Steven Cappuccio

Slowly recovering, he made it back to Texas, found solid work and was able to buy a home in Universal City, a suburb of San Antonio.  Life was good until the news of the 2020 election hit the airwaves.  Something was wrong.  Trump had a solid lead going into the midnight hours then all of a sudden, he wasn’t. So many voting irregularities were being reported that Steven felt it his duty to ask for an investigation.  When nothing happened, he and his fellow patriots took it upon themselves to “patriotically and peacefully protest” to make their voices heard, as was done in 1876 when congress paused the electoral count because no clear winner had emerged.

Steven drove to D.C. not knowing what to expect.  He thought the crowds would be sparse.  He was surprised.  Instead, the crowds were larger than he imagined. Everything was peaceful but there were some agitators among them. He wasn’t sureif they were really there to protest or paid rabble-rousers from the ranks of Antifa.  Eye witnesses now say it was probably the later.  After Trump’s speech, Steven walked with hundreds of thousandstowards the Capitol.From both user videos as well as police body cam videos, it’s clear that the D.C. Metro Police began the fray byusing tear gas and pepper spray on the crowd.  Many protesters fell and there was a struggle to help them off the ground, people were coughing, vomiting and disoriented.  The situation got chaotic quickly and then… violent.

As Steve approached the entrance to the Lower West Terrace Tunnel, police body camera video showed him entering the tunnel and joining the crowds with a strong “heave-ho” push against the police line. They wanted inside and of course, the police where there to deny them entry.  Videos of Capitol Police show them escalating the fight by pelleting protestors with rubber bullets.   Steven harkened back to his days in Iraq and could not believe this was his countrymen he was fighting against! It was his capital as much as anyone’s and in the heat of the moment, pinnedD.C. policeman Daniel Hodges between the metal doors in the tunnel leading to the capital.He yanked the gas mask from Hodges’s facethen grabbed his baton and hit Hodges in the face. Hesought medical treatment but was not admitted to the hospitalor sustain any permanent injuries.

Steven went back to Texas.  Months later, as the memory of the struggle was starting to fade, on August 10^th, FBI swat teams surroundedhis home and arrested him with lethal force.  Steven was then cast into the DC Gulag where he was subjected to solitary confinement, poor living conditions and scant food.Federal prosecutors sought a sentence of 10 years and one month.  Due to the Patriot Act, they had Steven labeled a “domestic terrorist” That meant he would not be given an attorney, read his rights, nor offered a speedy trial. 

Then the DOJ attorneys weighed in by using a method called, “stacking” of charges together that lets them use an unrelated felony charge from a financial crime bill upgrade some if not all of the misdemeanors into felonies. This way the DOJ can maximize the sentences of their political enemies.  In this case, they charged Steven with nine counts: assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers; assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers using a dangerous weapon; robbery and aiding and abetting; civil disorder; disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; engaging in physical violence in a restricted building or grounds with a deadly or dangerous weapon; and act of physical violence in the Capitol grounds or building, a total of seven felonies.Steven was held, without bail, which is in violation of every American’s rightsunless the alleged criminal is a severe flight risk or a threat to the safety of his or her community.

Two years later, Steven finally got his trialin the form of a bench trial before U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, on July 13^th.  He pleaded Not Guilty to all nine counts. But he never stood a real chance to beat the charges. It’s a well-known fact that juries in Washington, D.C. are virtually rotated from one trial to the next. Federal government employees are paid for jury duty.  Most private companies however, do not pay so the jury pool is very left leaning.  With 98% of D.C. residents voting Democrat, they have a vested interest in making sure no one disturbs their comfortable gigs.

Stevenwas found guilty on seven counts and not guilty on two. On November 3^rd of 2023, the Judge sentencedSteven to 7 years and 1 month in prison and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution. After he gets out, he will then have 24 months of supervised release.  

If you would like to write to Steven, his mailing address is below.

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