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Jilly_in_VA

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Thu Oct 27, 2022, 08:13 PM Oct 2022

Former MPD police officer confronts Jan. 6 Capitol attacker at sentencing

Former D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone appeared in court Thursday to confront a rioter who dragged him into the mob of Trump supporters that brutally assaulted him during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, urging a federal judge to hand down the maximum sentence possible for his crimes.

"I would trade all this attention to return to policing," Fanone said at the sentencing of Tennessee resident Albuquerque Head. "But I can't do that. And the catalyst for the loss of my career and the suffering that I've endured in the past 18 months is Albuquerque Head."

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ultimately sentenced Head to seven-and-a-half years in prison, describing him as one of the "most serious offenders" in her Jan. 6 caseload and "instrumental to one of the most horrific attacks on officers" that day.

Prosecutors had urged Judge Jackson to sentence Head to eight years in prison, one year longer than the sentence handed down to one of Head's co-defendants, Kyle Young, who also joined in the attack on Fanone.

They said the longer sentence was justified based on Head's initiation of the assault on Fanone and his substantial criminal history that includes roughly 45 prior arrests.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mpd-police-officer-confronts-jan-capitol-attacker-sentencing/story?id=92211175

Dude is a career criminal, FFS. Is it too mean to hope something bad happens to him in prison? (Just to clear things up, I am not referring to prison rape)

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Former MPD police officer confronts Jan. 6 Capitol attacker at sentencing (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Oct 2022 OP
TY for this report. Seems like Cha Oct 2022 #1

Cha

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1. TY for this report. Seems like
Thu Oct 27, 2022, 08:42 PM
Oct 2022

this Head person should have gotten more time since he's a Repeat Offender.

Michael Fanone.. Best of Good Luck in Healing from this Nightmare he lived through.

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