The United States Department of Justice announced on Saturday the arrest of Jacob Anthony Angeli Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli and world famous as the “man with the horns” since the Capitol building in Washington last Wednesday. Authorities believe he is Donald Trump’s supporter who appeared shirtless, his face painted in red, blue and white, and with a bearskin cap adorned with horns on his head during the five-death incidents, being accused of a federal judge to intentionally enter and remain in a building with prohibited access, disorderly conduct and violent access to facilities.
Easily identified, since he had already attended other demonstrations in support of Trump with the same costumes and the same make-up, the 32-year-old man, very active on the website QAnon, where conspiracy theories are shared that identify the still president of the United States as an obstacle to a conspiracy of corrupt, pedophiles and satanics, he wielded a metal rod with the American flag.
After being shot at the Capitol in the Senate hall and heard asking “where’s Mike Pence at?”, Furious that the vice president had not challenged the Electoral College votes that won the Democratic presidential election Joe Biden, Angeli came to speak to reporters. He claimed that the police “ended up giving up preventing” him and other Trump supporters from entering the premises and that they “let him go out without being arrested” after “politely asking him”.
In addition to Jake Angeli, two other suspects of being involved in the attack on the Capitol were also heard and accused in the same federal court in the District of Columbia: Adam Johnson, 36, a Florida native, who in addition to the other crimes will also be charged with theft of government property (the pulpit of the House of Representatives leader, Democrat Nancy Pelosi), and Derrick Evans, 35, who is a Republican state congressman in West Virginia. However, he will have already resigned his mandate.
The police investigation was conducted by the FBI, with support from the Congressional police force, and calls continue to be made to identify the hundreds of participants in the riot that, according to many Democratic politicians – and not a few Republicans – is expected to lead to the removal of Donald Trump from the presidency. of the United States before the 20th, when Joe Biden took office.
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