A California man who used an electroshock weapon on a Washington police officer throughout the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol was sentenced to 12.5 years in jail Wednesday.
Daniel Rodriguez, 40, pleaded responsible in February to 4 felony counts, together with conspiracy and assaulting a regulation enforcement officer with a lethal or harmful weapon. At his sentencing, U.S. District Choose Amy Berman Jackson described him as a “one-man military of hate, attacking cops and destroying property,” NBC Information reported.
“You confirmed up in D.C. spoiling for a battle,” Berman continued, The Wall Avenue Journal reported.
Within the lead-up to his sentencing, prosecutors laid out proof that Rodriguez pressed an electroshock weapon twice into the neck of Washington Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who was swept into the mob whereas guarding the Decrease West Terrace tunnel on the Capitol. Fanone was capable of retreat from the rioters earlier than collapsing, and a fellow officer got here to help him.
Fanone spoke at Rodriguez’s sentencing on Wednesday, saying he feels nothing for the felony.
“I don’t give a shit about Daniel Rodriguez. He ceased to exist to me as an individual a very long time in the past,” Fanone, now retired from the police drive, mentioned in court docket, NBC Information reported. “Any compassion or empathy I felt towards those that laid siege to our Capitol, whose actions I felt had been no less than partly influenced by their chief Donald Trump and his lies, has been eroded — eroded by the assaults directed at me and my household by supporters of Donald Trump and the right-wing media.”
Fanone additionally referred to as for the Justice Division to indict Trump for the violence, saying he represents the “divisive motion” that led to the Capitol riot.
Two different males are serving jail time for attacking Fanone. Albuquerque Cosper Head was sentenced final yr to 7.5 years and Kyle Younger to seven years.
Prosecutors sought 14 years for Rodriguez, noting in a court docket submitting forward of sentencing that he wrote in a bunch chat with different Trump supporters: “There might be blood. Welcome to the revolution.”
On his means out of court docket Wednesday, in line with a number of reporters overlaying the trial, Rodriguez shouted: “Trump received!”