Law & Crime report…
William McCall Calhoun Jr., an attorney from Americus, Georgia, has been charged over his alleged participation in the siege of the U.S. Capitol Complex on Jan. 6.
A redacted charging document in the federal case was recently made public. Calhoun reportedly made his first court appearance last Friday, according to Atlanta-based NBC affiliate WXIA-TV.
The FBI claims Calhoun was one of the first pro-Trump rioters to lay waste House Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s (D-Calif.) office before bragging about his alleged exploits on social media.
“[G]et this – the first of us who got upstairs kicked in Nancy Pelosi’s office door and pushed down the hall towards her inner sanctum, the mob howling with rage,” a Facebook post attributed to Calhoun reads. “Crazy Nancy probably would have been torn into little pieces, but she was nowhere to be seen – then a swat team showed, and we retreated back to the rotunda and continued our hostile take over [sic] of the Capitol Building.”
That same post also appears to document Calhoun’s initial breach of the laxly-enforced barriers on that fateful and ultimately deadly day:
