A Georgia lawyer boasted that he and other protesters “kicked Nancy Pelosi’s office door” and the mayor shied away from being “shattered,” according to a criminal complaint.
William McCall Calhoun Jr., an attorney from Americus, Georgia, has been accused of entering a restricted building, violent or disorderly conduct and obstructing official government procedures, according to an FBI statement asking for his arrest.
The FBI’s National Threat Operations Center received a tip that Calhoun documented – in words and video on social media – his role in the January 6 deadly riot at the United States Capitol, according to the deposition.
Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in hopes of preventing Congress from formalizing President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. At least five people died as a result of the violence.
Calhoun said the “crowd” searched Pelosi’s “inner sanctuary”, according to his Facebook post cited in the statement.
“And look at this – the first of us who went up the stairs kicked Nancy Pelosi’s office door and pushed the corridor towards her inner sanctuary, the crowd howling with rage,” wrote Calhoun, according to the FBI.
“Crazy Nancy probably would have broken up, but she was nowhere to be found.”
Calhoun’s Facebook and Parler accounts, cited in the statement, appear to have been deleted on Tuesday afternoon.
The suspect was taken into custody on Friday and will remain in prison until his bail hearing on Thursday, according to a spokeswoman for the US Attorney’s Office in the Central District of Georgia.
A lawyer for Calhoun did not immediately return messages asking for comment.
Calhoun, who practices criminal and insurance law, was in good standing and not subject to any discipline, according to the Georgia Bar Association records.
An association spokesman declined to discuss Calhoun on Tuesday afternoon, but said in a statement: “The Order only has jurisdiction over lawyers in their professional lives, so the rules do not cover personal conduct unless a member be convicted of a crime. “
He has been licensed to practice law in Georgia since 1990.
