WASHINGTON DC — A Donald Trump supporter who placed a taser to the neck of a DC police officer who was kidnapped by the mob during the attack on the Capitol was sentenced to 12.5 years in prison Wednesday.
Daniel “DJ” Rodriguez, a California man who traveled to DC with other Trump supporters who belonged to a Telegram group called the “PATRIOTS 45 MAGA Gang,” pleaded guilty in February to felony conspiracy, obstruction of official proceeding , tampering with documents or procedures, and inflicting bodily injury on officers using a deadly or dangerous weapon.
The injured officer, Michael Fanone, participated in the hearing against Rodriguez, calling the defendant’s life story “pathetic.” Fanone also pointed out that he lost his career, his friends and his faith in the criminal justice system because of what he went through that day.
For her part, US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson imposed Rodriguez’s sentence saying he was a “one-man army of hate, attacking police officers and destroying property” on January 6.
