing wrong … I walked through an open door, man.”
Leonard Guthrie
Leonard Guthrie of Cape May, New Jersey, attended the rally and did not blame Trump for the violence.
Guthrie, 48, told NBC Philadelphia that he did not enter the building and that he was arrested after crossing a police border, admitting to disobeying a law. ‘
Guthrie called the protesters who stormed the building “stupid” and said their actions were not what it was about.
“It’s about revival. It’s not about kicking doors,” he said, stressing that he did not believe Trump had incited violence.
In some of his public posts, Guthrie talks about the threat posed by the loose collection of activists known as antifa: ‘We may be called tin foil hat groups, but I wear my tin foil knowing that my family and militia family are ready for a fall. “
Guthrie, who did not return requests for comment, was arrested on the day of the riot and charged with unlawful entry. He was released overnight and on his way home he struck a deer.
“Nice end to what started a day full of God,” he said of the collision.
Mark Leffingwell
Mark Leffingwell is charged Thursday with assaulting a federal law enforcement officer.
The Justice Department claims that Leffingwell “entered the side of the Senate of the Capitol and when stopped by law enforcers, struck an officer in the helmet and chest.” He was also charged with illegal and violent entry.
Leffingwell, from Seattle, has been released for personal recognition to his wife, reports the NBC subsidiary KING from Seattle. Leffingwell could not be immediately reached for comment Monday.
Eric Gavelek Munchel
Eric Gavelek Munchel, nicknamed the “zip-tie-man” on the internet, was arrested on Sunday on federal charges.
Munchel, of Tennessee, was “charged with a charge that he knowingly entered or remained in any restricted building or site without lawful authorization, and that there was a violent trespass and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds,” he said. the Department of Justice said. It is not clear if Munchel has a lawyer.
Munchel, a former bartender in Florida, was photographed in the Senate chamber, wearing a mask and plastic restraints known as bending cords.
“Photos depicting his presence show a Munchel-like person with plastic guards, an object in a holster on his right hip and a cellphone mounted on his chest with the camera facing outwards, apparently around the events to record the day, “the authority said. said.
Derrick Evans
One of the people who forced members of Congress to hide themselves from the riot was himself a legislator.
The man, Derrick Evans, a Republican state attorney in West Virginia, was arrested Friday by federal authorities on charges of trespassing on a restricted building and using violent access.
Evans’ sent a video of his face and a crowd entering the U.S. Capitol illegally ‘directly to his Facebook page,’ the Justice Department said in a news release.
In the video that was removed, Evans shouted, “We’re in! We’re in! Derrick Evans is in the Capitol!” according to authorities.
“Bring the tear gas. We don’t care,” Evans shouted. ‘We’re taking this country back, whether you like it or not. Today is a test run. We are taking this country back. ‘
At another point he is heard asking, “Where are the proud boys?” referring to the far-right, male, self-described group of “Western chauvinists.”
When rioters passed by officers, Evans said on the stream that he had not touched anything and that he was just looking. Evans told people not to vandalize before shouting ‘Patriots inside, baby’.
In a Facebook post defending his actions, Evans said he was there as an ‘independent member of the media’.
The West Virginia Democratic Party has called for Evans to resign. Prior to his arrest, his lawyer said he would not resign because “he used his rights for first amendment to peacefully demonstrate and film a historic and dynamic event.”
But Evans resigned Saturday in a brief letter to the state governor, who made no comment.
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson, 36, is charged with trespassing or staying in any restricted building, theft of government property and violent trespassing on Capitol property after being seen carrying the speaker reading of the House by the Capitol.
Authorities said they found Johnson, from Parrish, Florida, through a “search for open sources” while blowing his statue with the chair across the country.
In the photo, Johnson smiles while wearing a Trump hat.
Johnson, the father of five children, was released Monday, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
“He just wants to stay with his family,” his attorney, David Bigney, told the Times.
Johnson and his attorney could not be immediately reached for comment.
Aaron Mostofsky
The son of a judge in New York was among the rioters.
The man, Aaron Mostofsky, was wearing furs while storming the Capitol. A spokesman for his father, Judge Shlomo Mostofsky of the Kings County High Court in Brooklyn, confirmed to Law360 that it was indeed his son in the Capitol.
In an interview with the New York Post during the riot, Aaron Mostofsky, who gave only his first name, said he stormed the Capitol because the election was ‘stolen’. The Post said Mostofsky was holding a riot shield from Capitol police, which he said was found on the floor.
He was spotted by the Post Office leaving his home on Friday, and it is unclear whether charges are being filed.
A representative of his father, the judge, did not respond to requests for comment.