Kentucky man charged with assaulting federal officer at U.S. Capitol riot

A Kentucky man has joined the ranks of those arrested following the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol after he was busted for assaulting a federal officer and other offenses, according to the FBI.

According to WDRB, Chad Barrett Jones, 42, of Coxs Creek, was arrested Saturday in Louisville.

Jones was charged with assaulting a federal officer, civil disorder, obstruction of justice, destruction of property and trespassing.

According to a Justice Department news release, Jones was identified in a video showing an “aggressive crowd trying to breach a barricaded door to the Speaker’s Lobby, a hallway that connects to the House of Representatives chambers” after FBI investigators interviewed a relative and a close friend of Jones.

Jones allegedly “forcefully struck the door’s glass panels at least 10 times with a long, wood flagpole,” the news release says. According to video of the incident, seconds later, Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot.

Chad Barrett Jones, 42, of Coxs Creek, Ky.

The relative allegedly described Jones’ clothes to investigators and said Jones was “using a rolled up Trump flag to attempt to break the glass on an interior door.”

The superintendent of the Capitol said it would likely cost $1,000 to replace the smashed glass panels.

Jones remains in custody and will make a court appearance on Tuesday, Jan. 19, according to the FBI.