Georgian lawyer said he knocked on Pelosi’s door, it could have been ‘torn to small pieces’

A Georgian lawyer boasted that he and other rioters “knocked on the door of Nancy Pelosi’s office” and that the Speaker of the House had avoided being “torn into small pieces”, according to a criminal complaint.

William McCall Calhoun Jr., an attorney from Americus, Ga., Has been charged with entering a restricted building, violent or disorderly conduct and obstructing official government procedures, according to an FBI affidavit requesting his arrest.

The FBI’s National Threat Operation Center received advice that Calhoun documented – in words and in video on social media – his role in the deadly Jan.6 riot on the U.S. Capitol, according to the affidavit.

Thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in hopes of preventing Congress from formalizing the victory of President-elect Joe Biden. At least five people have died from the violence.

Calhoun said the “crowd” searched Pelosi’s “inner sanctum”, according to his Facebook post cited in the affidavit.

“And get this – the first of us who went upstairs knocked on Nancy Pelosi’s office door and pushed the hallway towards her inner sanctum, the crowd screaming in rage,” Calhoun wrote, according to the FBI.

“Crazy Nancy would have probably been torn to small pieces but she was nowhere to be found.”

Calhoun’s Facebook and Talking accounts, cited in the affidavit, appear to have been deleted Tuesday afternoon.

The suspected rioter was taken into custody on Friday and will remain in jail until his bail hearing on Thursday, according to a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Georgia’s Central District.

A lawyer for Calhoun did not immediately return the messages seeking comment.

Calhoun, who practices criminal and insurance law, was in good standing and was not subject to any discipline, according to Georgia Bar records.

A spokesperson for the association declined to discuss Calhoun on Tuesday afternoon but said in a statement: “The bar has jurisdiction only over lawyers in their professional lives, so the rules do not cover personal conduct unless a member is convicted of a crime “.

He has been licensed to practice law in Georgia since 1990.