By Ben Kesslen, Didi Martinez and Adiel Kaplan - NBC News
Many of outgoing President Donald Trump's supporters who participated in the Capitol riots last Wednesday made no real attempt to hide who they are.
The people who participated, most without masks, broadcast live as the radicals climbed barricades or smashed windows to break into the building.
They also published photographs of themselves on social networks and moved shamelessly through the building, in which there were reporters and photojournalists, while destroying the public property that is the headquarters of the Congress.
Now federal authorities are using the images that several of Trump's violent supporters posted, as well as what was captured by the media, to arrest those responsible.
[Trump refuses to take responsibility for the assault on the Capitol, while warning of the "great anger" of his followers]
These are some of the most recognizable figures that were part of the attack.
Richard Barnett
The man who broke into Nancy Pelosi's offices on January 6, 2021.AFP via Getty Images
The image of Richard Barnett with his feet on the desk of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, was one of those that went viral almost immediately last Wednesday, January 6.
Barnett looked relaxed leaning back in his office chair, from which he also stole at least one mail envelope.
"I wrote him a dirty note," Barnett, 60, of Gravette, Arkansas, boasted to a New York Times reporter with whom the vandal spoke after leaving Pelosi's office.
He was arrested on Friday, January 8, two days after the assault, in Arkansas on charges of the federal crime of breaking into and staying on restricted-access land, as well as
violent trespassing and theft of public property,
according to the Justice Department.
[Two Capitol police officers are suspended for their conduct during the assault]
Barnett tried to argue that he knocked on the door of Pelosi's office and that it was not until others broke in that he entered.
Kurt Maddox, the mayor of Gravette, condemned Barnett's actions, saying, "It's a disgrace that it's something like that that gets us public attention."
Jake "Angeli" Chansley
Pro-Trump subjects who entered the Capitol with violence on January 6, 2021. Getty Images /
The picture of Jake Angeli, whose real name is Jacob Anthony Chansley, was widely publicized after the man, wearing a horned fur hat, stormed the Capitol.
"The fact that there were many 'traitors' in power hiding, putting on gas masks and going to an underground bunker is something that I consider a success," said Angeli, 33, after the violence last week.
Angeli is a YouTuber who promotes QAnon's conspiracy theories and was also among Trump supporters who gathered, shouting and threatening officials, outside the Maricopa County Elections Department in Phoenix, Arizona, on November 5. .
They argued that the election was allegedly "stolen" (there is no evidence of massive fraud) because Joe Biden won in Arizona.
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The Capitol attacker was arrested on Saturday, January 9, for links to the riots.
Michael Sherwin, the acting attorney for Washington, DC, said Angeli was charged with "knowingly entering and / or staying in a building or land with restricted access without legal authority, through violent entry, and
disorderly conduct. public in the Capitol area. "
Before being put behind bars, Angeli tried to argue that his actions - such as pacing the Senate room after the violent eruption - were like those of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.
"What I did was civil disobedience," he said (civil disobedience is breaking a law when it is considered unjust as part of a peaceful protest).
"I just walked through an open door," Angeli added.
Leonard Guthrie
This man from Cape May, New Jersey, attended the protest, but claims that he never entered the Congress building illegally, but was arrested after crossing a police line.
He admitted to the local Philadelphia station of NBC News, the sister network of Noticias Telemundo, that he "disobeyed the law."
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However, the 48-year-old indicated that the Trump supporters who broke into the building were "stupid" and that such actions "were not the idea."
"This was about rebirth, not kicking in doors," he declared.
Guthrie, who has boasted in his social networks of having a "militia family" and being part of the groups "that wears aluminum foil hats" in reference to supporters of conspiracy theories, was arrested on January 6 and charged. of illegal entry.
Eric Gavelek Munchel
A man armed with zip-ties or flex-cuffs in the Senate room on January 6, 2021. Getty Images /
This man who was dubbed "the guy with the plastic ties" was arrested on Saturday, January 9.
Munchel, a native of Tennessee, was charged with breaking into a restricted-access building without legal authority and is facing charges of trespassing and disorderly conduct.
He has been identified as a Florida bar worker.
He was photographed in the Senate with his face partially covered and wearing
flex-cuffs
, straps that serve as handcuffs.
That suggests that he
very possibly intended to tie the hands of someone
, perhaps a legislator or even Vice President Mike Pence himself, who was in the Senate (the vice is also president of the Upper House) and had been criticized by Trump because he refused to reverse. the election results.
Mugshot of Eric Gavelek Munchel, who was arrested in Tennessee for his links to the robbery of the Capitol. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County via AP /
"Photos related to the person who appears to be Munchel show him with plastic ties, something inside a pistol holster on his right hip, and a cell phone on his chest, with the camera facing forward, possibly to record the events. "said authorities.
Mark leffingwell
[The heroic act of a policeman who averted a major disaster during the attack on the Capitol]
Leffingwell was indicted on Thursday, January 7, for an assault on an officer.
The Justice Department claims that Leffingwell "entered the Senate side of the Capitol and was detained by law enforcement officers, after which he
struck a police officer on the chest and against his helmet
."
The man was also charged with illegal and violent entry.
Leffingwell, of Seattle, was released from prison in Washington DC on bail on his wife's word, according to the NBC affiliate.
Derrick Evans
One of the people who made members of Congress go into hiding from a violent riot was a legislator.
Derrick Evans, a Republican delegate from West Virginia, was arrested by federal authorities on Friday, January 8, on charges of trespassing into a restricted-access building.
Evans also "broadcast live from his Facebook page a video of how he joined and stirred up the crowd that illegally entered the US Capitol," the Justice Department said.
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In the video, which was later deleted, Evans yells, "We go in, we go in! Derrick Evans is on Capitol Hill!" According to authorities' account of the recording.
"That tear gas is thrown at us, we do not care," he says, "
today is just a test
because we are going to claim this country."
Derrick Evan (left) when he was sworn in as a West Virginia legislator on December 14, 2020. West Virginia Legislature via AP /
In a Facebook post after the Capitol attack, Evans tried to justify himself by saying he was supposedly an "independent member of the media."
The West Virginia Democratic Party asked Evans to resign from the legislature.
Before the arrest, Evans' attorney said he was not going to resign because he had exercised his right to "record a historical event."
However,
Evans ended up resigning from his public office
in a letter addressed to the Governor of West Virginia in which Evans announced nothing but resignation.
Adam Johnson
They arrested the 36-year-old Florida man who was photographed with the podium of the leader of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.Getty Images
This 56-year-old man was charged with entering and / or staying in a restricted access building without permission, for theft of public property and for violent break-in after he was caught
carrying the lectern of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Authorities said they found Johnson searching "open sources" after identifying him in the image.
Johnson is from Parrish, Florida, and the father of five;
he was released Monday on bond, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
"He just wanted to be home with his family," Johnson's Saturday David Bigney told the middle of Tampa.
Aaron Mostofsky
Mostofsky, the son of a New York judge, was among the vandals on the Capitol.
Aaron Mostofsky (right) was among the robbers on the Capitol. AP /
He was captured in photographs where he appears dressed in fur.
A spokesman for Justice Shlomo Mostofsky, who is part of the Kings County Supreme Court in Brooklyn, confirmed that this was the magistrate's son.
In an interview with the New York Post during the raid, Aaron Mostofsky said he participated in the attack on the Capitol because he believes the election was "stolen."
(There is no evidence that it was.)
Mostofsky is also pictured wearing a police vest and was later seen wearing a police shield;
he told the New York Post he found those objects on the floor.
Mostofsky was arrested on the morning of Tuesday, January 12.