1/6 Officer Michael Fanone Presents Sedition Hunter with Handcuffs Used to Arrest the Trump Supporter Who Attacked Him

Retired twenty yr DC Police Officer Michael Fanone was brutally attacked on January sixth 2021 by Trump supporters making an attempt to steal the 2020 election. Over the weekend, he introduced sedition hunter Forrest Rogers with {the handcuffs} used to arrest MAGA terrorist Danny Rodriguez, who drove a stun gun into Fanone’s neck.

“A extremely cool second this weekend: Michael Fanone presenting @Forrest_Rogers with {the handcuffs} used to arrest #TaserPrick Danny Rodriguez (the Trump fanatic who drove a stun gun into Fanone’s neck on Jan. 6 as a result of he believed Trump’s lies in regards to the 2020 election),” NBC justice reporter Ryan Reilley, writer of Sedition Hunters, shared over the video.

A extremely cool second this weekend: Michael Fanone presenting @Forrest_Rogers with {the handcuffs} used to arrest #TaserPrick Danny Rodriguez (the Trump fanatic who drove a stun gun into Fanone’s neck on Jan. 6 as a result of he believed Trump’s lies in regards to the 2020 election). pic.twitter.com/jXlI8cmSpN

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) November 6, 2023

Forrest Rogers is an American open supply investigative reporter for Switzerland primarily based NZZ information and a sedition hunter, who used abilities regulation enforcement lagged behind in, to establish most of the 1/6 Trump terrorists. These abilities helped establish Danny Rodriguez, as a part of Rogers’ work for the web Sedition Hunters group.

Ryan Reilly reported in June:

Forrest Rogers, an American dwelling in Germany on Jan. 6, first surfaced proof that Rodriguez electroshocked Fanone after having pored over on-line video body by body as a part of his work for Deep State Canine, one of many teams of on-line Sedition Hunters that popped up within the wake of Jan. 6 to establish Capitol rioters. After Rogers tweeted video of the incident, Rodriguez was recognized by activists who knew the MAGA-hatted man from a protest scene in Beverly Hills, California.

Rodriguez was then recognized in a February 2021 HuffPost story, and the FBI arrested him the subsequent month. In an FBI interview, Rodriguez known as himself a “f—ing piece of s–t” and stated he was “not good.” Rodriguez stated he was influenced by the far-right conspiracy principle web site Infowars, in addition to conservative commentators like Steven Crowder, Mark Cube and the “Hodgetwins” brothers duo. Rodriguez, who believed Trump’s lies in regards to the 2020 presidential election, informed the FBI that Trump had “known as us” to Washington on Jan. 6 and that he felt an obligation to answer the commander-in-chief.

Rodriguez, who bragged on a Trump MAGA telegram chat “Omg I did a lot f—ing s— [right now] and obtained away. Tazzed the f— out of the blue,” was sentenced to 12.5 years in jail in June of this yr for felony conspiracy, inflicting bodily damage on officers utilizing a lethal or harmful weapon, and extra. Federal prosecutors accused him of an act of terrorism on prime of Director Wray calling the occasions of 1/6 home terrorist.

Rodriguez didn’t apologize to Officer Fanone.

Republicans have martyred 1/6 MAGA Trump supporters whilst they declare they again the blue. The decide known as Rodriguez “among the many most critical offenders” of the terrorist assault on 1/6.

Reilley’s June piece additionally recounted Fanone’s necessary phrases, “Your honor, we should all be a part of within the combat towards Donald Trump and the damaging, divisive motion he has come to signify. We should supply him no protected harbor and to his enablers — whether or not in enterprise, in politics and the media — give no quarter. Within the combat to protect our Republic, there may be no spectators.”

Fanone, a former Trump voter and self-described “redneck”, has written his personal guide, “Maintain the Line: The Rebel and One Cop’s Battle for America’s Soul,” which Simon and Schuster begins to explain thusly, “When Michael Fanone self-deployed to the Capitol on January 6, 2021, he had no concept his life was about to vary. When he obtained to the entrance of the road, he urged his fellow officers to carry it towards the rising crowd of insurrectionists—till he discovered himself pulled into the mob, tased till he had a coronary heart assault, and viciously crushed with a Blue Lives Matter flag as shouts to kill him rang out.”