Jake Angeli, QAnon shaman from Arizona, among crowd near Pence's Jan. 6 evacuation route

Among the protesters who gathered feet away from Vice President Mike Pence's evacuation route at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, causing Secret Service agents to make farewell calls to their family, was Jake Angeli, the horn-hatted and bare-chested Phoenix man who became the face of the insurrection.

Video shown during Thursday’s hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the incursion of the U.S. Capitol gave more context to widely distributed photos of Angeli squaring off with officers during the assault on the Capitol.

While Angeli and others calmly made their way up to the second floor of the U.S. Capitol, their presence caused panic among Secret Service agents assigned to Pence.

“They’ve gained access to the second floor, and I’ve got public about five feet from me,” said one Secret Service agent over radio traffic played during Thursday’s prime-time hearing. The agent said there were six officers between her and the rioters.

Another agent said that a decision to move Pence needed to be made quickly. “We have a clear shot if we move quickly,” the agent said over the radio.

One person monitoring the conversations between the Secret Service agents said in a chat among national security agents that it "does not sound very good right now."

An anonymous White House security professional, whose voice was disguised as their testimony was played during the prime-time committee hearing, said there was a lot of yelling and personal calls over the radio.

“There were calls to say goodbyes to family members,” the professional said, an indication that Pence’s detail “thought this was about to get very ugly.”

In the video shown during Thursday's hearing, as Angeli is face to face with an officer, a cloud of smoke comes out of a canister that seems to be set off by one of the rioters.

Angeli, in the video, looks around, confused. The video then cuts to an agent climbing the stairs to Pence's location. When the video returns to the crowd near the officers, in an area now partly filled with smoke, Angeli cannot be seen.

Angeli would later make his way into the U.S. Senate chamber and leave a note on the dais where Pence had been presiding minutes before. His note read: "It's only a matter of time. Justice is coming."

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Angeli, who was arrested and charged under his given name, Jacob Chansley, showed up to protest in Washington, D.C., in the same attire, or lack thereof, that he had worn since at least 2019 in Phoenix.

He wore pants that appeared like a potato sack, a bare chest showing off elaborate tattoos, and a face painted red, white and blue. Atop his head was a fur hat with tails that draped his face and was topped with horns.

Angeli carried a cardboard sign, intentionally weathered, that read: "Q Sent Me." He said his get-up was intended to attract attention so he could tell people about Q, who he and untold others believed was a high-level government agent disclosing secrets on obscure online bulletin boards.

The cryptic posts morphed into what became known as the QAnon conspiracy. The theory coalesced around this narrative: Q was alerting citizens of a global cabal of political leaders and celebrities who participated in trafficking children for reasons both of perversion and nutrition. Angeli, in interviews with The Arizona Republic, said he believed powerful people would drink sacrificed children's blood.

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After he became the face of the Jan. 6 riot, Angeli became known as the QAnon Shaman, a nickname that married his beliefs with his elaborate body tattoos.

Several photos of Angeli were taken as he squared off with officers in the second floor hall, where walls are lined with gold-framed portraits.

At times, he seemed to get into the face of an officer. At other times, he threw his head back and chanted. Although he carried a megaphone, Angeli’s voice was strong enough to carry a long distance without amplification.

Angeli was arrested upon his return to Phoenix in the days after the riot.

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His was among the first photos the FBI had put out, seeking the public’s help in identifying him.

Angeli called the FBI the next day, making arrangements to visit the Phoenix office after his drive back from Arizona.

Angeli was sentenced in November to 41 months in federal prison.

He filed an appeal to his sentence, citing improper counsel, but later dropped the matter.

Thursday’s hearing, the final in the first set of public hearings by the House Select Committee, was focused on Trump’s decision not to make a statement of any kind asking rioters to leave the U.S. Capitol.

Every adviser in the White House, according to testimony, pressed Trump to call off the mob, saying he was the only one who had the power to do so.

Trump taped a video message about three hours after the riot began.

Video shown during the hearing showed that rioters at the U.S. Capitol saw the message on their mobile phones and started to leave.

Among those spreading the word through his megaphone was Angeli.

“I’m here to deliver the president’s message,” Angeli was shown in video saying to the crowd. “Donald Trump has asked everybody to go home.”

He then was heard in the video telling someone, in an unamplified voice: “That’s our order.”

This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Jake Angeli of Arizona in crowd near Pence's Jan. 6 evacuation route