A school board member in Virginia has been sentenced to jail for his role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — but has no intention of resigning his office, according to NBC4 Washington.
Frederick County board member Miles Adkins pleaded guilty to a pair of misdemeanors this week and was sentenced to 12 days in prison.
But in a defiant interview, Adkins told reporters, “You're gonna need a bigger wrecking ball to get me out of there.”
He said his sentence, which will only be served on weekends, will not deter him from doing his job: “Well, we’re gonna keep the main thing the main thing. The main thing is, you know, to educate the children and everything. You see our test scores rising.”
Adkins, who has a history of racist social media posts including attacks on former President "Hussein Obama," was arrested back in April, Authorities said that he chugged Coors and Fireball whiskey after intruding into the Capitol building.
His arrest caused a rift in his Shenandoah Valley community, with some residents voicing support for him and others demanding that he stop disgracing the town.
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In Virginia, it is difficult to remove a local official from office involuntarily; residents would have to gather petitions for a judge to open a misconduct investigation.
To date, more than 1,300 people have been arrested for alleged involvement in the January 6 attack, with charges ranging from misdemeanor unlawful picketing to felony assault of police and seditious conspiracy. Many of the low-level offenders took guilty pleas, like Adkins, in return for relatively mild sentences.
A recent Supreme Court decision could potentially reopen a portion of the cases that involve obstruction of Congress charges, as the justices found that rioting at the Capitol did not meet the definition of that offense.
