The son of Brent Bozell, a conservative commentator, has been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol after being identified by wearing a sweatshirt from the Christian high school where he once worked as a girls basketball coach, court records show.<\/p>\n
Leo Brent Bozell IV \u2014 whose father\u2019s full name is Leo Brent Bozell III \u2014 is accused of entering a restricted government building, obstructing an official proceeding and disorderly conduct, according to a compliant filed in Federal District Court in Washington on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The court documents include several screenshots of the younger Mr. Bozell at various locations inside the Senate chamber, where he lingered, without a mask, for about ten minutes. He is seen chatting on his phone, and, at one point, appears to be repositioning a C-SPAN camera in the chamber\u2019s upper gallery.<\/p>\n
Mr. Bozell\u2019s father is a high-profile right-wing activist known for infusing his politics with Christian values. He founded the Parents Television Council in 1995 to protect young people from what he saw as the morally degrading effect of popular culture. <\/p>\n
While he has expressed sympathy with the frustrations expressed by former President Donald J. Trump\u2019s supporters, the elder Mr. Bozell has criticized the Capitol attack in unequivocal terms.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne element went forward in lawlessness and it\u2019s done tremendous damage to everyone else,\u201d he told Fox News. \u201cI think it\u2019s absolutely wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Birth records, retrieved through Ancestry.com, show that the younger Mr. Bozell was born in 1979 to Brent Bozell and Norma Petruccione, who has been identified as the elder Mr. Bozell\u2019s wife in news accounts over the years.<\/p>\n
Messages left for the elder Mr. Bozell were not immediately returned. The court documents did not provide information about the younger Mr. Bozell\u2019s legal representation.<\/p>\n
A witness watching video of the riot was able to identify the younger Mr. Bozell, who goes by the nicknames \u201cZeek\u201d or \u201cZeeker,\u201d after noticing that he was wearing a blue sweatshirt emblazoned with \u201cHershey Christian Academy,\u201d a small parochial school located near Harrisburg, Penn., according to the complaint.<\/p>\n
\u201cBozell stopped being the girls\u2019 basketball coach in March 2020, as the team could no longer practice, or play games, due to the Covid-19 pandemic,\u201d the witness told an F.B.I. agent.<\/p>\n