Assault on the US Congress: who is Eugene Goodman, the “decoy” agent who saved the senators

An Army veteran who has served at least one shift in Iraq, Goodman has been a Capitol policeman for at least ten years: the video that became popular in the wake of the January 6 assault shows him being chased by the group who refused to obey his orders to stop or come back. The images then show the agent directing the crowd in another direction, while colleagues on the other side of the door desperately try to block it.

“The policeman confronts the first pursuer trying to challenge him, then he is followed in a side corridor”, reported the American media after examining the video. “It was a matter of seconds,” writes the Washington Post. “He certainly saved lives,” wrote Kristin Wilson, the CNN reporter who first identified him by name, on Twitter. Goodman is now seen as a national hero: “He used himself, black man, as bait,” observed Pamela Colloff of ProPublica.

Doug Jensen, 41, of Des Moines, Iowa, was arrested on Saturday after being identified as the agent’s pursuer. It is known that he is a QAnon (he was wearing a conspiracy group T-shirt) and that he was fired from the construction company he had been working for a few years.

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