A U.S. court has sentenced an avowed QAnon supporter to five years in prison for civil disorder, assault and resisting arrest when he led a mob of Donald Trump supporters through the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, making it one of the heftiest sentences yet.
At issue is Doug Jensen, convicted in September on these seven counts. He is one of ten people known to have initially entered the Capitol and facilitated the entry of the remaining seditionists seeking to stop the presidential transfer of power.
«You were not a hero or a patriot,» Judge Timothy Kelly said Friday during a moment of the reading of his sentence, which also includes probation for a period of three years and a fine of $2,000.
Jensen, who is scheduled to file an appeal, has been on remand since last year. She had been released prior to her trial, but was ordered back into jail after violating the conditions of her release when she attended an event spreading conspiracy theories and unsubstantiated allegations of fraud in the 2020 election.
Capitol Police Inspector Tom Loyd told the court in a brief that Jensen led a crowd into the Senate chambers inside the Capitol, while making threats against members of Congress and officers trying to contain the assailants, NBC reports.
It was then that the figure of agent Eugene Goodman emerged, who gained media relevance when he managed to protect the congressmen who remained in hiding by diverting the rioters to the exit.
«If Agent Goodman had not led the defendant and the rest of the mob away from the Senate lobby (…) there would have been tremendous bloodshed,» said Loyd in the letter with which he supported the penalties that the prosecution has requested for Jensen.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
