The man who was spotted carrying Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s lectern during Wednesday’s riots at the US Capitol was released on $25,000 bail.
The man, later identified as 38-year-old Adam Johnson was seen smiling and waving while making his way through the Capitol rotunda carrying the lectern with the seal of the Speaker of the House clearly visible.
He has been charged with stealing government property, violent entry and entering a government building without permission.
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Johnson was released on bail with the conditions that he surrender his passport and wear an electronic monitoring device.
Attorneys for Johnson seemingly confirmed that he was the individual in the photo carrying the stolen lectern.
“You have a photograph of our client in a building, unauthorized to be there. “I’m not a magician. … So, yeah, we’ve got a photograph of our client, what appears to be inside a federal building … with U.S. property,” Dan Eckhart said.
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The lectern was later recovered undamaged in a hallway on the Senate side of the Capitol, according to the FBI.
