A former longtime Coronado resident was tentatively sentenced to three months in prison Tuesday for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol rampage, an attack that federal prosecutors called “a criminal offense unparalleled in American history.”
“He is ashamed that he took part in a violent incident that attempted to disrupt the peaceful democratic process which has made him so proud to be an American and led him to serve his country on the field of battle,” Rice wrote. Investigators were able to piece together a detailed picture of parts of Smith’s movements around the building, using camera footage from multiple sources, but other parts remain unaccounted for, according to the prosecution’s sentencing memo.
Smith and another rioter moved the benches, but three officers were able to stop Smith from opening the doors. Before the officers could reposition the benches, a crowd in the Rotunda surged toward the door. Smith joined “to assist a growing mass of rioters in overwhelming the officers by sandwiching them against the doors which caused the doors to open from the inside and triggering the first and only major breach point on the east side of the Capitol,” prosecutors said.
The rioters soon after physically assaulted the officers, but it was unclear from footage of the officers’ body-worn cameras whether Smith participated in the violence, prosecutors said.
Is he really an insurgent if he was only convicted of “parading or demonstrating inside a Capitol building”?
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