Infowars video editor pleads guilty to storming Capitol

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.

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