What happened to the key figures behind the US Capitol riots?
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Four years after the January 6 Capitol riot shocked the US and the world, former and President-elect Donald Trump is preparing for his return to the White House. More than 1,580 rioters have been criminally indicted since January 6, 2021, when an angry mob of Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the election for Joe Biden.
![[FILE - FILE - In this Jan. 6, 2021 file photo, supporters of President Donald Trump, including Jacob Chansley, right with fur hat, are confronted by U.S. Capitol Police officers outside the Senate Chamber inside the Capitol in Washington. On Friday, March 10, 2023, The Associated Press reported on stories circulating online incorrectly claiming footage from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol shows that Chansley was ???led through the Capitol by police the entire time he was in the building.??? (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_147703845-18d9.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
Trump was indicted for inciting an insurrection, but the court proceedings were dropped after he won the November 2024 election. Over 900 insurrectionists have been sentenced and more than half of them have been sent to prison since. But Trump has vowed to pardon at least some of them shortly after he is sworn in as the country’s 47th president on Inauguration Day on January 20. As the nation remains divided on January 6, here is what has happened to some of the key figures from that unprecedented day:.
Jacob Chansley, nicknamed ‘QAnon Shaman’ for donning a horned fur headdress and carrying an American flag and painting his face to match it, became a face of the Capitol riot. Chansley was one of the first 30 insurrectionists to break into the Capitol Building. He snapped photos of himself on the Senate chamber dais and called then-Vice President Mike Pence a ‘traitor’. He was arrested several days after the riot and indicted on six charges.
![[FILE PHOTO: Oath Keepers militia founder Stewart Rhodes poses during an interview session in Eureka, Montana, U.S. June 20, 2016. Picture taken June 20, 2016. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart/File Photo]](https://metro.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/SEI_123829431-3828.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=646)
