Valerie Elaine Ehrke

Valerie Elaine Ehrke, of Arbuckle, California, traveled to Washington on Jan. 5, 2021 for the rally and the next day stepped about 15 feet into the U.S. Capitol for roughly one minute without engaging in violence or property damage, later posting photos to Facebook captioned "We made it inside, right before they shoved us all out." She pleaded guilty on June 30 to parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building; the judge called her role "about as minimal as it gets" and she became the seventh Jan. 6 defendant sentenced. She was sentenced on Sept. 17, 2021 to three years of probation, $500 in restitution, and 120 hours of community service.