By Pete Williams and Erik Ortiz
NBC
WASHINGTON — A man photographed casually sitting with his foot on a desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office at the U.S. Capitol while a pro-Trump mob rampaged the halls of Congress was arrested Friday, law enforcement officials said.
Richard Barnett, 60, of Gravette, Arkansas, was taken into custody in his home state on federal charges of entering and remaining on restricted grounds, violent entry and theft of public property, according to a Department of Justice official. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Arkansas tells NBC News Barnett was arrested this morning and he’s being held in the Washington County Detention Center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, awaiting his initial appearance.
Images, apparently of Barnett, were splashed across social media as the deadly mayhem unfolded in the nation's capital on Wednesday, just as Democratic and Republican lawmakers convened to count the Electoral College votes. Members of Congress condemned the violence and rioting, which was preceded by a rally led by President Donald Trump who told his supporters to swarm the Capitol in defiance of the election results.
Also charged Friday in connection with the rioting at the Capitol was a state lawmaker from West Virginia, Republican Del. Derrick Evans, who had recorded and then deleted a video of himself joining the throng. A petition has been started for him to step down.
As the chaos continued Wednesday afternoon, a New York Times reporter tweeted that he spoke with Barnett after his stunt in Pelosi's office. In a video, he boasts that he took a personalized envelope, but insisted he didn't steal it.
"I left a quarter on her desk," he said.
Barnett also claimed that he knocked politely on the door to the California Democrat's office, but was then swept inside by other rioters who had breached the Capitol. He said he left a "nasty note" as well, using an expletive to refer to Pelosi.
"I'll probably be telling them this is what happened all the way to the D.C. jail," he added.
It was not immediately clear Friday if Barnett had an attorney.
26 comments:
Rural hick getting jail time. No pardon for you, asshole!
Talk about a dumbass.
Many others suddenly not laughing. ha ha ha ha bah hah
Eh, puto. A llorar como un cagapalo, cabron. All bullies act tough until the consequences rear their head -
Josiah Colt, 34, of Boise, who was captured in a dramatic photo dropping to the chamber floor from the visitors gallery by his arm, first posted a video boasting, “I’m all over the news now” and calling House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a “treasonous bitch.”
“I just got in the Capitol building,” he bragged, after sitting in Pelosi’s chair and defiantly raising a fist. “I hopped down into the chamber.”
But Colt, who has since been identified as a person of interest by cops in connection with the breach, quickly backtracked — apologizing and admitting he “brought shame upon myself.”
“[I] sincerely apologize to the American people,” Colt told the East Idaho News. “I recognize my actions that have brought shame upon myself, my family, my friends, and my beautiful country.”
Fucking pussy. Time to cry, asshole.
If Trump Is Impeached and Convicted, He’ll Lose His Post-Presidency Perks
That means no more billing taxpayers when the Secret Service stays at his resorts.
(MotherJones.com)
Guy even looks like an asshole.
Trump must be punished -
Impunity has defined Trump’s Presidency. If he remains unpunished, his anti-democratic movement will persist in mainstream American culture.
No one is above the law. Right, Judge Cascos?
It Is Never Too Late to Impeach a Despot -
Every single hour that Donald Trump remains in office, our country, our democracy, and our national security remain in danger.
Impeaching Trump a second time will mean he loses post-presidency perks!
El Paya Jerry McHale posts photo of Trump wearing a Mexican sombrero.
Que le pasa a ese pendejo? Always disrespecting Mexicans. Why go with anything Mexican? Is he shifting the riot to Mexicans, o que? No tiene juicio ese Guey!!!
Call him on it, Juan!
For some reason, all the commotion in the last 3 days reminds me of BISD.
Trump does his things and hides behind the skirts of someone else.
He entices other to do his dirty work and claims innocence.
Does anyone else see the resemblance? DJT/SPA!
TWITTER has "permanently" suspended Donald Trump!
Wow.
No more Tweets from Waddles? Ja ja ja ja
What a great year it's been already!!!!
Donald Trump has been kicked off of Twitter
About time maybe all his shit could have been avoided.
Now he has to use hillbilly coco wanna be white's account in the sewage where they both belong PENDEJO!
This guy called Pelosi "bitch".
Pelosi is a lady that works for the people of the USA.
The American government has to teach this guy a lesson.
He is 60 years old.
City manager provides update on Brownsville’s 2020 achievements
More bike trails PERIOD. THEY ALL NEED TO GO including ese baboso with his girl friends from el norte culo
Typical hillbilly from the mountains sent all of them to levenworth y la tuna bola de babosos.
City manager provides update on Brownsville’s 2020 achievements
We still have millions of pot holes, the city still floods traffic jams all over paint the white stripes on major streets not on bike trails, unsync traffic lights, and they are installing MORE!
ACHIEVEMENTS ARE YOU KIDDIN' US PINCHE GUEY.
There is a sexagenarian that post comments here does anybody know who he is? Hint: he's from a mountain region???
Juan, post this video -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-VJz6ysdUU
An unarmed woman was killed by Capital police. Where's the outrage? Let's go loot and destroy property to protest police brutality or is this different?
The lady that was shot and killed had once sworn when she joined the military to protect and defend the consitition of the United States and served for so many years, just to fall for the lies that the commander in chief pushed.
Sorry she died, but she asked for it. The rest are lucky they were not shot
too. Did you notice - no Mexicans or blacks in the group?
It is not against the law to call Pelosi a bitch. Calling her a bitch is a 1st Amendment right, the same right that folks have used to hurl all kinds of insults against Trump. But it is against the law to break into the Capitol and do what he did inside.
phony and out of place doofus hillybill coco wanna be white pinche pea-cock...
El pendejo half Coco transgender retard mutt will eat crow or eat a hillbilly Coco parrot in the end when trump remains as president! There's going to be a big surprise for all you idiotas who voted for senile Viejito Biden! Hahahaha! Idiotas vacas! Pelosi's stolen laptop will be full of goodies! Hahahaha! Heads are going to roll! Hahahaha!
I don’t understand the democrat’s logic. The Congress can impeach the president while he’s in office but it would be meaningless if there is no trial. There can be no indictment without a trial...it is one process. Holding an indictment for a preferred Senate makeup is also questionable. A former president or any former office holder subject to impeachment is a private citizen and not subject to senate trial proceedings in an impeachment process. Otherwise we’d all be in jeopardy of political trials...that would be fricking stupid in our system of laws. The Constitution considered impeachment as a single process for sitting office holders. A trial 100 days after he left office for the purpose of declaring him unqualified to run in the future is Democrat wishful thinking. If charges were forwarded to a federal court and he were to be tried for what would be considered “high crimes and misdemeanors,” one would think that too would be laughable. The charges of inciting a coup or an insurrection are political drama and nothing more of substance. So those as charges in a federal court would be nothing more than harassment. This is asinine.
@8:21 Pelosi and her minions are making the impeachment process a joke! This is a serious offense and not done on a whim because you don't agree on his political views! She's just afraid of what's coming on January 20!Hahahahaha!
January 11, 2021 at 12:37 AM
I D I O T A !
Idiotas! The cop that was supposedly killed by blows from a fire extinguisher was a simple Government Psychological operations (PSYOP)! Done to make Trump and his supporters look like thugs! No one died I can promise you that. This is why we need to get rid of people like Nasty Pelosi and the others corrupted politicians! It's time the American people wake up before we completely lose all our rights as an American! Freedom of speech will soon be eliminated!
Term Limits for the City commissioners has Brownsville Police Chief Felix "El Chapo" Sauceda in tears and crapping in his pants! Since he has done absolutely nothing for the Brownsville Police Department except allowed corruption and favoritism to run wild within the Department!
#worstchiefever...
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