A good news, bad news, development is breaking today on the FBI front regarding the riot. The first video of an interrogation of one of the individual rioters has been released. It is encouraging when one sees how seriously the FBI is taking the matter with the people who surely thought they would break in, do their thing, go home as “protesters” and never have consequences.

It is outrageous that the people who worried enough to buy burner phones with cash and had a war room look to have known that they knew they were taking a risk all along.

This was one bad guy.

Regardless, from ABC News:

The first video of an FBI interrogation of an alleged Capitol rioter has been released. In the clip, Danny Rodriguez, who authorities say broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6, along with others, is seen crying and admitting that he tased Metropolitan Police Department officer Michael Fanone.

“I mean, that sounds stupid. I don’t know if I tasered him to protect him, but maybe just to, like — so he wouldn’t struggle and get hurt, maybe,” Rodriguez told two FBI agents in the clip. “If they’re going to beat him up or injury him or, like — I don’t know if they’re going to — I don’t know what was going to happen to him. And, honestly, I didn’t think very much about it because, when I did it, I was like, oh, my God. What did I just do? And I got out of there. I left. I did it and I left.”

During the interrogation, he was shown Fanone’s account of what occurred on Jan. 6, which caused him to break down. “What do you want me to tell you? That I tased him? Yes,” Rodriguez told investigators. “Am I (expletive) piece of (expletive)? Yes.”

We agree. And he needs severe punishment.

And yet where is the punishment that sent him and 500 others? Never mind prosecution, we don’t even see an investigation. It is time for Garland to be fired, past time.

“What do you want me to tell you? That I
tased him? Yes. Am I a fucking piece of shit? Yes.”

Here’s Trump fanatic Danny Rodriguez confessing to electroshocking D.C. Officer Mike Fanone on Jan. 6.

(Will add key moments of the FBI interview here as the videos process.) pic.twitter.com/p033Qw87ok

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) December 1, 2021

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