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Emily Hernandez

Pardoned January 6 defendant

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Emily Hernandez is from Sullivan, Missouri, and one of the most photographed faces of January 6. She was 21 years old on January 6, 2021, and a photo of her holding a piece of Speaker Pelosi's broken nameplate made her one of the most recognized images of that day (FACT: NBC News). Her federal case was small and she resolved it fast. She pleaded guilty on January 10, 2022, to a single misdemeanor count, entering and remaining in a restricted building. On April 11, 2022, she was sentenced to 30 days, one year of supervised release, 80 hours of community service, and $500 restitution (FACT: DOJ, NPR Jan. 6 archive). She was never charged with assaulting anyone or damaging anything. WHERE THINGS STAND: On January 20, 2025, presidential clemency covered January 6-related cases, including hers. FULL RECORD, because this archive does not hide receipts: in a separate Missouri state case unrelated to January 6, Hernandez pleaded guilty and was sentenced in January 2025 to 10 years for a January 2022 wrong-way crash that killed a woman and injured the woman's husband (FACT: NBC News, The Hill, FOX 2 St. Louis). That is part of her story too, and her family is the one who should tell the rest of it. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:21-cr-747, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Charge of conviction: entering and remaining in a restricted building (misdemeanor). Arrested: January 19, 2021. Initial appearance: February 2, 2021. Pleaded guilty: January 10, 2022. Sentenced: April 11, 2022, to 30 days incarceration, one year supervised release (80 hours community service), $500 restitution. Clemency: full pardon, January 20, 2025. WHAT THIS DOES NOT PROVE: the January 6 federal case, on its own record, never charged Hernandez with violence or property destruction. Her sentence reflects that. The 2022 Missouri crash is a separate case, a separate court, and a separate set of facts, and it is listed here because this archive states the full record, not a curated one. This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.