Capitol rioter who wanted to be ‘lone-wolf killer’ charged with violating anti-stalking order

A Silver Spring man who spent four months in prison for his role in the Capitol riot now faces three new criminal counts for allegedly violating an anti-stalking order against a D.C. activist.

Bryan Betancur Battisti, 26, appeared in D.C. Superior Court on Wednesday for arraignment on three counts of contempt of an anti-stalking order. The order bars him from being in public or private spaces near Brianne Chapman, a D.C.-based activist who goes by the moniker “Anarchy Princess” and who frequently counter-protests hearings in cases related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

According to prosecutors from the Office of the Attorney General for D.C. (OAG), Battisti violated the order on three occasions in February when he entered a courtroom at the nearby federal courthouse and failed to leave when he saw Chapman was in the public gallery. A WUSA9 reporter was present on at least one occasion on Feb. 8 when federal officers briefly detained and then escorted Battisti out of the building. He was also barred from U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols’ courtroom for three months for his behavior in court during the hearing for another Jan. 6 defendant, Gina Bisignano, who is awaiting trial.

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