An Oakdale man climbed through a broken window of the U.S. Capitol building during a Washington, D.C., riot earlier this month, taking a chair from inside and attempting to smash a window with a baseball bat, according to federal charges filed Tuesday. Jorden Mink, 27, faces a half-dozen charges including destruction of government property and theft of government property. A second Western Pennsylvania man — Matthew Perna, 36, of Sharon — is charged with entering a restricted building and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds. The deadly riots Jan. 6 saw thousands of Trump supporters descend on the Capitol during a joint session of Congress to affirm Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. Five people died in the unrest: a Capitol Police officer, a rioter shot by police trying to climb through a shattered door and three others who suffered medical emergencies. (…) Authorities said they used Mink’s neck and finger tattoos to confirm his identity in the footage, which allegedly showed him using a baseball bat to shatter a window. Footage also allegedly showed Mink climbing through a broken window into the Capitol building, grabbing a chair and passing it to the crowd outside, according to the complaint. Authorities searched Mink’s social media accounts and found a photo he’d posted of himself at the Lincoln Memorial on Jan. 3, according to the complaint. On Nov. 3, Election Day, authorities said he posted a photo of himself holding a firearm with an “I Voted” sticker on it with the caption, “The ballot is stronger than the bullet,” attributing the quote to Abraham Lincoln. The caption continued: “Well … my magazines will be fully loaded just in case it’s not.”
via triblive: Feds: Oakdale man stormed Capitol with baseball bat, stole chair
