Among those who forcibly and violently entered the Capitol this Wednesday, smashing windows and desecrating American flags, were congressmen, believers in the QAnon conspiracy theory and people in T-shirts that made reference to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.
The man who broke into Nancy Pelosi's offices on January 6, 2021.AFP via Getty Images
"Well, I'm already in his office, I bled in his office, I leave him at least a quarter" in exchange for the envelope, Barnett told a reporter for The New York Times.
Barnett received a $ 9,300 loan from the Payroll Protection Program
(PPP) to combat the coronavirus crisis, approved by Congress, according to data from NBC News.
[Trump's businesses benefited from small business PPP loans due to the pandemic]
Jake Angeli, the man in a fur hat and
two horns who took the Senate stand, is already well known for having participated in numerous far-right protests in Arizona.
Pro-Trump subjects who entered the Capitol with violence on January 6, 2021. Getty Images /
He has even been dubbed the
Q Shaman
or "Shaman of Q", as he is a supporter and promoter of the baseless conspiracy theory called QAnon, which maintains that a mysterious man with a high-level job in the Government has an alleged plan to give to learn about an invented network of alleged pedophilia.
On Thursday morning, Angeli told a reporter that
no one from law enforcement has tried to contact him
and that he even plans to return to Washington DC for a protest on January 20, when the Constitution establishes that the legitimately elected president will take office. , Joe Biden.
In the photos of the first people who broke into the Capitol, other people with uncovered faces are seen wearing clothes allusive to QAnon.
And among the vandals who posed with things snatched from the Capitol, like the sign with Pelosi's name outside the representative's office, there are also people who were wearing T-shirts alluding to the Holocaust.
The iTV News cameras captured a man wearing a jacket referring to Auschwitz, one of the most terrible Nazi death camps.
One of the men who vandalized the Capitol
entered the building with a Confederate flag,
the insignia of the states that unleashed the Civil War because they wanted to keep the slavery of black and indigenous people in force.
Never before in history, not even during the Civil War, was there a Confederate flag inside the Congress building.
A supporter of Donald Trump entered the racist Confederate flag on Capitol Hill on Jan. 6. Reuters /
So far, the
police in Washington DC have disclosed the arrest of almost a hundred people
, almost all on charges of not complying with the curfew imposed on the same Wednesday and that will last until January 21.
Only one of the people who appears on the police list as arrested was charged with violating the Riot Act, identified by authorities as Joshua Pruitt, 39, who lives in DC
Pruitt is apparently a member of the Proud Boys, the anti-rightist group Trump referenced during one of the presidential debates.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was arrested and later released Tuesday in Washington, and a judge ordered him to leave the area on Wednesday morning, before the congressional occupation.
There is a crime specified in the US penal code for those who "enter without authority and by force, with the intention of preventing the functions or actions of the Government, to a building or land" with restricted access or for those who "commit physical violence against any person or property ”in a government building.
So far, according to public records, none of the participants in the assault on the Capitol faces those charges.
