Lindsey Graham called on cops to kill Jan. 6 mob that stormed US Capitol, book reveals
‘We gave you guns, and you should have used them’: Lindsay Graham called on police to kill Jan. 6 mob as it stormed US Capitol, the book revealed
- Former Washington, D.C. and Capitol Police Officer Michael Fannon said Graham spoke with him in May 2021.
- Both were at a conference involving Republican support for the Jan. 6 riot investigation.
- Fannon told Graham that law enforcement officers at the Capitol must adhere to certain rules prohibiting the use of assault weapons in certain circumstances.
- Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and the family of Brian Schicknick, the police officer who was killed the day after last year’s riots, were also present at the meeting.
- The conversation took place just four months after the Capitol was attacked.
Republican Party senator Lindsay Graham He told a former Capitol police officer who was badly injured in the January 6 riots that he should have shot rioting Trump supporters in the head, a new memoir reveals.
Michael Fannon who worked at Metropolitan Police Department 2001-2021 District of Columbia chief executive said South Carolina politicians offered their two cents about the situation when they first met in May 2021, four months after the attacks .
Fanone recalled in her memoir, Hold the Line: The Insurrection and One Cop’s Battle for America’s Soul, due out October 11. And you should have used them. I don’t understand why it didn’t happen.
Later, the former police officer tells Graham that a law enforcement officer Houses of Parliament Certain rules must be observed that prohibit the use of lethal weapons against crowds.
Also present at the meeting were Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and the family of Brian Schicknick, the police officer who was killed the day after last year’s riots.
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham (right) tells former Capitol Police Officer Michael Fannon that he doesn’t understand why he didn’t shoot a pro-Trump mob in the head in the Jan. 6 attack. .
Fanone (pictured) recalled Graham making the comments in May 2021 while pitching a bill to Republicans in favor of an independent investigation into last year’s Capitol riots.
Fanone suffered a heart attack and traumatic brain injury after being beaten several times with a stun gun and flagpole during the attack.
Republican senators ultimately blocked the bill, which ruled in favor of an independent commission leading the case.
Fannon has since retired from the military and is now an on-air contributor for CNN.
However, at the time, the former officer had secretly recorded a meeting with House minority leader Kevin McCarthy.
He said members of the California Republican Party tried to downplay the Capitol riot, calling it “not only shocking, but shameful.” Politico report.
The cover of Fannon’s book Hold the Line, which recalls Graham’s interactions with the author, will be published on October 11.
Photo: Rioters loyal to President Donald Trump attempt to break through police barriers at DC’s Capitol.
Fanone, who calls himself a “lifelong Republican,” told Rolling Stone last week in an explosive interview that McCarthy was a “fucking weasel.”
McCarthy does not return comments.
Meanwhile, a Washington, DC judge sentenced the mob who assaulted Fanone on Wednesday to seven years in prison.
Cale Young, described by Judge Amy Berman-Jackson on Jan. 6 as “one wrecking ball,” has the toughest and longest sentence compared to other arrests in last year’s riots. I was handed one.
Fannon was a former Donald Trump supporter and voted for him in the 2016 US presidential election.
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