Record at a Glance
- Category
- Jan 6th
- Age in NPR record
- 52
- Location
- Spring Hill, Florida
- Charges
- Civil Disorder; Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers; Obstruction of an Official Proceeding; Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building or Grounds; Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Act of Physical Violence in the Capitol Grounds or Buildings; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building
- Case status
- Pleaded not guilty; Convicted; Dismissed in part or full; Sentenced
- Presidential action
- Pardon
Case Summary
An FBI affidavit says Audrey Ann Southard-Rumsey drove from Florida to Washington, D.C., with three friends for then-President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 rally. One of them told FBI agents that Southard-Rumsey disappeared for a while but then was finally found crying on the east steps of the U.S. Capitol building, saying she had entered the building, according to the affidavit. A U.S. Capitol Police sergeant identified Southard-Rumsey as one of the main agitators in a group of rioters, according to court documents. Video footage reportedly shows her pushing a flagpole into the officer’s chest and yelling, “Tell Pelosi we are coming for that b**ch,” and, “There’s 100,000 of us, what’s it going to be?” The affidavit alleges the officer “felt like he was being trampled” as Southard-Rumsey pushed him into a set of doors leading to the House floor, causing him to strike his head on the base of a marble statue. An agent in the FBI’s Tampa, Fla., office who has had interactions with Southard-Rumsey through her protest activities in Florida also identified her in video footage. She was arrested June 2, 2021, and released on a $50,000 bond.
Case History
Southard-Rumsey pleaded Not Guilty to all charges. She was found Guilty on seven charges in a stipulated Bench trial on 1/27/2023: Civil Disorder (3 counts); Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers (3 counts); Obstruction of an Official Proceeding. The other charges are dismissed. Sentenced on 7/14/2023 to 72 months incarceration; 36 months supervised release; $700 special assessment. Southard-Rumsey received a full pardon on January 20, 2025
Sources
- Primary Documentation
NPR Jan. 6 Defendant DatabaseNPR - Primary Documentation
Underlying court recordCourt record linked by NPR
Case summary, charges, procedural updates and image are drawn from the NPR Jan. 6 archive snapshot dated 2026-09-25 unless otherwise indicated.