WASHINGTON – QA unbeliever who harassed U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman on On January 6, 2021, and apparently believing he was storming the White House, was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison. in prison.
jury found Doug Jensen, of Iowa, to blame on seven counts, including criminal charges of civil disorder and assault, resistance or obstruction of officers, in September. He was one of in first 10 rebels will enter the Capitol during the uprising.
“You weren’t a hero or a patriot” on On January 6, Judge Timothy Kelly told Jensen when he read the verdict. “But you weren’t monster or.”
Jensen will also on probation for three years after release and would have to pay $2,000. in restitution.
In a brief statement in court, Jensen assured Kelly that he would not interfere. in judicial system again and expressed his wish go back to be family person and to his “normal” life before politics.
“I can’t change my past, I can just look at future,” he said.
His lawyer, Christopher Davis, told NBC News after the hearing, “I’m sure Mr. Jensen would have preferred a lighter sentence,” adding that he would appeal. on Friday.
US Capitol Police Inspector Tom Loyd also went to court for how On January 6, they affected him and his officers, declaring a riot.changed my life forever.” He filed a paper in support of Sentencing Jensen.
Last week the federal government asked the court to assign a “medium range sentence of 64 months in prison, three years of supervised release, $2,000 in restitution and total required special grade of $520 for five counts of felonies and two counts of misdemeanors of In a separate document, Jensen’s lawyer requested that his client be sentenced to 27 months, stating that it would be “a sentence sufficient, but no more than necessary.”
jensen was in pre-trial detention last year. he was released in a high-intensity pretrial program but the judge ordered him to be detained again after he broke the terms of his release live event hosted MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who promoted conspiracy theories about the 2020 elections.
On January 6, Jensen recorded a video from the base. of Capitol, where he inaccurately stated that he was in the White House. Storm the White House! That’s what we do!” he said in one video.
In a supplemental document, the US Attorney filed this week in support of Jensen’s verdict, which Loyd wrote about how rebellion changed his life forever. “We did not attack crowd, crowd attacked us,” He wrote.
Loyd wrote that Jensen led the crowd inside the Senate wing. of Capitol up to main entrance to the Senate floor, which he said threatened “the whole United States Senate, the Vice President, and my personnel”That’s where Goodman who credited with member protection of Congress during the attack distracted the rioters.
“Fortunately, the defendant was able walk out of capitol building on January 6,” wrote Loyd. “He can thank Officer Goodman. If Officer Goodman had not brought the defendant and the others of crowd away from the Senate lobby, and an attempt was made made break those doors, it would be terrible bloodshed.”
If not for “fast thinking” of Goodman, the rioters would have been carried away out of in buildinghe continued. “A lot of of my officers are not like that lucky as a defendant. Several of my officers had to be carried out of capitol building on January 6 due to injuries.
Good man, who testified at Jensen’s trial, he “didn’t have a backup” when he faced off with rioters, said Assistant U.S. Attorney Chava Arin Levenson Mirell. And the crowd, “led by the defendant,” did not retreat, despite the requests of the authorities.
“That was not game of follow leader,” Mirell said. – Jensen “armed this gang.”
The House Committee investigating the January 6 riots set free him final a report detailing its exhaustive investigation and results Wednesday.
