January 20, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – The FBI arrested a man who entered the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 and who told LifeSiteNews about his experience hours after it happened. His video interview quickly went viral. It has been viewed over 2.2 million times as of press time.
Leo Kelly, 35, was arrested in his hometown of Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Jan. 18. He was charged with knowingly entering a restricted building without lawful authority and with “violent entry with intent to disrupt the orderly conduct of official business and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.”
Kelly made a scheduled appearance at the Cedar Rapids Federal Courthouse yesterday. He had no attorney lined up to represent him. On January 14, Kelly had contacted a Deputy U.S. Marshal, an acquaintance of his, and said he would turn himself in if an arrest warrant was issued for him.
FBI Special Agent Michael McGillicuddy referred to Kelly’s Jan. 6 interview with LifeSite in his Jan. 16 Statement of Fact.
During the interview, Kelly related how on Jan. 6 he had listened to then-President Donald Trump’s speech at the Ellipse in front of the White House before making his way with fellow marchers down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the
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