Brooklynite cuffed for Capitol riot
Feds say 19-year-old wanted to ‘be where the action was,’ streamed participation
BY AIDAN GRAHAM
Federal authorities have
charged another Brooklynite
in connection with the Jan. 6
riot at the United States Capitol
Building, according to
prosecutors.
The suspect, 19-year-old
Dovid Schwartzberg, confessed
to breaking into the historic
building while Congress was
affi rming the results of the 2021
presidential election — along
with a violent mob of supporters
of President Donald Trump,
who was later impeached for
inciting the incident.
Schwartzberg told police
that he had wanted to “be
where the action was,” and
entered the Capitol through a
broken window after attending
Trump’s rally outside the
facility, before recording several
videos, which he posted
to the social media platform
TikTok under his handle @
dovidsberg26.
A subsequent investigation
uncovered that the suspect
had posted the caption “It
was intense inside congress
today” along with his videos,
prosecutors said.
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An anonymous tipster
reached out to federal offi cials
and alerted them to the Brooklynite’s
identity, and a warrant
was issued for his arrest.
He turned himself into the FBI
in New York April 20.
Schwartzberg was one of
over 200 people arrested for the
incident, which sought to force
congress to reject some state’s
electoral college results, ostensibly
to allow Trump to remain
in offi ce. Several Republican
politicians — including Bay
Ridge representative Nicole
Malliotakis — objected to certifi
cation of the results in states
like Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania,
Georgia, Nevada,
and Wisconsin, but ultimately,
majorities of both the House of
Representatives and the Senate
voted to uphold all 50 state’s results,
and President Joe Biden
was sworn in on Jan. 20.
Five people, including a
Capital Hill police offi cer, died
in the riot.
Schwartzberg now joins
a handful of Brooklynites
cuffed for their participation,
including the son of a Brooklyn
Supreme Court Justice
and a sanitation worker from
Sheepshead Bay.
The defendant was charged
federally U.S.C. § 1752(a)
(1) which makes it a crime
“knowingly enter or remain
in any restricted building or
grounds without lawful authority
to do” or “knowingly,
and with intent to impede or
disrupt the orderly conduct of
Government business or offi -
cial functions, engage in disorderly
or disruptive conduct
in, or within such proximity
to, any restricted building or
grounds when, or so that, such
conduct, in fact, impedes or
disrupts the orderly conduct
of Government business or offi
cial functions; or attempts or
conspires to do so.”
Prosecutors did not seek to
keep the defendant detained
while he awaits trial, and he
was released on bail.
The suspect, Dovid Schwarizberg, inside the Capitol building on Jan. 6. EDNY
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