San Francisco Chronicle - (Sunday)
Right-wing website host charged in riot
The host of a program for the right-wing website Infowars, Owen Shroyer, has been charged in connection to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Shroyer, who hosts “The War Room With Owen Shroyer” for the website operated by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, said on air Friday that his lawyer informed him there’s a warrant out for his arrest and that he will have to turn himself in Monday.
“There’s a lot of questions, some I have answers to, some I don’t . ... I plan on declaring innocence of these charges because I am,” Shroyer said in a video posted on the Infowars website. He faces misdemeanor charges including disorderly conduct and entering a restricted area of Capitol grounds.
Authorities say video shows Shroyer marching to the Capitol from the Ellipse shortly before the building was breached, telling the crowd “today we march for the Capitol because on this historic January 6, 2021, we have to let our Congressmen and women know, and we have to let Mike Pence know, they stole the election, we know they stole it, and we aren’t going to accept it!”
Shroyer was seen on the west side of the Capitol next to the inauguration stage as well as at the top of the stairs on the east side of the Capitol, authorities said in court documents.
Nearly 600 people have been charged with federal crimes in the deadly riot that interrupted the certification of President Biden’s victory, and nearly 40 people have pleaded guilty.
Dozens of people — including a former Tennessee sheriff ’s deputy arrested last week — have been charged with assaulting law enforcement officers who were trying to protect the Capitol.