SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Tommy Frederick Allan climbed up a rope hanging from the side of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, then went through a fire door that had been broken open by rioters and made his way inside the building.
Once inside, he walked the hallways, stole an American flag, then climbed some stairs that led him to the Senate chambers, where he stood on the dais waving the stolen flag alongside Jacob Chansley, the so-called QAnon Shaman who was using a bullhorn to accuse members of Congress of being “traitors.”
Then, the 54-year-old Rocklin resident moved to a desk at the front of the Senate, where he snatched some paperwork left behind by Senate staffers who had fled the rioters, stuffed the documents into his pocket and took a cigar he found on a desk because, he explained later, he “figured I paid for” it.
