A Missouri man has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol breach, after pleading guilty to charges including assaulting law enforcement. Kyler Joseph Bard, 27, from Seneca, was also sentenced to 24 months of supervised release and ordered to pay $2,000 in restitution, theU.S. Attorney s Office for the District of Columbiareported.
Bard admitted to two felonies, one being assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers, and civil disorder, along with four misdemeanors connected to his actions during the disruption of the congressional session that was in progress to certify the 2020 presidential election results; the judge overseeing the case, U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta, handed down the sentence on Friday which comes amidst a larger investigation that has seen over 1,561 individuals charged with related offenses across nearly all 50 states.
According to court documents obtained by theDepartment of Justice, Bard had attended the “Stop the Steal” rally before heading to the Capitol, where he was photographed with a sign declaring police closure of the area and was later seen encouraging others to push against law enforcement. Bard fell while confronting an officer after exclaiming, “You’re all a bunch of pieces of s ,” and he was later arrested by the FBI in Missouri on January 17, 2023.
The FBI’s Kansas City and Washington Field Offices led the investigation that resulted in Bard’s identification as BOLO AFO (Be on the Lookout Assault on Federal Officer) #447, with the aid of U.S. Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department, these continuing investigations have led to more than 590 individuals being charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement alone, highlighting the breadth of aggressive actions taken during the event. With the case prosecuted by both the DOJ s National Security Division s Counterterrorism Section and the U.S. Attorney s Office for the District of Columbia, with additional help from the Western District of Missouri, the repercussions from the Jan. 6 Capitol breach continue to unfold as the quest for accountability persists.
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