Rioter Who Assaulted Michael Fanone Gets 12.5 Years

June 21, 2023 Extremists, Trump cultists

Daniel “D.J.” Rodriguez, a California man who traveled to D.C. with fellow Trump supporters who belonged to a Telegram group called the “PATRIOTS 45 MAGA Gang,” pleaded guilty in February to felony inflicting bodily injury on officers using a deadly or dangerous weapon. “There will be blood,” Rodriguez wrote in “MAGA Gang” Telegram chat on the night of Jan. 5, just hours before attending Trump’s rally at the White House Ellipse. “Welcome to the revolution.”

On Jan. 6, after joining the fight in the Capitol’s lower west tunnel — where some of the most violent scenes of the day played out — Rodriguez attacked officer Michael Fanone, later bragging about his actions in the Telegram chat. “Omg I did so much f—ing s— [right now] and got away,” Rodriguez wrote to fellow members of the Patriots 45 MAGA Gang. “Tazzed the f— out of the blue.” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson imposed Rodriguez’s 151-month sentence on Wednesday.

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BREAKING: the insurrectionist that drove a stun gun into the neck of Officer Fanone has been sentenced to 12.5 years in prison. https://t.co/RsfnpV2DVe

— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) June 21, 2023

“What do you want me to tell you? That I
tased him? Yes. Am I a fucking piece of shit? Yes.”

Here’s Trump fanatic Danny Rodriguez confessing to electroshocking D.C. Officer Mike Fanone on Jan. 6.

(Will add key moments of the FBI interview here as the videos process.) pic.twitter.com/p033Qw87ok

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 1, 2021

“Head restrained Officer Fanone and dragged him deeper into the hostile mob for twenty-five seconds. Head continued to restrain Officer Fanone as Daniel Rodriguez applied a taser to the back of the officer’s neck.” https://t.co/N5Vut8RC5d pic.twitter.com/262OvZriDZ

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) October 19, 2022

⚡️JUST IN: Daniel Rodriguez, the guy who electroshocked U.S. Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone, is trying to get his confession thrown out — the one where he cried, said he was worried that his “mom’s gonna find out” what he did, and called himself a… https://t.co/sFh3HFPC3t pic.twitter.com/8fNbtYxsyr

— @HomegrownTerrorists (@homegrowntrrsts) November 17, 2021