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Capitol Policeman’s Heroism Saves Legislators from Attack by Mob

Sojourner’s Truth Staff

If a viewer was unaware of exactly where in the Capitol building Officer Eugene Goodman was headed to during the afternoon of January 6 as he was chased up a series of stairs by an unruly mob of rioters seemingly intent on damaging the Capitol and seeking to confront, probably cause harm to, the legislators and their staffs, one might have thought he was simply panicking and running aimlessly through the building.

As it happens, Officer Goodman was clearly not panicked. As one takes a second look and hears from commentators where Goodman was in the chase, it becomes evident that the Black officer, pursued by the White insurgents, knew exactly where he was and what his intent was that day.

Goodman can be seen, on the second landing, glancing to his left and noticing an open hallway to the Senate. He was using only his baton to try to ward off the intruders, but there were too many of them to restrain. When he sees the danger that the senators and their staffs might encounter if his pursuers glanced into the open room, he pushes the leader of the pack to irritate him and keep his attention on the officer. Then Goodman headed in the opposite direction with the leader of the mob, then the mob, in hot pursuit.

Goodman led the mob into a group of police in a back corridor outside the Senate.

That leader, wearing a black QAnon shirt, was Doug Jensen from Des Moines, Iowa, who was later arrested by the FBI on five federal charges and fired by his Des Moines employer, Forrest & Associates Masonry.

QAnon is a conspiracy theory that alleges the existence of a liberal, satanic “deep state” cult that conducts a child sex-trafficking ring.

“As Trump’s fascist mob ransacked the U.S. Capitol, this brace USCP officer kept murderous rioters away from the Senate chamber and saved the lives of those inside. God bless him for his courage,” said Rep. Pascrell, D-N.J.


 

 

   
   


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