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Pro-Trump State Lawmaker Among Rioters Charged with Storming US Capitol

Masood Farivar

   WASHINGTON - A pro-Trump state lawmaker who filmed himself storming the
   U.S. Capitol and an Arkansas man who was photographed with his foot on
   the desk of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are among more than a dozen
   rioters charged so far by federal prosecutors as part of a far-ranging
   investigation into Wednesday's attack on the Capitol, federal officials
   announced Friday.

   Derrick Evans, a Republican member of the West Virginia House of
   Delegates, was charged with entering a restricted area on the Capitol
   grounds. Evans broadcast a Facebook Live video of himself breaking into
   the building with a crowd of rioters, at one point saying, "We're in,
   we're in, baby." In an earlier video posted on Facebook, Evans warned
   that the rioters would storm the building.

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