Joshua Lee Hernandez

Joshua Lee Hernandez, 29, of Houston, Texas, traveled from Memphis, Tennessee to the Capitol grounds, waved a flag and chanted to incite the crowd at the Lower West Terrace, and at 2:13 p.m. entered the Capitol through a window near the Senate Wing Doors during the Jan. 6, 2021 riot, carrying a flagpole; over the next 40 minutes he moved through the Senate Wing, the Crypt, the House Speaker's Conference Room, and the Rotunda, then between 2:35 and 2:40 p.m. joined rioters confronting officers at the East Rotunda interior door, shouting and waving others forward and striking an officer's riot helmet with the flagpole. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 2, 2022 to felony counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers and interfering with officers during a civil disorder. U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper sentenced him to 24 months in prison, 36 months of supervised release, and a $2,000 special assessment.