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L.A. County employee charged in Capitol breach

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A Los Angeles County employee was arrested Monday on federal charges alleging she was among the crowd that breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Lois Lynn McNicoll, 69, a Department of Public Social Services employee, made her initial appearance in Los Angeles federal court following her arrest and was released on a $10,000 bond, according to FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller.

McNicoll is charged in federal court in the District of Columbia with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, according to a federal criminal complaint made public Monday.

McNicoll was  identified in a screenshot posted on social media showing a female wearing a white hat emblazoned with the name “Trump,” according to federal prosecutors, who stated that the screenshot taken from TV news footage was provided to law enforcement by a fellow DPSS employee.

McNicoll is also pictured with a red-and-white flag bearing the words “Trump Country” draped over her shoulders in shots from Capitol closed- circuit TV after she entered the Capitol on the afternoon of Jan. 6, according to federal prosecutors. At one point, the defendant took out what appeared to be a cell phone and appeared to be recording videos and taking pictures from inside the building, according to an affidavit attached to the complaint.

A message seeking comment sent to the DPSS communications director was not immediately answered.

The affidavit states that on May 18, the defendant consented to be interviewed by a special agent with the FBI at her workplace.

McNicoll allegedly told the agent that she traveled to the District of Columbia specifically to hear former President Donald Trump speak on the morning of Jan. 6. Afterward, she “marched to the Capitol with a large group, walking up the stairs of the Capitol building and entering through doors that had already been forced open,” according to the affidavit.

McNicoll denied taking any photos or video while inside the Capitol, according to the affidavit. The document alleges that the statement is “inconsistent” with images from Capitol CCTV apparently showing the defendant taking photos with a cellphone.

Tens of thousands of people gathered on the National Mall on the morning of Jan. 6 to hear Trump recite a litany of what he claimed were fraudulent actions in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that cost him the election. The same allegations were made within a few days of the Nov. 3 general election and repeated multiple times by Trump.

The ensuing melee inside the building broke up the Electoral College vote deliberations and culminated in the fatal shooting of a Southern California resident. U.S. Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt, 35, of Ocean Beach, was struck by a single bullet fired at point-blank range by a Capitol police officer as she climbed through a broken window.

According to the DOJ, the investigation into the Jan. 6 breach is ongoing, and in the last five months, more than 532 people have been arrested for a variety of alleged offenses.

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16 comments for "L.A. County employee charged in Capitol breach"

  1. Working in a Social Services office anywhere in LA County will turn you into a Trump Supporter, if you weren’t already one!

    When I started working in Social services, I was the biggest bleeding heart Democrat you’d have ever met.

    20 years later, after seeing the constant abuse of programs, taxpayer money wasted, fraud and scams committed by people too lazy to work — yet — always up for a hustle, I got hardened.

    I wouldn’t say I’m a Trump supporter. I voted for Biden in 2020 because I wanted someone who could speak/act normally as POTUS without careless twitter screeds. Yet, I’m no longer that bleeding hearted, sympathetic person I once was. Once you’ve seen the things I have, it’s hard not to be jaded to some degree.

  2. “White supremacy” is an oxymoron.

    Those white fools took selfies and passed them around making it easy to catch them later.

    Did they really think they were going to get away with their plan to overthrow the election?

    The FBI should observe Trump rallies in case they try another botched insurrection.

  3. That they’ve already released bona fide video showing capitol police ushering Lois Lynn McNicoll, along with everyone else, into the capitol building, federal prosecutors can’t even make a breaking ‘n entering charge stick –

  4. Let them all pay the consequences for participating in this House invasion and trying to stop a constitutional process.

  5. … different laws for different people. Lois gets a life sentence. But, illegal immigrants and ANTIFA looters get a free ride –

    • Just plain ignorance and hypocrisy!
      If that was a black or brown crowd storming into the capitol they would of been shot at the spot!! This is White privileged supremacy

  6. When was it a ”crime” to go to a rally, no matter how old you are? NEVER!! We all saw the Capitol Police allowing people to enter the Capitol, perhaps this woman just followed the other participants into the building, Wait for the FACTS before you decide if she’s guilty of anything other than being a ”Trump Supporter” & carrying a FLAG..

    • Hahaha stay mad and keep seething to blatantly false information. She did the crime, why are you defending someone like this? She is guilty. They were brainwashed into thinking a shaving the firm ideology of assassinating people of congress for the sake of Trump. Did you even read the report you donkey, she entered restrictive property, they all did. These people were Insurgents, not Patriots you price of bacon.

    • Political payback, petty democrats punishing Trump voters, lashing out with record illegal immigration, record high inflation, highest gas price since Barack Obama, and yet another democrat sponsored witch hunt. The democrats, they like hurting you.

      • Etched deeply into the psyche of Pelosi’s National Socialist Democrat movement, America must be punished. And, shamed.

        • To all the screen names that speak the same words: Trump supporters trying to stop the Constitutional process that we hold very dear, will suffer the consequences. How un-American of you. Also, I would be ashamed of using the same screen name too, LOL.

  8. “McNicoll is charged in federal court in the District of Columbia with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds“

    Absolute monster….
    Lol

    • Not a monster, just a treasonous insurgent intent on disrupting the normal functions of government. In short, a violent anarchist that those who rely on the benefits of modern society should perhaps terminate in self defense.

      How about it Beecee…how long do you figure you survive if the norms of modern civilization fail? Four days? Five?