Kevin Seefried, the Laurel drywall hanger who paraded a huge Confederate battle flag through the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection and menaced a Capitol cop with it, was handed a three-year prison sentence yesterday by a Trump-appointed federal judge.
His lawyers had asked for a 12-month sentence, and argued that Seefried, 53, lacked “even average intellectual capacity.” “Mr. Seefried did not appreciate the complex and for many, painful, history behind the Confederate battle flag.
“It was difficult for Mr. Seefried to recognize the extent to which the flag is a controversial symbol,” they wrote, “and while some view the flag as a symbol of southern heritage as he had been taught, opponents see it as a symbol of racism and slavery.”
The thing is, I believe that last part is true — lots of children of Confederacy sympathizers are brought up with these beliefs. Most of them were not in the Capitol on Jan. 6.