A California man who drove a stun gun into a police officer's neck during one of the most violent clashes of the U.S. Capitol riot was sentenced on Wednesday to more than 12 years in prison.
Another rioter had dragged Fanone into the crowd outside a tunnel on the Capitol's Lower West Terrace, where a line of police officers was guarding an entrance to the building. Other rioters began beating Fanone, who lost consciousness and suffered a heart attack after Rodriguez pressed the stun gun against his neck and repeatedly shocked him.
“I'm hopeful that Michael Fanone will be okay some day,” Rodriguez said. “It sounds like he's in a great deal of pain.” “Rodriguez’s criminal conduct on January 6 was the epitome of disrespect for the law; he battled with law enforcement at the U.S. Capitol for hours, nearly costing one officer his life, in order to stop the official proceeding happening inside,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing.
On Jan. 6, Rodriguez attended then-President Donald Trump's “Stop the Steal” rally before joining the mob of rioters who attacked police in the Lower West Terrance tunnel. Fanone was at the front of the police line when another rioter, Albuquerque Cosper Head, wrapped his arm around the officer's neck and dragged him out onto the terrace steps, then restrained Fanone while other rioters attacked him. Rodriguez shocked Fanone's neck with the stun gun, below the left ear of his police helmet.
In the days leading up to Jan. 6, Rodriguez spewed violent rhetoric in a Telegram group chat called “PATRIOTS 45 MAGA Gang.”
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