A Florida man was sentenced to nearly five years in prison on Friday for assaulting a police officer during the Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021.
Mason Joel Courson, 27, from Tamarac, Florida, received a 57-month imprisonment term after pleading guilty in November 2022, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia.
Courson and other protesters disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress, which was convened to verify and count the electoral votes for the 2020 presidential election.
Authorities said Courson was part of a mob that confronted law enforcement officials at the Archway and Lower West Terrace tunnel leading into the Capitol building. This is the location from which presidents emerge on their inauguration day….