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Jury orders J6 participant who assaulted officer who later committed suicide to pay $500M in damagesA federal jury has ordered a participant in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot to pay $500,000 to the family and estate of a police officer whom he assaulted and who then committed suicide days later. David Walls-Kaufman, a 69-year-old chiropractor, was ordered by an eight-member jury Monday to pay $380,000 in punitive damages and $60,000 in compensatory damages to Erin Smith for assaulting her husband, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith, inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Walls-Kaufman was also ordered to pay $60,000 to compensate Jeffrey Smith's estate for his pain and suffering, according to the Associated Press. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, who oversaw the trial, dismissed Erin Smith’s wrongful-death claim against Walls-Kaufman, a District of Columbia resident, before jury deliberations began because she said no reasonable juror could conclude that his actions were capable of causing a traumatic brain injury leading to Smith’s death. Walls-Kaufman, who lives near the Capitol, denied assaulting Smith, and said that any injuries he suffered on Jan. 6 occurred later that day, when another rioter threw a pole that struck Smith around his head. “Erin is grateful to receive some measure of justice,” said one of her lawyers, David P. Weber. Walls-Kaufman called the outcome of the trial “absolutely ridiculous.” “No crime happened. I never struck
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