A woman who was arrested in connection with the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill allegedly said she wanted to shoot the mayor Nancy Pelosi
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Two women, Dawn Bancroft and Diana Santos-Smith, were arrested in Pennsylvania on Friday in connection with the attack on the Capitol, according to the Department of Justice (DOJ).
According to a criminal complaint, the FBI received a complaint about a week after the riot with a video allegedly made by Bancroft showing her and Santos-Smith trying to leave the Capitol.
During the video, Bancroft allegedly said, “We broke into Capitol. … We enter. We did our part. ”
Bancroft continued, “We were looking for Nancy to shoot her in the brain, but we didn’t find her,” which the FBI agent believed was a reference to Pelosi.
The FBI said that when it interviewed Santos-Smith around Inauguration Day, she initially said that she attended the January 6 rally, but did not enter the Capitol. She later admitted to being inside the building after watching the video.
On the day of the unrest, a crowd of Trump supporters breached the building’s security and smashed windows, wandered the halls and vandalized lawmakers’ offices, including Pelosi’s. One man was photographed on a chair in Pelosi’s office, and another man was seen carrying the Speaker’s pulpit in the building.
Both women said they had been inside the building for no more than a minute and had made videos from inside the Capitol. Bancroft sent the video to his children, according to the authorities, and later instructed them to delete it.
Women were accused of intentionally entering or staying in any restricted building or land without legal authority; consciously engage in disorderly or disturbing conduct in any restricted building or land; and violent entry and disorderly conduct on the Capitol, according to the DOJ.
News of Bancroft’s comment comes as the police increase security to monitor lawmakers amid increasing threats.
More than 5,000 national guards are expected to remain in Washington, DC, at least until mid-March, and Capitol police officers will be parked at various DC airports, as well as at Union Station to monitor lawmakers while traveling.
More than 150 arrests have been made so far in connection with the riot that led to five deaths, including that of a Capitol police officer.