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January 6, 2021: Whitewashing of the Insurrection

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This 10-minute interview with Officer Michael Fanone of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is very powerful.

Watch the video.  It’s just 10 minutes of your time; then if you feel like I do, share it far and wide.

[Officer] Fanone suffered a heart attack and a concussion during the insurrection and is now dealing with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.

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“I experienced the most brutal, savage hand-to-hand combat of my entire life,” he said Tuesday. “Let alone my policing career, which spans almost two decades. It was nothing that I had ever thought would be a part of my law enforcement career, nor was I prepared to experience.”

Federal prosecutors have filed charges against Thomas Sibick, who allegedly participated in the assault of Fanone. Prosecutors said Sibick was seen in police body-camera footage assaulting Fanone while he lay on the ground outside the Capitol during the riot.

During the brawl outside the Capitol, Sibick allegedly grabbed Fanone’s badge and radio, and he later posted a photo of himself holding a police shield on Facebook, court filings say.

“I want people to understand the significance of January 6,” Fanone said Tuesday. “I want people to understand that thousands of rioters came to the Capitol hell-bent on violence and destruction and murder.”

Read the CNN article

h/t zhena gogolia

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36Comments

  1. 1.

    hueyplong

    Prosecutions + convictions, with wide dissemination of the evidence supporting those convictions.

    That’s what we need.

  2. 2.

    trollhattan

    I really, really want those traitorous bastards to pay, pay with their freedom, pay with their precious money (and really experience economic anxiety), pay with being exposed to the world for the murderous traitors they are.

  5. 5.

    Josie

    Thank you, WaterGirl, for front paging this.  I hope everyone takes the time to watch the video and share it where appropriate.  These traitors must not be allowed to bury this story.

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    Imagine having the presence of mind, as you are being attacked, to think through the fact that these people are trying to kill you, and that this is when you are allowed to use lethal force, yet realizing that there are so many people that that if you use lethal force to protect yourself, the situation can only be worse.

  11. 11.

    opiejeanne

    @WaterGirl:  I can’t imagine being that rational while being assaulted as he was.

    They all need to be kept behind bars until their trials. All of them.

  12. 12.

    lowtechcyclist

    January 6th, 2021: a day that will live in infamy.

    Anyone who defends or excuses the insurrectionists and seditionists who were part of the mob that day is a traitor, as far as I’m concerned. Let alone the members of the mob themselves: we should repurpose Gitmo for them.

    (Speaking of repurposing, I haven’t heard and can’t seem to find any better words than those that FDR used to describe the attack on Pearl Harbor. They fit this moment.)

  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    @lowtechcyclist:  There is a certain tone in Officer Fanone’s voice whenever he says “the 6th” that reminds me of the tone we used at first when talking about “September 11th” before it was shortened to 9-11 and the reverence was dropped.

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    What I don’t know is what we can/should do about it.  Do we call our congress critters every day?  That hardly seems like enough.

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    OT, but I can’t find today’s press briefing with Jen Psaki.  I wonder if there isn’t one because of the president’s speech tonight?

  17. 17.

    trollhattan

    Related: one of the capitol invaders is invoking the “Moops” defense for the note he left Nancy Pelosi. Seriously.

    By Monica Hesse Washington Post

    A few days ago, noted Capitol rioting defendant Richard “Bigo” Barnett’s attorneys submitted court filings alleging that the government had gotten it all wrong, that the government was engaged in a “deliberate attempt” to paint Bigo in the “worst possible light.” Though their client had indeed left a note in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office after he infiltrated her workspace and propped his feet on a desk during the Jan. 6 invasion, the note did not say, “Nancy, Bigo was here, you bitch,” the defense explained. “Rather, it said, “Hey Nancy Bigo was here biatd.”

    This, of course, changes everything.

    If a rioter breaches the United States Capitol, amid a violent attempt to overturn an lawful election, and leaves a note calling the most powerful woman in government a bitch, then that would be bad. But if he leaves her a note calling her a “biatd,” that is obviously different. Biatd? It’s whimsical: We stormed the Capitol. Ha ha. Nancy will get a kick out of this. Biatd!

    It could be a nickname? It could be that Bigo was trying to call Nancy a bialy, a holeless bagel, and simply lost his train of biatd.

    Do you see?

  19. 19.

    geg6

    I saw several clips from that interview and thought that Don Lemon did a great job with it, surprisingly enough.

    And I cannot possibly love Officer Fanone more. My heart breaks for him and all of the good Capitol cops.

  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    @geg6: Don Lemon mentioned at the top of this particular video that he (Don) didn’t expect this interview to be so hard, and mentioned that he and the officer had become friends since Jan 6.

  24. 24.

    Another Scott

    @WaterGirl:

    If you really want to know, UrbanDictionary has several potential answers.

    Misprinted word in Trivial Pursuit of Seinfeld which is actually Moors. Because of this, the Moors is now sometimes referred to as the Moops.

    […]

    kyles band on south park

    […]

    me: hey have you seen that girl?

    friend: oh yes, moop. she’s taken over my fyp.

    HTH!!!1 ;-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  26. 26.

    Mike in NC

    Will tune in tonight to see President Joe Biden confront the disloyal opposition tonight. I hope he makes it clear that the Attorney General is going to prosecute the fascist mob that the Orange Clown instigated to attack the Capitol, including members of Congress where appropriate.

    No doubt Cruz and Hawley and others will be too busy to attend.

  27. 27.

    Another Scott

    Another interesting word trending today – Banjaxed.

    Ed Meese is cackling at the thought*…

    Grrr….

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    * – Yes, remote learning has expanded “school”, but teachers and administrators need to grow up.

  29. 29.

    gene108

    @hueyplong:

    Prosecutions + convictions, with wide dissemination of the evidence supporting those convictions.

    What we really need is prosecutors working their way up to Congressional staff, and maybe even a Congress person or two.

    I view January 6, 2021 as a test run.

    Not only does the leadership of the Oath Keepers, III%’s, etc. need to be decapitated, any sympathetic Republican official needs to pay a price.

  30. 30.

    debbie

    @WaterGirl:

    I remember watching this officer being interviewed right after the riot. He said toward the end of the attack, they were yelling at him that they supported him and the police, and he responded saying something like, “Then why are you trying to fucking kill me?”

  31. 31.

    Ken

    @WaterGirl: It was used around here a lot, back when the ACA had its first big Supreme Court case. IIRC that was based on a legal “theory” requiring an immensely strained “literal” reading of part of the statute, and the general assumption was that the five conservative “justices” would leap on that as an excuse to strike the whole thing.  “Sorry, the law says ‘Moops’, whole thing has to go.”

  32. 32.

    Rocks

    And in case nobody mentioned it yet, banned from owning or possessing any guns whatsoever for the rest of their lives.

  33. 33.

    J R in WV

    @Rocks:

    And in case nobody mentioned it yet, banned from owning or possessing any guns whatsoever for the rest of their lives.

    I think a federal felony conviction and 10 or 20 years in prison will take care of that gun ownership thingy. Ex-cons can’t legally obtain a firearm. Good thing, too.

    Hope the feds can find enough evidence to nail a big group of Republikkkan congress members also too.

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