Ex-FBI agent, Jared L. Wise, pardoned for using excessive force on Jan. 6 is now a DOJ employee

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Washington, DC - Arrested and eventually pardoned for taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol, a man from Oregon who can be seen in Metropolitan Police Department body camera footage calling law enforcement "Nazis" works as an advisor at the U.S. Department of Justice, according to CBS News.

Jared Wise had been indicted for felony civil disorder and assault charges in connection with the Capitol riots. He pleaded not guilty to those charges and was eventually pardoned by President Donald Trump.

In federal court in January, Wise defended footage where he could be heard referring to law enforcement on Capitol Hill as "Nazis" and as the "Gestapo."

"I was upset at the police brutality I had seen and heard about throughout the day," Wise said in court in January. "I despise police brutality."

Also accused of yelling, "Kill them! Kill them! Kill them," Wise said in cross-examination in January, that he was angry and upset but didn't actually mean what he said.

"No, I didn't mean it," Wise said. "I don't want people to die."

An ex-FBI agent from Oregon, Wise said that he would have been justified in using force against those officers at the Capitol while denying actually making physical contact with law enforcement that day.

Wise worked for the FBI as a special agent from 2004 until he left the bureau in 2017.

“I’ll be frank with you,” Wise said. “I think I would have been authorized. If I’d been further up near the guys with the batons, I think I would have been justified in stopping them.”

The Nazi secret police force, the Gestapo, was responsible for carrying out deadly and extrajudicial raids of Jewish homes and homes of other minority groups and political opposition. The Gestapo was declared a criminal organization at the Nuremberg trials.

During its investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riots, the DOJ released pictures that they say show Wise entering the U.S. Capitol on that date. Matching CCTV footage with alleged data from Wise's cellphone. That evidence was submitted to a U.S. Magistrate Judge by Wise's future employer on April 12, 2023.

After Trump took office on Jan. 20, he issued pardons, commuted sentences and outright dismissed the cases of more than 1,500 people, including Wise, charged in connection with Jan. 6, referring to those serving jail time as "hostages" with the president even using the term in front of Israelis who had been held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.

About 140 law enforcement officers were injured during the Jan. 6 Capitol siege.