Leo Christopher Kelly Wiki – Leo Christopher Kelly Biography
Leo Christopher Kelly is charged in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violent entry with intent to disrupt the orderly conduct of official business and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
He is on the right-hand side of the frame, joining others as a protester at the Senate president’s desk calls on those around him to “say a prayer in this sacred place.” Kelly can be seen taking a knee as the prayer leader gives “thanks to our heavenly father for this opportunity to stand up for our God-given unalienable rights.”
That prayer leader, who shouted the words over a bullhorn, also has been charged in the melee. Jacob Anthony Chansley, also known as the QAnon conspiracy “shaman” adorned with horns and a bearskin hat, faces similar charges of knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
The complaint notes that Kelly, also during the video interview, said he felt “conflicted about what happened that day at the Capitol because ‘you violate someone else’s space … Force your way into a building … In some ways that really feels wrong, but that really does belong to us.’”
He also acknowledged it should be an “absolute last resort,” according to the affidavit. “Maybe we shouldn’t have done that … It’s just, you come to the end of your rope and you get swept up in a movement.”
Leo Christopher Kelly Age
Leo Christopher Kelly is 35 years old.
Charge – Arrested
He was identified by investigators as being part of the pandemonium through video coverage by a news reporter and by two interviews he did with The Gazette and with the LifeSiteNews website, according to an affidavit filed with the complaint Friday.
In this video interview with LifeSiteNews, which describes itself as opposed to abortion rights, Kelly said he was “one of the first men to breach the Capitol building and go inside with dozens of others.”
The affidavit states Kelly, in that interview, also said he stayed inside the Capitol between 30 minutes and an hour. He asserted the invaders didn’t encounter law enforcement officials and said he and others were “mostly respectful as you can be when you’re kind of really pushing in on somebody’s space like that,” the affidavit states.
He admitted that he got all the way to the Senate floor and said a prayer with others, according to the affidavit.
His interview concluded with video Kelly likely shot with his cellphone from the Senate floor “during the insurrection,” the affidavit states.
Kelly, in the LifeSiteNews interview, told an interviewer he shot some video and it shows desks that were opened and in disarray and other people involved in the invasion that day, according to the affidavit.
A video shot by Luke Mogelson of the New Yorker Magazine also showed the scene unfolding on the Senate floor at the time of the incursion.
In the New Yorker video, Kelly can be seen inside the chamber beginning at about the 7:55 mark on the recording.