A North Texan woman who was arrested for her alleged role in the Capitol riots has said that she deserves a presidential pardon.
"It was a very strange experience to be arrested by the FBI," realtor Jenna Ryan told CBS11 outside her home. "They're very professional and it was a very strange feeling. I have a lot of faith in God and I was just praising him and praying and I was just knowing God would take care of me in this situation."
A search warrant was executed by the FBI at Ryan's home.
Ryan is now facing faces charges of knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
"I just want people to know I’m a normal person. That I listen to my president who told me to go to the Capitol. That I was displaying my patriotism while I was there and I was just protesting and I wasn't trying to do anything violent and I didn't realize there was actually violence," Ryan said.
"I'd just like to apologize for all of the families that are affected by any of the negative environment and I'd just like to say I really love people and I am not a villain that a lot of people would make me out to be, or people think I am, because I was a Trump supporter at the Capitol."
Ryan told the news outlet that she wants President Trump to pardon her before his time in office comes to an end.
"I think we all deserve a pardon. I’m facing a prison sentence. I think I do not deserve that and from what I understand, every person is going to be arrested that was there, so I think everyone deserves a pardon, so I would ask the President of the United States to give me a pardon," Ryan stated.
Ryan posted a picture of herself making a peace sign outside a broken Capitol window that she captioned: "Window at the capital [sic]. And if the news doesn't stop lying about us we're going to come after their studios next."
"I don't feel a sense of shame or guilty from my heart. I feel like I was basically following my president. I was following what we were called to do. He asked us to fly there. He asked us to be there. So I was doing what he asked us to do," Ryan said.
"I do feel a little wronged in this situation because I'm a real estate agent and this has taken my company. This has taken my business. I am being slandered all over the internet, all over the world and all over the news and I'm just like a normal person."
