A man who tased a police officer in the neck during one of the most violent clashes of the Jan. 6 riots was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison Wednesday.
A Jan. 6 rioter who tased a police officer in the neck during one of the most violent clashes of the Capitol attack was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison Wednesday.
Daniel Joseph Rodriguez pleaded guilty earlier this year to multiple felony counts and admitted to the FBI that he drove a stun gun into the neck of then-Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone.Video of the violent clash was played during the Jan. 6 congressional committee hearings. Fanone told the committee about joining other officers on the front lines of the riot, saying his fellow officers "looked beat to hell," and described the rioters as terrorists.
"They became incredibly violent ... and you had a large group at the mouth of that tunnel entrance trying to push their way through the officers who were fighting to defend it," Fanone said. "I believe had they done so -- or had they accomplished that -- they would have trampled us to death. Most certainly you would have had police officers killed."
Fanone and other officers pushed the crowd out of the tunnel before he was forced off the police line by rioters.He recalled people yelling about killing him with his own gun as he was beaten, comparing the brawl to a "medieval battle scene" in a 2021 interview with ABC News Chief Justice Correspondent Pierre Thomas.
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