One hit an officer and yelled, “You deserve that, you piece of s—!”
Insurrectionists loyal to President Donald Trump try to break through a police barrier, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington. An Athens man and his cousin from Mississippi were sentenced to federal prison time Monday for their part in the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
According to evidence presented during the trial, Smith traveled from his Mississippi home and picked up Wren. They continued on to Washington, D.C., to attend a rally held by former President Trump on the day electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election were to be certified by Congress. Smith pushed toward the front of a group of rioters and used a flagpole like a spear five times to try to break a window next to the Lower West Terrace doors. He then surged through the doorway, where he and a mass of other rioters pushed into a line of Metropolitan Police Department officers attempting to hold the door shut.
While this occurred, Smith witnessed an object fly past him and hit an officer. Smith yelled at the officer, “You deserve that, you piece of s—!” At 4:35 p.m., Smith kicked an MPD officer in the back—sending the officer to the ground. Smith picked up a metal pole-like object and threw it toward the line of police, striking two MPD officers in the head.
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