Florida Woman Assaulted U.S. Capitol Sergeant With a Flagpole and Threatened Nancy Pelosi on Jan....

Typically, federal charges against a 52-year-old woman accused of assaulting a police sergeant with a flagpole and threatening the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives would be an extraordinary event.

In the case of Audrey Ann Southard-Rumsey, it’s just another Wednesday on the ever-expanding U.S. Capitol riot docket, where attacks on law enforcement rank in the triple digits and threats against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hit federal court almost as regularly as rain.