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A crowd of Trump supporters march on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, eventually leading to a violent siege of the building. (Photo: TapTheForwardAssist, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)
Police on Friday indicted a Colorado youth pastor who participated in the Capitol riot on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges, according to a Justice Department release.
The FBI was able to identify the pastor, Tyler Ethridge, after a Bible college colleague tipped them off, saying he had bragged about his participation in the riot last year on social media.
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 and inside the chamber.”
Video captured on the day of the event shows him acknowledging the risk to his job.
“I’m probably going to lose my job as a pastor after this,” he said, according to court documents.
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