Your example is not the first time people have done things, been arrested, tried, convicted, sent to prison at the steps of the Capitol, (which by the way maybe needs a capital )
...and then later get pardoned by the POTUS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Rosenberg
Strange fact is that unarmed woman Ashli Babbitt had a water bottle, not bear spray, nor pipes. What happened to her?
Ironically, Bomber Rosenberg was still at it as a Writer with her pardoned Liberty,
whilst Babbitt served in our Air Force honorably to defend Rosenbergs Clinton-gifted right.