The U.S. Capitol on lockdown as violent clashes broke out between supporters of President Donald Trump and police. At a rally about an hour before the group broke through police lines at the Capitol, Trump had urged them to go to the building. A Kentucky husband and wife were arrested Tuesday by federal agents for allegedly participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the FBI announced. Lori Ann Vinson, a nurse, and Thomas Ray Vinson were arrested by federal agents in Owensboro Tuesday afternoon, the FBI said. Their charges include knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct which impedes the conduct of government business, disruptive conduct in the Capitol buildings, and parading, demonstrating or picketing the Capitol buildings. And late Tuesday night, the FBI in Louisville announced that they had arrested Clayton Ray Mullins, of Benton, on Tuesday, charging him with multiple offenses in connection with the riot, including assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers; obstruction of law enforcement during a civil disorder; violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds; and knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds. Unsealed court documents showed that Mullins was believed to have assaulted a police officer by grabbing his leg while on the ground and pulling him down steps outside the Capitol, according to an affidavit written by the FBI.
Mullins was expected to make his first appearance in court Wednesday, the FBI said. Lori Vinson made headlines shortly after the riot when she spoke to multiple media outlets about entering the Capitol on Jan. 6 and said she’d been fired for it. Vinson said she “would do it again tomorrow.” Timothy Beam, a spokesman for the FBI in Louisville, confirmed that the Vinson arrested was the same one who appeared in those reports. She said she was fired from Ascension St. Vincent hospital in Evansville, Ind.
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