Daniel Rodriguez, the Jan. 6 rioter who jabbed a stun gun into the neck of a D.C. police officer as the cop was attacked by the mob, has been handed a 12.5-year prison sentence.
to felony conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, tampering with documents or proceedings, and inflicting bodily injury on officers using a dangerous weapon.
His attorneys blamed Donald Trump’s “incendiary lies” for creating “a frenzy of anger and uncertainty” and leading Rodriguez to believe the election was rigged. “I don’t give a shit about Daniel Rodriguez,” Fanone said at the rioter’s sentencing hearing. “Any compassion or empathy I felt toward those who laid siege to our Capitol, whose actions I felt were at least in part influenced by their leader Donald Trump and his lies, has been eroded.
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