Four years after Election Day 2020, a former Marine is the latest Jan. 6 rioter to be convicted

Even on Election Day 2024, the fallout from the riots by Donald Trump supporters after the 2020 election continues to play out — with a man who was at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and then participated in an anti-government group sentenced to probation on Tuesday.

The case, when Fi Duong of Northern Virginia was first arrested, was one of the starkest reminders of the potential danger that law enforcement was pursuing among extremists after the Capitol attack.

Duong eventually pleaded guilty to misdemeanor civil disturbance for his entry into the building, which he filmed while wearing black clothing and a mask.

After the attack, Duong hosted meetings at his home with others who discussed secession from the US, assembling Molotov cocktails and surveillance of the Capitol, prosecutors said, citing an undercover agent who also attended the meetings. Ultimately, he did not face charges related to that group.

“His participation in the Jan. 6 mutiny was a betrayal of his Marine oath, and the misreading of his conduct as participation in American domestic extremism is extremely troubling,” prosecutors wrote to the judge before sentencing.

D.C. District Court Judge Paul Friedman, who has sentenced hundreds of rioters since Jan. 6, told Duong at Tuesday morning’s court hearing that he believed he would not commit another crime.

“This is an event in your history. Now you have a felony conviction for the rest of your life,” Friedman said. “I want to wish you the best of luck in the years to come.”

Duong will serve 36 months of probation, pay $2,000 in restitution to the Capitol and do 50 hours of community service, the judge ordered.

He received no jail time because he followed court orders while awaiting sentencing for about three and a half years, essentially under house arrest, Friedman added.

Duong now works at a go-kart track and takes care of his wife and their special needs child.

Friedman on Tuesday injected very little of the political tension of the Jan. 6 attack into the proceedings — a departure from many of the Jan. 6 rioters’ sentencings, where the justices repeatedly condemned the extremist political climate created by Trump.

Duong’s lawyer pointed out that Duong still faces the penalty of being a felon, which will prevent him from ever holding elected office and other disqualifications.

“If January 6 is in fact a crime of ideology, the government knows that blanket deterrence is not working,” Sabrina Shroff, Duong’s defense lawyer, told the court. She added that Duong was sorry for his crime.

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