He sat there crying for a good 20 minutes. But this was the first time he’d viewed it with other people, watched them witness what he lived through, see it through his eyes, feel his aggression, his valor, his abject terror. And suddenly, for the first time since that day, Fanone was sobbing uncontrollably, shoulders heaving as his buddies put their arms around him.įanone-40, nearly broke, living with his mother, seeing ghosts, unable to return to duty in the only job he’d ever loved, possibly forever-had seen the footage a hundred times. The bar fell silent as the body-cam footage played. A man’s voice: “I got one!” Then Fanone began to scream the high-pitched, undignified screams of a man being tased in the back of the neck. The footage showed Fanone getting pulled out into the scrum. The day he pleaded for his life as they threatened to shoot him with his own gun, telling the rioters he had kids, until they relented and spared him. The day Fanone was dragged down the Capitol’s marble stairs, beaten with pipes and poles, tear-gassed and stun-gunned. metropolitan police department (MPD) who’d planned to spend his evening shift buying heroin undercover, voluntarily rushed to defend the seat of American democracy and wound up in hand-to-hand combat with a horde hellbent on unstealing the election. It had been four months since the day Fanone nearly died defending the Capitol-the day a self-described redneck cop who voted for Donald Trump was beaten unconscious by a mob waving Thin Blue Line flags and chanting “U.S.A.” The day Fanone, a narcotics officer with the D.C. Mike Fanone-wiry, bearded, his arms and neck covered in tattoos-nursed a Modelo at the bar and took it all in again. “This is approximately 3:15 on that day.”
“Officer Fanone is outside on the Capitol steps on the lower west terrace,” Lemon said. 6 insurrection, airing publicly for the first time. The truth-not the lies that you’ve been hearing.” The screen filled with Fanone’s body-camera footage from the Jan. But it is the truth of what happened that day. “A true American hero, officer Michael Fanone,” intoned the host, Don Lemon.
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