ATLANTA — When Georgia residents Savannah Danielle McDonald and Nolan Harold Kidd emerged from the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and began giving interviews to journalists and posting on social media, there was little evidence they believed they had done anything wrong.
"We were definitely within the first 100 to 150 people in that building," McDaniel told a freelance journalist in a video posted to YouTube.
"I did get a souvenir," Kidd said, whipping off his red "Make America Great Again" hat to reveal a cap belonging to the Capitol Police. Kidd even provided the journalists with cell phone video he took from inside the Capitol showing rioters shouting threats through a haze of tear gas.