Rioter Who Claimed Riot Was “All Antifa” Pleads Guilty

Law & Crime reports:

An Ohio man who claimed to believe that the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was “all Antifa” has pleaded guilty to storming the building. Stephen Michael Ayres, 39, admitted Wednesday to engaging in disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds on Jan. 6.

Ayres was featured in a video posted to YouTube in which he and two other people were talking about Jan. 6. The video was labeled: “It was all Antifa breaking into the Capitol 1-6-2021.”

“It’s not over, trust me,” a man — not Ayres — on the video said. “The purpose of today was to expose Pence as a traitor.” “Yup,” Ayres responded, adding that “fake news” media would not accurately report on what happened at the Capitol.

Read the full article. Ayres, who faces up to a year on the misdemeanor conviction, was arrested with a man who later killed himself in jail after pleading guilty to a felony, creating another martyr for the “cause.”