WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES. – Their faces have been around the world since they stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, photographed with their feet on a congressman’s desk, marching a Confederate flag, or sitting in the Senate President’s office.
Who are these supporters of Donald Trump, so stunned by the president’s rhetoric that they wreaked havoc in the US Congress?
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Many have already been identified, including the woman who was fatally injured. Then the main elements are collected about some of them, most of which are active on social networks.
Richard Barnett from the agency
Originally from Arkansas (South), this 60-year-old with a strong Southern accent stormed the office of Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi.
It’s “my office,” he told the local KFSM 5News on Wednesday. ‘I am a taxpayer. I am a patriot. It’s not your office. We lent it to you. ‘
Known locally for running a pro-gun Facebook group, 2A NWA STAND, Richard Barnett claims he was found in this office by chance. “They pushed me here,” he said when “I searched the bathroom.”
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Nicknamed ‘Bigo’, the man dropped an insulting note addressed to Pelosi before he left.
After the events at the Capitol, Barnett knew he might be arrested. “Am I scared? No! But jail time is a possibility,” he told reporters after leaving the building.
Jake Angeli, The Bison Horned
With a bare chested and a Native American bison horn cap, this “spiritual warrior” – as he describes himself – carried photographers and videographers from the four corners of the Capitol like a magnet.
Originally from Arizona, Jake Angeli has been seen countless times at pro-Trump protests in Phoenix in recent months, always wearing his now-famous headdress.
The 30-year-old presents himself as “a digital soldier of QAnon,” the conspiratorial movement that made Trump a hero and considers Wednesday’s invasion a triumph.
“We are patriots, on the Arizona front, looking to bring our positive energy to (Washington),” he wrote in a December post on the ultra-conservative’s favorite social network, Parler.
Matthew Heimbach, the neo-Nazi militant
Photographed with Jake Angeli, this 29-year-old round-faced man with rimless glasses has been described by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an observatory of extremist groups, as “the face of a new generation of white nationalists.”
He is considered one of the organizers of the far-right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, on the sidelines of which a woman was murdered by a neo-Nazi sympathizer.
Adam Johnson, the one on the podium
Surprised by the camera when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi took the stage, this 30-year-old with a Trump cap made a friendly gesture to the photographer, with a smile.
He was soon identified as Adam Johnson, a resident of Parrish, Florida, according to the local press.
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Right now, his wife, a doctor, is the one paying the consequences. Now the many sites referring to her are inundated with sarcastic reports of her husband’s vandalism.
Ashli Babbitt, the woman who died
He was the first known victim of Wednesday’s violence. While trying to get through a broken window in a convention hall, the woman was shot at close range by a Capitol police officer. He later succumbed to his injuries.
Babbitt, in her early 30s, Californian, conspiratorial and “ libertarian, ” believed the pro-Donald Trump march in Washington, according to her Twitter account, to be like a “ storm ” that would bring the country “ out of the dark. ”