Ameriprise Advisor Arrested on Jan. 6 Riot Charges

Giobbie can be heard in an open-source video repeatedly shouting, “Move the gates!” before the bike rack barricades in this area were breached, the release says, citing court documents. Video footage then captured Giobbie walking toward other rioters as they were violently pushed against the bike rack barricades and the police. He repeatedly stated, “We’re going in,” and “The gates have been breached,” prosecutors allege.

After other rioters had pushed past police, Giobbie moved a barricade and entered a Capitol grounds area that had been cordoned off and restricted from public access, according to prosecutors.

He then walked by police in riot gear and was one of the first rioters to the Capitol building’s central steps as police fell back and formed a new defensive line. Giobbie then turned, faced the crowd, shouted “Stop the steal” through a bullhorn, and led chants of “USA” on the central steps, according to the prosecutors’ statement.

He then faced police on the steps and shouted, “Push, push, push, push,” while standing one row back from other rioters who were pushing against the police line. Additionally, Giobbie can be seen in an open-source video pushing against other rioters who were, in turn, pushing against the police line, and then rushed by the police line toward the Rotunda doors after the police line broke and a huge mass of rioters rushed up the central steps, prosecutors say.

Near the Rotunda doors, Giobbie shouted into the bullhorn, “We need something to break the door down!,” according to prosecutors. During a confrontation with police outside the doors, a U.S. Capitol Police officer is seen grabbing Giobbie’s left arm, then Giobbie pushed the officer’s arm away and used his left forearm to push against the officer’s riot shield, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.

Giobbie was among the first rioters to enter the Capitol via the Rotunda doors within minutes after other rioters breached it, aggressively pushing his way through the doors as police were actively trying to defend it, the prosectutors say.

Prosecutors also say that once he was in the Capitol, Giobbie made his way to the Small Senate Rotunda, and was briefly detained by a police officer in a hallway. He then walked to the northwest side of the building and exited through the Senate wing door, leading to the Northwest courtyard, they say.

In addition to the U.S. attorney’s office for the District of Columbia, the Department of Justice National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section is prosecuting the case, which is being investigated by the FBI’s Newark and Washington field offices.

Images from open source video and Facebook presented in federal complaint.