MINNEAPOLIS – Federal agents swooped in on Brian Christopher Mock, 42, at his Minneapolis home with an arrest warrant alleging a brutal role in the attempted Trump Insurrection at the U.S. Capital in January. The criminal complaint includes video of Mock shoving an U.S. Capitol police officer to the ground while another rioter grabbed the officer’s leg. Mock then appeared to kick the officer as he lay on the ground, according to the charging documents. Mock shoved a second officer to the ground and then picked up and passed multiple Capitol Police riot shields to members of the “violent riot crowd,” according to the document. The video is from body-worn camera footage from an officer in the Lower West Terrace area of the Capitol. Mock was first identified through a screenshot that the FBI posted to its website asking for assistance to find him. In a man wearing the same clothes as the man captured in the body-worn camera footage He was posing with a woman in front of the Minnesota pillar at the World War II Memorial in Washington.
Big Guy talk? The FBI quotes a Mock acquaintance as bragging he “beat the shit” out of a police officer. Braggadoccio? Sure. For real? FBI says yes.
A good-bye to kids
The criminal complaint against Mock cites a moving yet incriminating online message from Mock: “I went to the Capitol not knowing what to expect but said goodbye to my 4 children, not sure if I was going to come home. I was at peace with that knowledge. I held my own and then some when I watched Capitol police beating women and old men. When faced with real men, free men, brave men, they fled with fear and tears in their eyes. I supported the blue big.”
Mock in Washington. With womanfriend at Minnesota Pillar at World War II Memorial.
In action. FBI places Mock in heat of Capitol battle.
Wanted poster. FBI had Mock’s photo before knowing who he was or where.