A Jan. 6 rioter who dragged former D.C. Police Officer Michael Fanone into the crowd on the steps of the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to 7.5 years in federal prison.
into the crowd on the steps of the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 7.5 years in federal prison on Thursday.
Fanone urged Judge Amy Berman Jackson to sentence Head to the maximum, saying that Head had cut his career in law enforcement short. Fanone suffered a heart attack and traumatic brain injury in the Jan. 6 assault, and ended up resigning from the Metropolitan Police Department.U.S. District Court for D.C.Head dragged Fanone into the mob on Jan. 6 while yelling “I got one!” Before that, he used a police shield to push against a line of police officers in the western-facing tunnel of the U.S.
Former Metropolitan police officer Michael Fanone during a House select committee hearing on July 12.Jackson also pointed out the irony that Fanone was attacked under a Blue Lives Matter flag. The people attacking Fanone “didn’t think Blue Lives mattered much at all” when officers were standing in their way, she said.
Jackson said it was important to send a message to those who would seek to overturn elections in the future.
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