Chicagoan Kevin Lyons, released early from prison sentence for Jan. 6 riot, recorded video of himself ransacking Pelosi’s office

CHICAGO (WLS) — Behind-the-scenes video filmed by a Capitol rioter on Chicago’s Northwest Side shows the ransacking of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office on January 6, 2021.

The nearly 10-minute personal video, obtained by the ABC7 I-Team, was filmed by Kevin Lyons, who was sentenced to four years in prison but was released Wednesday after serving just one year.

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Lyons’ video was not played in the case against him because he waived his right to a jury trial. The I-Team obtained the video after it was used in the trial of another rioter.

The footage begins in the halls of Congress and then moves directly into then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s private quarters at the U.S. Capitol. It shows rioters walking past a police officer on Jan. 6, 2021, and entering her office.

Led by a Donald Trump supporter, some people can be seen wearing helmets and bulletproof vests carrying sticks and other improvised weapons.

The crowd is so tightly packed that the hallway seen in the video looks like a bathroom line at an old baseball stadium, but it quickly becomes clear that the crowd is inside a national treasure, passing by historical exhibits. Some insurgents headed toward leaders’ offices.

Five minutes into the video, Lyons follows the intruders up a staircase, near the Rotunda, and into Pelosi’s office as the crowd is heard chanting, “Nancy, Nancy, Nancy…” and once inside, the group ransacked the outer office and her personal work quarters.

A rioter is heard saying, “We’re in Nancy Pelosi’s office!”

Many are seen in the video recording themselves and others.

Lyons’ camera continued to record, even as he was seen reflecting in a gold-framed mirror and then stealing from a worker’s jacket pocket and walking away with a wallet.

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In a selfie photo, which appears in court documents, Lyons is also seen holding a prized possession of Pelosi’s, a photo of her with civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis.

Lyons was eventually arrested, convicted and sentenced to more than four years, but his single felony charge of obstruction will now likely be dismissed due to a recent Supreme Court ruling.

A judge released Lyon from prison, saying one year of a four-year sentence is enough.

Asked if Lyons could have been charged with trespassing, former federal prosecutor and ABC7 chief legal analyst Gil Soffer said, “That’s potentially what he could have been charged with, potentially some more enhanced versions of the other statutes that exist among all of the January 6 defendants, he has the least among the least sympathetic cases, given where he was and what he did.”

Lyons is among several hundred defendants indicted on Jan. 6 who were charged with obstructing the certification of the 2020 election.

The Supreme Court ruled that prosecutors went too far in using obstruction laws in the Jan. 6 cases.