‘You’re gonna need a bigger wrecking ball’: School board member among 1st wave of Capitol rioters won’t step down despite jail sentence

Background: Miles Adkins at a school board meeting in Frederick County, Virginia. YouTube screengrab WRC. Inset center: Adkins selfie at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Right: Adkins, circled in yellow, taking the hand of a rioter helping him over a window ledge at the U.S. Capitol. Photos courtesy U.S. Justice Department.

Background left: Miles Adkins at a school board meeting in Frederick County, Virginia (YouTube screengrab/WRC). Inset: Adkins selfie at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 (via DOJ court filing). Background right: Adkins, circled in yellow, taking the hand of a rioter helping him over a window ledge at the U.S. Capitol (via DOJ court filing).

Miles Adkins, 39, a former U.S. Marine and current member of the Frederick County School Board in Virginia who was among the first wave of rioters that breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, will spend 12 days in jail after he was sentenced this week by a federal judge for two misdemeanors including disorderly and disruptive conduct and parading and demonstrating inside of the Capitol.

Despite this sentence and calls for him to step down from the school board, Adkins, a resident of Stephens City, refuses to leave his position and told local outlets like the Winchester Star ahead of his sentencing on Monday that he thinks the Justice Department was applying the “same old double standard” to him and he regretted the violence that unfolded the Capitol but he sees “misinformation” occurring around Jan. 6. He meanwhile told Virginia’s NBC affiliate WRC that he was “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 said Monday before his sentencing by U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee.

To his detractors calling for his resignation from the Frederick County School Board, he said Monday: “You’re gonna need a bigger wrecking ball to get me out of there.”

He was elected to the board in 2021.

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