Many of President Donald Trump’s supporters who participated in the US Capitol rebellion last week were not shy about revealing their identities.
While protesters climbed the barricades and entered the building, people – often without a mask – broadcast the events live, posted photos on social media and paraded through the building, breaking windows and destroying property while members of Congress hid.
Now, federal officials are using the images that some protesters have posted to make arrests, as more information comes to light about who broke into the Capitol.
Here are some of the people who participated in the confusion.
Richard Barnett
An image of Richard Barnett – captured with his foot on a table in the office of Mayor, Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. – quickly went viral last week. Barnett seemed relaxed as he reclined in an office chair and later took an envelope from his office.
“I wrote her a nasty note,” said Barnett, 60, of Gravette, Arkansas, by a New York Times reporter who tweeted that he spoke to Barnett after he left Pelosi’s office.
He was arrested on Friday in Arkansas on federal charges of entering and staying in restricted areas, violent entry and theft of public property, the Justice Department said.
Barnett said he knocked on the door, but was taken inside by other troublemakers.
The mayor of his hometown, Kurt Maddox, condemned his alleged actions, saying, “It is a pity that something like this is what puts you in the public eye.”
Jake Angeli
Jake Angeli was among the people whose images became the public faces of the rebellion. Wearing a fur hat with horns and face painting inspired by the American flag, Angeli invaded the Capitol with bare chests and rejoiced in the aftermath.
“The fact that we have a bunch of our traitors in the office crouching, putting on their gas masks and retreating to the underground bunker, I consider that a victory,” said Angeli, 33, last week.
Angeli, whose legal name is Jacob Anthony Chansley, is a YouTuber who supports QAnon and is also among the pro-Trump protesters who met in front of the Maricopa County Election Department in Phoenix on November 5, claiming the election was stolen.
He was arrested on Saturday in connection with the riot. Michael Sherwin, the acting United States attorney for the District of Columbia, said Angeli was accused of “intentionally entering or staying in any restricted building or land without legal authority and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.” Before being taken into custody, Angeli compared his actions to those of Mohandas K. Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
“What I was doing was civil disobedience,” he said. “I didn’t do anything wrong … I came in through an open door, man.”
Leonard Guthrie
Leonard Guthrie, from Cape May, New Jersey, attended the protest and does not blame Trump for the violence.
Guthrie, 48, told NBC Philadelphia that he did not enter the building and was arrested after crossing the police line, admitting that he “disobeyed a law”.
Calling the protesters who broke into the building “stupid”, Guthrie said his actions “were not the reason for that”.
“This was about revival. It wasn’t about kicking doors,” he said, emphasizing that he did not believe that Trump incited violence.
In some of his public posts, Guthrie talks about the threat of a loose collection of activists known as antifa: “We can be called groups of aluminum foil hats, but I will use my aluminum foil knowing that my family and the militia family are ready for the case. “
Guthrie, who did not return requests for comment, was arrested on the day of the riot and accused of illegal entry. He was released overnight and, on the way back home, hit a deer.
“Nice ending to what started as a day full of God,” he said of the collision.
Mark Leffingwell
Mark Leffingwell was accused Thursday of assaulting a federal police officer.
The Justice Department alleged that Leffingwell “entered the Capitol on the Senate side and, when interrupted by law enforcement, hit an officer in the helmet and chest.” He was also accused of illegal and violent entry.
Seattle’s Leffingwell was released in personal recognition to his wife, the NBC KING affiliate in Seattle reported. Leffingwell could not be reached for comment on Monday.
Eric Gavelek Munchel
Eric Gavelek Munchel, whom the Internet dubbed the “zip-tie guy”, was arrested on Sunday on federal charges.
Munchel, of Tennessee, was “charged with an accusation of intentionally entering or staying in any restricted building or land without legal authority and an accusation of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds,” said the Justice Department. It is not clear whether Munchel has a lawyer.
Munchel, a former Florida bartender, was photographed in the Senate chamber wearing a mask and carrying plastic restraints known as flexible handcuffs.
“Photos showing his presence show a person who appears to be Munchel carrying plastic restraints, an item in a holster on his right hip and a cell phone mounted on his chest with the camera facing outward, apparently to record the events of that day” , authorities said.
Derrick Evans
One of the people who forced members of Congress to hide from the turmoil was himself a legislator.
The man, Derrick Evans, a Republican state representative in West Virginia, was arrested by federal officials on Friday on charges of entering a restricted building with a violent entrance.
Evans “broadcast live on his Facebook page a video of himself joining and encouraging a crowd that illegally enters the United States Capitol,” the Justice Department said in a press release.
In the deleted video, Evans shouted, “We’re in! We’re in! Derrick Evans is on Capitol Hill!” according to the authorities.
“Bring the tear gas. We don’t care,” heard Evans shouting. “We are recovering this country, whether you want it or not. Today is a test. We are recovering this country.”
At another point, he asks, “Where are the Proud Boys?” referring to the self-described group of the extreme right, formed only by men, of “western chauvinists”.
As the protesters passed the police, Evans said in the stream that he had not touched anything and was just watching. Evans told people not to vandalize before shouting, “Patriots inside, baby.”
In a Facebook post defending his actions, Evans said he was there as an “independent member of the media”.
The Democratic Party of West Virginia called for Evans to resign. Before his arrest, his lawyer said he would not resign because “he was exercising his First Amendment rights to protest peacefully and film a historic and dynamic event”.
But Evans resigned on Saturday in a short letter to the state governor, who provided no comment other than the announcement.
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson, 36, was accused of entering or staying in any restricted building, theft of government property and violent entry to Capitol grounds after being seen carrying the Chamber speaker ‘s pulpit through the Capitol.
Authorities said they found Johnson from Parrish, Fla., Through an “open source search” while his image carrying the pulpit was spread across the country.
In the photo, Johnson smiled while wearing a Trump hat.
Johnson, a father of five, was released on Monday, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
“He would like to just come home and to his family,” his lawyer, David Bigney, told the Times.
Johnson and his lawyer could not be reached immediately for comment on Monday.
Aaron Mostofsky
The son of a New York judge was among the troublemakers.
The man, Aaron Mostofsky, wore furs while attacking the Capitol. A spokesman for his father, Judge Shlomo Mostofsky, of the Kings County Supreme Court in Brooklyn, confirmed to Law360 that he was, in fact, his son pictured on Capitol Hill.
In an interview with the New York Post during the rebellion, Aaron Mostofsky, who gave only his first name, said he invaded Capitol because the election was “stolen”. The Post said Mostofsky was holding a Capitol Police riot shield, which he claimed to have found on the ground.
He was spotted by the Post leaving his home on Friday and it is not clear whether the charges are being made.
A representative of his father, the judge, did not respond to requests for comment.