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From the Justice Department:
A Tennessee man was arrested today for assaulting a law enforcement officer and breaking a window and damaging a door during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
His and others’ actions disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
Edward Kelley, 33, of Maryville, Tennessee, is charged in a criminal complaint filed in the District of Columbia with assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers, civil disorder, destruction of government property, and related offenses.
He was arrested in Knoxville and is to make his initial appearance today in the Eastern District of Tennessee.
According to court documents, on Jan. 6, Kelley was among a crowd of rioters illegally gathered at the Capitol Building.
He was wearing a gas mask and green tactical helmet and had a backpack secured across his chest.
Kelley moved to the scaffolding over the stairs of the West Front of the Capitol Building, where he and two other men got into an altercation with a Capitol Police officer.
Kelley also pushed and pulled on a metal barricade as he made his way to the outside of the Senate Wing Door.
He then used a piece of wood to breach the window adjacent to the Senate Wing Door. He was the fourth rioter to enter the building through the window.
After entering through the breached window, Kelley moved to the still closed Senate Wing Door and kicked it open, which allowed other rioters to enter.
#ParaSnooper Arrested Edward Kelley https://t.co/PVVNCOFKsj pic.twitter.com/Lws6EHV1bt
— #SeditionHunters (@SeditionHunters) May 5, 2022
The arrests continue in the Capitol Attack. The latest is a Tennessee man, Edward Kelley. Kelley was the fourth person to enter the Capitol through broken windows on the Senate side on Jan. 6. He then kicked open the doors for others. pic.twitter.com/WFLzlOiNP4
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) May 5, 2022
Kelley was part of the group of rioters slowed down by Officer Eugene Goodman. This is on the first floor just before the West stairs. In the background left, that is reporter @igorbobic behind Goodman, shooting video of the confrontation. pic.twitter.com/TAo8W0aqYt
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) May 5, 2022
In the DOJ statement of facts about Kelley, he is further identified from a ‘TCAPP’ sweatshirt, which the feds say stands for ‘The Church at Planned Parenthood’ in Maryville, TN, where Kelley is from. pic.twitter.com/As3FGOhbMC
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) May 5, 2022
He finally makes it as far as the Senate gallery. The criminal complaint charges him with, among other things, assaulting police officers, but indictments in similar cases often add a charge of corruptly obstructing an official proceeding (max 20yrs). https://t.co/4dXDlpYQiK 5/5 pic.twitter.com/JVIAwf7vsY
— Roger Parloff (@rparloff) May 5, 2022