A police officer on duty during the January 6 assault on the US Capitol building has described it as a 'medieval battle scene' in which he was beaten and tasered before suffering a heart attack.
Mr Fanone continued:"Once I was out in the crowd, I remember being struck from every direction with fists and metal objects. I do remember, at one point, yelling out that I had kids, trying to appeal to the humanity of some of the individuals in the crowd, and at that time I was being shot with a Taser device.
"While I may have been authorised to use deadly force against some of those individuals, there was a likelihood that some people would be injured, and possibly killed, who I did not intend to use force against. I was also concerned about having my gun stripped away from me. "There were other rioters that were fighting with them over the ability to get to me, to continue to assault me, so it was a strange dynamic for a few minutes until I was able to be rescued by my colleagues."Mr Fanone, 42, says he thought his life was in danger as soon as he saw the situation that had developed at the Capitol.
The former police officer, now a law enforcement analyst, has given his testimony to the House committee set up to investigate the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
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