Federal prosecutors have now charged at least 158 people in the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot and opened investigations into 400+ individuals. 

The charges range from unlawful entry on the Capitol grounds to more serious ones like conspiracy and threatening public officials. 

The nationwide hunt for suspects continues, with the FBI asking the public to help identify participants, given the proliferation of images of the violence on the internet. 

The alleged rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol came from at least 37 states outside of Washington, DC.

Most of the 158 people who have been arrested are from Texas and Florida, with 15 Texans and 12 Floridians charged.

At least 18 alleged rioters are military veterans, firefighters and current or former police, according to The Wall Street Journal.

“These people have training and capabilities that far exceed what any foreign terrorist group can do. Foreign terrorist groups don’t have any members who have badges,” said Michael German, a former FBI agent and fellow with the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, in an interview with the Associated Press.

Meanwhile, authorities have linked at least 19 suspects to extremist groups, including the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys.

The Oath Keepers, described by the FBI as “a large but loosely organized collection of militia who believe that the federal government has been co-opted by a shadowy conspiracy that is trying to strip American citizens of their rights,” first began to garner national attention in 2014.

The acting U.S. Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman on Tuesday apologized to members of Congress for security failures on January 6.

“We also knew that some of these participants were intending to bring firearms and other weapons to the event,” she said. “We knew that there was a strong potential for violence and that Congress was the target. The department prepared in order to meet these challenges, but we did not do enough.”

She also warned lawmakers may need to sacrifice public access to the building in the future to prevent incursions like this.

“In my experience, I do not believe there was any preparations that would have allowed for an open campus in which lawful protesters could exercise their First Amendment right to free speech and at the same time prevented the attack on Capitol grounds that day,” Pittman said in a prepared statement obtained by The Washington Post.

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