A New Jersey native was charged this week for his role in the storming at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, including for allegedly assaulting an officer, after three people he reportedly served with in the Army tipped off the FBI that the Pennsville native was pictured inside the government building.
Brian Glenn Bingham was arrested in Alabama earlier this week after federal authorities received the tips of him being inside the U.S. Capitol, as well as reviewed video footage showing the 35-year-old entering the building and later allegedly assaulting an officer who was trying to get Bingham to leave, according to the criminal complaint.
Multiple videos show Bingham shouting at a group of officers inside the Capitol and at one point, “grabbing at and pushing” an officer, according to the complaint. The officer told federal authorities that Bingham scratched his left eye.
Bingham posted online about being inside the Capitol after Jan. 6, authorities said, before deactivating his Facebook account as federal authorities began making arrests in the aftermath of the attack.
In one Facebook message to another user, according to the complaint, Bingham wrote, “I got to manhandl[e] 5 cops and live to tell.”
The person responded: “Lol… All of this does not surprise me! Stay safe. Trump2020,” according to the complaint.
Bingham was charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers or employees of the United States in performance of official duties, obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, disorderly and disruptive conduct on Capitol grounds, violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building.
Authorities said video shows Bingham enter the east front door of the U.S. Capitol shortly before 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 6. On his social media account, Bingham posted photos taken just outside the Speaker’s Lobby, which leads directly to the House chamber, according to the complaint.
The FBI, according to the complaint, obtained video that reportedly shows Bingham “pointing and shouting at the officers guarding the entrance to the Speaker’s Lobby” shortly after police shot and killed a woman near that entrance.
“You won’t hurt ANTIFA, but you’ll murder innocent girls!” Bingham later shouted at officers, according to the complaint.
Officers were eventually able to push Bingham towards the doorway of Capitol, which he then exited, authorities said.
“The door was open and we walked in and didn’t break anything, the girl was killed inside door at right at the end of video You decide?,” Bingham posted on Facebook the following day, according to the complaint. “Telling people to be peaceful as we walked in, hmm.”
After making an initial appearance in federal court in Alabama Wednesday, Bingham was released from custody, according to court documents. It is unclear when he will appear in court in Washington, D.C., where all Capitol attack cases are being prosecuted.
A spokesperson for the Army did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Bingham’s military service. His Linkedin profile indicates he served for more than five years, most recently as an operations non-commissioned officer at Fort Benning in Georgia until 2015.
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