According to a Justice Department release, police indicted a Colorado youth pastor who was involved in the Capitol riot.
The FBI was able to identify the pastor, Tyler Ethridge, after a Bible college colleague tipped them off.
According to the DOJ release, the Bible college attendee, who was not named in supporting court documents released by the Justice Department, told the FBI that Ethridge was telling everyone on Facebook about being on scaffolding outside Nancy Pelosi's office.
He acknowledges the risk to his job in the video.
He said he was likely to lose his job as a pastor after this.
One police officer was killed in the Capitol riot. The Vice reporter said that members of the Proud Boys were present.
Despite Democrat Joe Biden's election victory, organizers were encouraged by former President Donald Trump's calls to protest. While members of Congress were meeting in the Capitol to certify the results and verify Biden's presidency, Trump supporters staged an attempted coup.
insurrectionists deleted photos and social-media posts that proved they participated in the Capitol riot. Some broke their phones, scrubbed their social media accounts, and tried to wipe their hard drives of evidence of their involvement.
Ethridge made it easier for the FBI to catch and charge them.
According to court documents, after the riot, Ethridge told his social media friends to not be afraid of what they would be sentenced to.
I'm not He said he was ready for whatever he would be charged with. America is prepared.
More than 870 people have been charged in connection with the insurrection.
Civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding are some of the charges against Ethridge.