Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump are protesting at the U.S. Capitol Roundabout on January 6, 2021, in Washington, DC.
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Kevin Seefried, who was photographed carrying a Confederate flag at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 riots in Washington, has been charged by a grand jury with five offenses related to obstruction, entry into restricted properties and disorderly conduct.
Seefried’s son Hunter Seefried was also charged. Young Seefried faces the same five charges as his father, in addition to three charges related to the destruction of government property and violence on Capitol grounds.
The grand jury’s paper was filed Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and made public Thursday. The two men were arrested in January after surrendering to Wilmington, Del. Both men are residents of Delaware.
Kevin and Hunter Seefried are among hundreds of individuals accused of crimes related to the Capitol attack, which was carried out largely by supporters of former President Donald Trump who rejected his electoral defeat against the president Joe Biden.
An affidavit signed by FBI Special Agent Katherine Pattillo, filed in connection with the case in January, said authorities reviewed video footage allegedly showing the Seefried entering the Capitol through a broken window .
The two were identified, according to the affidavit, after a Hunter colleague Seefried told the FBI that Hunter had “presumed to be at the Capitol with his father on January 6, 2021.”
Pattillo also wrote that he reviewed images posted on Twitter that allegedly showed Hunter Seefried “drilling glass in a window of the Capitol complex after people adjacent to him in the crowd broke it with a wooden 2 x 4.”
“Kevin Seefried confirmed to law enforcement that an individual unknown to Seefried asked Hunter Seefried to help clean the window because Hunter Seefried was wearing gloves,” Pattillo wrote.
Kevin Seefried, according to authorities, was photographed inside the United States Capitol with a Confederate flag and his son Hunter Seefried (R) entered a Wilmington office building after his first court appearance in Wilmington, Delaware, January 14, 2021.
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The two men participated in independent and voluntary interviews with researchers, Pattillo wrote. Kevin Seefried said during his interview that he had carried the Confederate flag from his home in Delaware, where he had it displayed outside.
Defendant Kevin Seefried told law enforcement he had traveled with his family from Delaware to the District of Columbia to hear President Trump speak and that he and Hunter Seefried participated in a march from the White House to the Capitol run by an individual with a horned bull, “Pattillo wrote.
The five charges facing the two men are: obstruction of an official procedure, help and incitement; enter and remain in a restricted building or land; disorderly and disturbing conduct in a restricted building or land; disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; and parade, demonstrate, or picket in a Capitol building.
In addition, Hunter Seefried also faces charges of entering and remaining in a building or restricted land with physical violence against property; destruction of government property; and act of physical violence on the grounds or buildings of the Capitol.
A Hunter Seefried attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A lawyer for Kevin Seefried could not be contacted immediately.
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