<p>The man who kicked his feet up at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s desk during the Capitol riot was &#8220;pushed&#8221; into the building by a wave of protesters, his lawyer says.</p>
<p>Richard Barnett, 61, was arrested two days after photos of him at the January 6 riot circulated on the internet, including one where he had his feet up on Pelosi&#8217;s desk and another where he held an envelope with her signature on it. But Barnett&#8217;s lawyer says his client was swept into the capitol while facing away from the building.</p>
<p>&#8220;He was pushed into the Capitol on the sixth by the crowd,&#8221; Joseph McBride, Barnett&#8217;s attorney, told The Daily Wire. &#8220;Prior to the doors being opened, you had sort of a groundswell tidal wave. People were trying to get in. Other people were nearly swept up in the crowd because there was nowhere to go between them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Video reviewed by The Daily Wire shows someone — who McBride says is Barnett — saying &#8220;they&#8217;re pushing&#8221; and &#8220;we have no choice&#8221; when he entered the building. At 2:50 p.m., around seven minutes after court documents say he entered, Barnett was captured on surveillance video walking into the top Democrat&#8217;s conference room while holding an American flag, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1351656/download">according</a> to the DOJ. He has also said he took an envelope, leaving behind a quarter and a note on her desk calling her a &#8220;b****.&#8221;</p>
<p>He left Pelosi&#8217;s office six minutes after entering, according to the DOJ. His lawyer says law enforcement told him to leave, and that Barnett then went into the Rotunda, where police created a &#8220;holding area&#8221; and did not let people leave.</p>
<p>Barnett has been hit with a litany of charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding, theft of government property, entering and remaining in a restricted building with a deadly or dangerous weapon, and other misdemeanors. The defendant rejected a plea deal Wednesday that would have carried up to 87 months in prison. If convicted of the obstruction felony, he could face 20 years in prison.</p>
<p>The U.S. Attorney&#8217;s office in Washington, D.C., declined a request for comment.</p>
<p>Two days after the riot, law enforcement searched Barnett&#8217;s home and found packaging for a stun-gun hiking stick that he had in his possession on January 6, according to the DOJ. He was charged with a felony carrying a 10-year maximum prison sentence.</p>
<p>McBride believes his client would have been charged with having a dangerous weapon regardless of what he had been carrying that day. He also said the hiking stick&#8217;s stun-gun functionality couldn&#8217;t have worked.</p>
<p>&#8220;It had been disabled the night before,&#8221; said the lawyer. &#8220;He showed up with the stun gun device inoperable.&#8221;</p>
<p>His trial is scheduled for September 6.</p>

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