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William George Knight

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William George Knight — Rapid City, South Dakota. He was 37. FACT: William Knight was never convicted. His case was charged in May 2024 and was still pending when the January 20, 2025 clemency ended it. No trial, no verdict, no conviction. FACT: A federal judge released him to home detention rather than jail him while the case was pending. That is a judge, with the full FBI affidavit in front of him, deciding this man could go home. FACT: The government alleged he helped use a metal-framed campaign sign against a police line and shoved an officer, and charged him with obstruction of law enforcement during civil disorder, assaulting or impeding officers, and five misdemeanors. Every one of those was an allegation in a charging document. None was ever proven to a jury. Charges are charges. FACT: He was identified in part through the work of online volunteers who compiled images and fed them to the FBI — not through any admission of his own. FACT: On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued clemency covering January 6 defendants. The case ended without a conviction. Three and a half years passed between January 6 and the knock on his door in Rapid City. Three and a half years of a man not knowing if it was coming. Then eight months of federal charges. Then nothing. There is a life in Rapid City behind this name — work, family, people who count on him. None of it made a wire story, because wire stories wanted the tattoos and not the man. THE CASE RECORD Court: U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Arrested by FBI 5/26/24. Charged with two felony counts and five misdemeanor counts. Released to home detention pending trial. Case ended without conviction following the 1/20/25 clemency. Case number: not yet recorded in this archive. NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: service record, occupation, and family details are not yet sourced. We will not invent them. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you — or your family — claiming it is free, forever.