to 5 years in prison!


The rioter at the front of a mob that chased US Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman up flights of stairs near the Senate chamber on January 6, 2021, has been sentenced to five years behind bars.

Douglas Jensen, who prosecutors say was one of the first 10 rioters to enter the Capitol during the attack, was convicted by a jury in September of each of the seven charges he faced, including obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting a police officer.

“You, by your own actions, put yourself at the forefront of that mob,” Judge Timothy Kelly said to Jensen before handing down his verdict Friday, which includes 36 months of supervised release after he serves his time and $2,000 in restitution for damage to the Capitol. 

Kelly said that the long history of a peaceful transition of power in the US was “snapped” by Jensen and others. “We can’t get that back, it’s broken.”“We cannot, as a country, have what happened on January 6, 2021, ever happen again,” Kelly added.

Jensen, dressed in a shirt with the logo of QAnon – a baseless conspiracy theory about a deep-state pedophilic cabal that adherents thought former-President Donald Trump would expose – scaled a 20-foot wall on January 6 before breaking into the Capitol and demanding that Capitol Police arrest then-Vice President Mike Pence, prosecutors said.