Trump rioter, QAnon supporter Douglas Austin Jensen thought he invaded White House, not Capitol, video shows

Jensen was arrested Jan. 8 and indicted three days later.

He is one of more than 500 people charged in connection with the riot, which left five people dead, including Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and Ashli Babbit, a rioter who was shot by police as she tried to enter, through a broken window, an area near the House chamber.

Jensen told an FBI agent and a Des Moines police detective that he was the person seen leading the mob chasing Goodman in video published by the web site of The Guardian newspaper.

“Jensen specifically admitted chasing the Capitol Police officer up the stairs, and that he refused to obey the officer’s lawful orders,” the FBI agent wrote in a statement of facts filed in court.

“Jensen stated that he intentionally positioned himself to be among the first people inside the United States Capitol because he was wearing his ‘Q’ t-shirt and he wanted to have his t-shirt seen on video so that ‘Q’ could ‘get the credit.'”

He is charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority; disrupting the orderly conduct of government business; violent entry and disorderly conduct in a Capitol building; parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building, and obstructing a law enforcement officer during a civil disorder.

He has pleaded not guilty in the case. A status conference in his case is set for July 27.

A judge, in ordering Jensen detained without bail in January, noted, “Mr. Jensen allegedly travelled halfway across the country from Iowa to the District of Columbia, attended a rally in support of former President Trump, joined rioters by climbing through a broken window to enter the Capitol while armed with a knife, led a mob chasing Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman up a flight of stairs in a menacing fashion, threatened to take the officer’s baton, and refused to obey the officer’s lawful orders to stop and leave.” 

Jensen was fired by his employer, Forrest and Associate Masonry, shortly after his arrest. The company disavowed his conduct.

The Des Moines Register has previously reported that Jensen pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal trespassing after being charged with fifth-degree theft in December 2006, and that he was sentenced to three days in jail after pleading guilty to domestic violence and disorderly conduct in Minnesota.

Article source: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/13/trump-rioter-douglas-austin-jensen-thought-he-invaded-white-house-not-capitol.html