Judge grants bond to ‘Pink hat lady’ from Mercer County charged in Capitol riot – By Paula Reed Ward (Trib Live) / Feb 9 2021
The video showed Rachel Powell leaning through the window of the Capitol building, shouting at those who had just breached it.
“Hey, guys, I’ve been in the other room,” she yelled through a bullhorn. “People should probably coordinate if we’re going to take this building.”
FBI Special Agent Carlos Fontanez testified during a detention hearing on Tuesday that Powell was part of the mob that rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6. She used a large pipe like a battering ram to break a window and then attempted to motivate the people inside that room by telling them how to get to another room below.
“Did she tell them they had another window to break?” asked Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica Smolar.
“Yes,” Fontanez replied.
