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The lead guitarist and founder of American heavy metal band Iced Earth is among those wanted by police for storming the US Capitol yesterday (January 6).
Hordes of Donald Trump‘s supporters violently took over the Washington D.C. building as Congress were in the process of certifying Joe Biden‘s election victory.
Jon Schaffer was photographed among the rioters who breached security at the Capitol and, in one image captured by AFP’s Roberto Schmidt, appeared to be wildly gesticulating in the middle of the chaotic scenes.
Now, Schaffer has appeared on a PowerPoint presentation from the Metropolitan Police in D.C., which documents people sought after for “unrest-related offences” and the unlawful entry of Capitol grounds.
Schaffer’s involvement in the demonstration comes shortly after he attended a D.C. Trump rally in November to protest against the election results.
“They will go down. They’re messing with the wrong people, believe me,” he told German daily newspaper Die Welt.
Schaffer previously attracted controversy in July when he claimed that Covid-19 is “a psychological warfare campaign on the people more than it is a serious pandemic”.
He told MetalSucks: “I think there’s a lot more going on than meets the eye here — in fact, I know there is. Legitimate doctors and scientists are being censored and banned on YouTube constantly. It’s unbelievable levels of fraud.”
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