The Jan. 6 rioter who led a mob that chased a Capitol police officer said he wants to go back to being a 'family man'

Rebecca Cohen
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  • A Jan. 6 rioter who led a mob after a Capitol police officer got five years in prison.

  • Doug Jensen was sentenced on Friday for his involvement in the Capitol riot.

  • He led a pack of insurrectionists who chased a Capitol Police officer as senators huddled nearby.

The January 6 rioter who chased a Capitol police officer up a staircase as senators huddled in a nearby room was sentenced to five years in prison.

At his sentencing hearing on Friday, Doug Jensen spoke briefly in his defense, stating that "I can't change my past. I can only look to the future," according to CBS News Congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane.

He added that he wanted to go back to being a "family man."

Jensen's lawyer blamed the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory in part for the rioters' actions after he got into the Capitol building and shouted for then-Vice President Mike Pence to be arrested.

On Friday, a federal judge sentenced Jensen to five years in prison. The sentencing range for the case was 57 to 71 months, according to MacFarlane, with prosecutors requesting a 64-month sentence — which would have been just over 5 years.

Jensen was previously convicted on all counts against him, including assaulting, resisting, or impeding a law enforcement officer, and obstruction of an official proceeding, according to the Department of Justice. He also was found guilty of two misdemeanors.

According to federal agents, Jensen illegally entered the US Capitol on January 6.

Once inside, Jensen "faced off" with Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman and then led the pack that chased Goodman throughout the Capitol, according to the DOJ.

Goodman was later praised for luring the mob away from the room where senators were gathered.

Prosecutors in court Friday accused Jensen of wanting to be "the poster boy of the Insurrection," MacFarlane tweeted, adding that prosecutors said Jensen was "trying to fire up a revolution."

"We can't be a society without basic rules," prosecutors said in court Friday, according to MacFarlane.

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