A jury found a man guilty of all charges against him for chasing down a police officer.
Doug Jensen, an Iowa man who was one of the first 10 rioters to enter the Capitol during the insurrection, went on trial this week and was found guilty on seven counts.
December 16 is when the sentencing will take place. April was crying as the verdicts were read.
Jensen has been in jail. After violating the conditions of his release by live-streaming an event hosted by the CEO of MyPillow, a judge ordered him to be held again.
Jensen made videos from the base of the Capitol building, where he claimed he was at the White House. It's time to storm the White House. In one video, he said that they do that.
The jury began deliberations in the afternoon after the government and Jensen's defense team made their closing arguments.
Jensen was accused of being the rioter who would not back down in order to prevent the peaceful transfer of power.
He was prepared to topple every barrier he encountered that day. He climbed a 20-foot wall to get to the Capitol and passed through police lines.
The officer who testified at Jensen's trial had no back-up when he faced off with rioters. The mob didn't leave despite being asked to.
Mirell said that it was not a game of following the leader. Jensen was using that mob as a weapon.
Christopher Davis painted his client as a confused man who had fallen for conspiracy theories. He said that Mr. Jensen was one of the people who had strange things happen to them.
It took his client roughly 24 hours to figure out that he was at the Capitol, not the White House, according to his lawyer.
Prosecutors have alleged that Jensen took part in some of the chaotic scenes on scaffolding, but his client did not do that.
In their rebuttal, the government tried to get rid of those defenses. If Jensen was confused, he wouldn't have been able to come so close to Vice President Mike Pence during the riot. Emily Allen said that that doesn't happen by confusion.
After Friday's verdict, Jensen's lawyer spoke to reporters and said that he thought Jensen had a lot of issues. It's just sad.
The client was described as a typical Midwesterner by Davis.
More than 850 people have been arrested for their involvement in the Capitol attack.
Five people associated with the far-right America First movement were arrested by the FBI this week, and a judge sentenced a man who was an army reserve to four years in prison for storming the capitol.
The article was first published on NBC News.
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