A Man Carrying A Confederate Flag In The Us Capitol And His Son Were Found Guilty Of Crimes

The two men were found guilty by Judge Trevor McFadden of four counts of misdemeanors, including entering and staying in a restricted building and disorderly conduct in a restricted area. Hunter Seifrid was acquitted of several charges related to a window that prosecutors said helped break it. McFadden found that two other men had broken the window, and Hunter removed only one of the fragments that had fallen before climbing. Kevin Syphrid was part of a mob that confronted U.S. Capitol Officer Eugene Goodman, who pulled the rioters away from the Senate as lawmakers were leaving the area. Goodman, who testified Monday, said Seefried used his flagpole as a weapon, hitting his tip toward Goodman. In an interview with the FBI, Kevin Seefried recalled saying to Goodman, “You can shoot me, man, but we’re coming in.” Both Hunter and Kevin Seifrid, after surrendering, told the FBI they made a mistake entering the building. “There is nothing good about jumping out of a window on the Capitol,” Hunter said, adding that he was anti-American and knew he was wrong “from the bottom of my heart.” At one point inside the Capitol, Kevin says he remembered thinking, “This is wrong. Dude, this is so wrong.” In the final hearing Tuesday, Kevin Seefried’s lawyer, Eugene Ohm, argued that Kevin was unaware that ballots were being validated in Congress that day, so he could not deliberately try to block the process. One could set fire to the “rotunda in the middle”, Om said, but if they did not know and intended to stop the certification, they would not be guilty of deliberately obstructing it. Prosecutor Brittany Reed said, however, that there was plenty of occasional evidence that Kevin and Hunter were both aware that a formal election process was taking place inside the Capitol that day. The two men walked through the building with rioters discussing the vote and trying to locate lawmakers, Reed said, and the two men attended a rally before the uprising, where speakers – including then-President Donald Trump – reported the process going on inside the Capitol.