"It has to be crystal clear that this is not patriotism, it is not standing up for America to stand up for one man who knows full well that he lost...
"What happened on January 6 and the effort to keep that spirit alive... is the utter antithesis of what America stands for. It is the pure embodiment of tyranny and authoritarianism." -- Judge Amy Berman Jackson, sentencing Iowa MAGA cultist and insurrectionist Kyle Young to 7 years in prison for his assault on now former Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone. Judge Jackson referred to Young as "a one- man wrecking ball" as he carried out his assault, which cost Fanone his career and nearly his life:
Kyle Young, 38, is the first rioter to be sentenced for the group attack on Fanone, who was dragged into the mob, beaten and electrocuted until he suffered a heart attack and lost consciousness.
“You were a one-man wrecking ball that day,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson said. “You were the violence.”
Fanone resigned from the D.C. police late last year, saying fellow officers turned on him for speaking so publicly about the Capitol attack and former president Donald Trump’s role in it. In court Tuesday, Fanone directly confronted his attacker, telling Young, “I hope you suffer.”
“The assault on me by Mr. Young cost me my career,” Fanone said. “It cost me my faith in law enforcement and many of the institutions I dedicated two decades of my life to serving.”
We hope he and all the other insurrectionists suffer, too.
