Three and a half years after a mob of Donald Trump supporters rioted at the nation’s Capitol, the FBI has arrested a Tontitown man accused of assaulting an officer and other offenses that day.
The FBI arrested David Michael Camden, 45, in Fayetteville on Monday and released him on an unsecured $5,000 bond. According to a complaint written by an FBI agent and filed in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., Camden reportedly moved from Washington state to Arkansas after the coronavirus pandemic.
Camden is charged with felony offenses of assaulting, resisting or impeding certain officers and civil disorder. He’s also being charged with several misdemeanors, including engaging in physical violence in an unrestricted building or grounds; entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly and disruptive content in a restricted building or grounds; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and, act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or buildings.
A court document alleges that Camden shouted at police officers outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and pushed a bicycle rack barricade into a line of officers. “In response, officers successfully repelled Camden’s advance and deployed a chemical irritant in his direction to preempt further aggression,” the U.S. Justice Department said in a news release announcing Camden’s arrest.
At about 2:11 p.m. that day, Camden allegedly deployed a fire extinguisher toward a police line. “Camden later moved to a media tower assembled for the upcoming inauguration, and once he arrived at the media tower, Camden climbed the tower and waved a ‘Three Percenters’ flag above the mob of rioters,” according to the news release. “Court documents say that “‘Three Percenters’ are an American far-right, anti-government militia.”
Rioters were protesting certification of President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory over Donald Trump.