Caught on tape. FBI agents scoured thousands of hours of video on social media to identify individuals in the Trump mob that violently forced its way inside the Capitol. Victoria White of Rochester was at several hot points and hardly looking on meekly. Here she’s circled for FBI identification purposes in a red Trump cap and black coat. In the melees that followed she lost the cap and coat but was still identifiable.
Prosecutions for 2021 Capitol riot now top 1,000
WASHINGTON — A Minnesota woman pleaded guilty to invading the U.S. Capitol with the January 6 insurrection mob in 2021. In a plea deal. Victoria Charity White, 41, of Rochester, admitted to a single count of civil disorder and aiding and abetting. Federal Judge John Bates scheduled sentencing for November. One insurrectionist leader, Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers, has been sent away for 14 years. Most sentences have been far less, some a short as six months plus sharing in $1.5 million of costs to repair the Capitol. Originally White was charged with violently entering Capitol grounds, entering a restricted building or grounds, and obstructing justice. According t court documents and other sources, this what White did:
Circled in red. In this FBI screen capture.
> She drove from Rochester to Washington to a post-election rally organized by outgoing President Donald Trump to overturn his bid for re-election, which he had lost.
> She attended the Trump rally on the Ellipsis outside the White House, where he prodded the supporters to march on the Capitol, where Congress was in session to ratify the election of Joe Biden to replace Trump.
> On Capitol Hill she pushed her way toward a tunnel entrance, where police were preventing rioters from entering the building.
> As the mob chanted, “Pull the cops out.” White raised her fist and cheered as the rioters forced a large flagpole into the entryway where the officers stood guard.
> White pushed her way closer to the entrance, where she helped to hoist up another rioter who proceeded to assault officers. She pointed and cheered as a rioter swung from the top of the entryway and kicked officers.
> She made her way to the lower West Terrace entrance. After losing her red cap and black coat in the chaos, she grabbed for one of the officers standing on a ledge. Officers pushed White back with their riot shields and fended her off with a baton. White then grabbed one of the shields and blocked the baton with her hand.
> Minutes later, officers apprehended White and escorted out of the Capitol.
FBI agents arrested White two months late, They had open-source video of her with rioters who were attempting to break the glass doors of a Capitol entrance. Despite the video she originally pleaded not guilty. In the 31 months since insurrection, 1,100 individuals have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the Capitol. She was held briefly and released.