Delaware man sentenced for storming Capitol with Confederate flag-toting dad

A southern Delaware man who cleared shattered glass from a window on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, earlier than he and his Accomplice flag-toting father stormed and paraded by the constructing has been sentenced to 2 years in federal jail.

Hunter Seefried, 24, provided an emotional apology Monday at his sentencing in U.S. District Courtroom in Washington, D.C., saying he was deeply sorry for his actions on “a day that can without end symbolize a stain on the character of our nation,” based on The Washington Submit.

His remarks led federal decide Trevor N. McFadden to say Seefried’s phrases had been “most likely essentially the most honest and only” assertion of apology by anybody he has sentenced for his or her crimes through the riot. The lethal riot occurred after outgoing President Trump’s “Cease the Steal” rally on the Ellipse throughout the road from the White Home.

McFadden had convicted Hunter and Kevin Seefried, 53, after a June bench trial of felony obstruction of an official continuing – the certification of fellow Delawarean Joe Biden’s victory over Trump. The decide additionally convicted them of 4 misdemeanor offenses, together with coming into and remaining in a restricted constructing or grounds and disorderly and disruptive conduct in a Capitol Constructing. Kevin Seefried shall be sentenced in January.

Federal prosecutors had sought a 64-month jail time period for the youthful Seefried, arguing that he and his father had been among the many first rioters to breach the Capitol that fateful day. Protection legal professional Edson Bostic had urged probation for his shopper.

After the decision, the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace stated in a press release that the Seefrieds marched practically a mile after the rally to what President Biden has referred to as “the cradle of liberty.” Then the father-son duo “illegally entered the Capitol grounds and joined a crowd of rioters heading up the steps of the constructing,’’ prosecutors stated.

“Individuals close to Hunter and Kevin Seefried broke home windows with a police defend and a wood two-by-four, and Hunter Seefried cleared a big piece of glass from a type of home windows to clear the best way,’’ prosecutors stated.

The Seefrieds entered the constructing about 2:13 p.m., and stayed about quarter-hour, prosecutors have stated. Pictures of Kevin Seefried waving the flag have turn into a number of the most iconic images of the riot.

The Seefrieds had been additionally half of a bigger group of rioters “who verbally confronted a number of U.S. Capitol Cops close to the doorway to the Senate chambers,” the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace stated.