Jan. 6 Protesters Who Were Not Violent Can Be Convicted of Disorderly Conduct: Court

Appeals court ruling comes in case of man who was inside the US Capitol for about 13 minutes.

In an image from body-camera footage, Russell Alford (circled) stands inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021. DOJ via The Epoch Times

People who entered the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, can be convicted of disorderly conduct even if they were “neither violent nor destructive,” a federal appeals court ruled on Friday, Jan. 5.

Russell Alford of Alabama was convicted in 2022 by a jury of four counts, including two of disorderly conduct.