Confederate flag-toting man, son convicted in Capitol riot

AP ^ | 06 16022 | Staff

[yesthatjallen]

A federal judge on Wednesday convicted a Confederate flag-toting man and his son of charges that they stormed the U.S. Capitol together during the riot on Jan. 6, 2021, to obstruct Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s presidential victory.

U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden delivered the verdict from the bench after hearing two days of testimony without a jury for the trial of Kevin Seefried and his adult son, Hunter.

McFadden convicted both Delaware men of a felony count: obstruction of an official proceeding, the joint session of Congress for certifying the Electoral College that day.

The judge also convicted the Seefrieds of misdemeanor charges that they engaged in disorderly conduct and illegally demonstrated inside the building. But he acquitted Hunter Seefried of other misdemeanor charges for clearing a shard of glass from a broken window at the Capitol.

They will remain free pending separate sentencing hearings in September.

McFadden, whom President Donald Trump nominated for the court in 2017, presided over two previous bench trials for Capitol riot defendants. He acquitted one of all charges and partially acquitted another.

Widely published photographs showed Kevin Seefried carrying a Confederate battle flag inside the Capitol after he and Hunter Seefried, then 22, entered the building through a broken window.

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[yesthatjallen]

Go to the link and look at the two officers standing in the background.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Who ever thought you could be sent to prison for waving the American rebel flag? What a joke. I guess the rebel flag “stigmatized” the Obamas.

[Catholic and Conservative]

“Storming” looks a lot like strolling. The two police in the picture do not appear to be overly concerned.

[Fuzz]

The flag of a defeated enemy of the United States paraded through the Capital isn’t anything to be proud of.

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[TexasFreeper2009]

rather see that than a rainbow one, or BLM honestly.

[Wilhelm Tell]

From the article:
“More than 800 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Jan. 6 attack.”

So, out of the hundreds of riots in the summer of 2020, how many people have been charged with anything? My guess is, almost none.

[Fuzz]

“So, out of the hundreds of riots in the summer of 2020, how many people have been charged with anything? My guess is, almost none.”

bzzz, over 10,000.

[The Iceman Cometh]

The flag of a defeated enemy of the United States

The true enemy was the North.

[Bob434]

how many have done over a year in prison for misdemeanors, in solitary?

[Round Earther]

The Judiciary is out of control and these judges are not only legislating but committing political retributions against conservatives.

[Fuzz]

“The true enemy was the North.”

lol

[TianaHighrider]

I believe the no-lynching law they passed was hoping to deter us from lynching all of them.

[Dr. Franklin]

In today’s America, anyone can be criminally charged for anything. It could be you next.

[kvanbrunt2]

The Judiciary is out of control and these judges are not only legislating but committing political retributions against conservatives.>>> Trevor isn’t. He let one other go free and reduced the charges on the others.

[TianaHighrider]

I believe the no-lynching law they passed was hoping to deter us from lynching all of the politicians and political judges. And the media.and the “woke” school pervs, etc.

[cowboyusa]

Then your enemy is Reagan and Trup, who love Lincoln and would have stood with the Union. Woodrow Wilson, on the other hand was a neo-confederate.

[SmokingJoe]

When did it become a crime to “tote a Confederate flag”?
And these clowns call Putin a dictator?

[SmokingJoe]

The flag of a defeated enemy of the United States paraded through the Capital isn't anything to be proud of.

So you'd throw people in jail for displaying the British flag at the capitol?

[Fuzz]

“So you’d throw people in jail for displaying the British flag at the capitol?”

Under similar circumstances, yes.