Infowars video editor pleads guilty to storming Capitol

Rioters loyal to former US president Donald Trump rally at the US Capitol in Washington on January 6 2021 (Jose Luis Magana/AP)

A Texas man described as a video editor for the conspiracy theory-promoting Infowars website has pleaded guilty to storming the US Capitol, where he captured footage of the scene where a police officer fatally shot a California woman who joined the mob’s attack.

Samuel Christopher Montoya faces a maximum sentence of six months of imprisonment after pleading guilty to a misdemeanour count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building.