Eric Munchel, Capitol Rioter With Zip Ties, and His Mother Charged With Conspiracy – By Christina Zhao (Newsweek) / January 17 2021
Authorities have charged Eric Munchel, the Capitol rioter carrying zip ties, and his mother with conspiracy after footage of the January 6 insurrection showed the duo with a mob of President Donald Trump supporters.
© Win McNamee/Getty Protesters enter the Senate Chamber on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC.
Munchel and Lisa Eisenhart were charged with “knowingly and wilfully conspiring with persons known and unknown,” according to an FBI filing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The FBI said video footage taken from inside the Capitol building “captures Eisenhart and Munchel in the vicinity of a mob of individuals that are physically attacking two Capitol Police officers guarding entry into the Senate chambers.”
In one video, officers being chased by a mob of rioters can be seen running past the mother-son duo, prompting them to join behind the group, the FBI explained. Another clip of the incident shows Munchel and Eisenhart among the mob “inside the Senate chambers, having entered through the very area that the officers were guarding before the assault.”
