A university student accused of sitting in the Senate chamber chair of then-Vice President Mike Pence during the storming of the U.S. Capitol last month has been arrested in California.
Christian Alexander Secor, 22, was allegedly among a group of rioters that stormed the building on January 6. He is accused of pushing through a doorway that was blocked by three police officers before marauding through the building with hundreds of other protesters.
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According to a criminal complaint filed the same day in the District of Columbia, tipsters provided images and videos of Secor inside the U.S. Capitol Building, both standing on the floor of the Senate chamber and sitting in the Chair of the Presiding Officer on the upper tier of the two-tiered dais at the head of the Senate chamber.
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Tipsters claimed Secor, who also goes by the alias "Scuffed Elliot Rodger," defines himself as a fascist and has posted threats online and openly posted calls for America to become a whites-only nation.
Secor, the court document said, is "known to follow an extreme ideology and invite white nationalists to speak at engagements on campus."
A trawl of Secor's Twitter account showed he described fascism as "epic," the documents said.
Secor appeared in a federal court in Santa Ana on Tuesday.
He was charged on suspicion of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers, violent entry and remaining on restricted grounds, civil disorder and obstructing an official proceeding. He was ordered to be held without bail.