A lawyer in Georgia boasted that he and fellow rioters ‘kicked in Nancy Pelosi’s office door’ and that the speaker of the house did not ‘tear to pieces’, according to a criminal charge.
William McCall Calhoun Jr., an attorney from Americus, Georgia, is charged with trespassing on a restricted building, violent or disorderly conduct and obstructing official government proceedings, according to an FBI statement in which he was arrested.
The FBI’s national threat center received a tip that Calhoun – in words and video on social media – recorded in the deadly riot on January 6 at the US Capitol building, according to the statement.
Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in hopes of stopping Congress from formalizing President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. At least five people have been killed as a result of the violence.
Calhoun said the “mob” searched through Pelosi’s inner sanctuary, according to his Facebook post quoted in the statement.
“And get it – the first of us to come upstairs kicked in Nancy Pelosi’s office door and pushed down the hallway to her inner sanctuary, the mob crying in anger,” Calhoun wrote according to the FBI.
“Crazy Nancy would probably have torn to pieces, but she was nowhere to be seen.”
Calhoun’s Facebook and Parler accounts, cited in the statement, appeared to be removed Tuesday afternoon.
The alleged rioter was arrested Friday and remains in jail until his bail hearing Thursday, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the central district of Georgia.
A Calhoun attorney did not immediately return messages for comment.
Calhoun, who practices criminal and insurance law, has a good reputation and was not targeted for any discipline, according to the Georgia Bar Association report.
A spokesman for the association did not want to discuss Calhoun on Tuesday afternoon, but said in a statement: “The bar only has jurisdiction over lawyers in their professional lives, and the rules do not cover personal conduct unless a member is found guilty of” a crime. ‘
He has been licensed to practice law in Georgia since 1990.
