D.C. police officer Michael Fanone harassed by protesters in minutes following Jan. 6 hearings

Then a gentleman with a black hat, keeping a large anti-Trump banner with a image of Trump on it and graphics that read “toxic loser,” stepped in.

The gentleman has been discovered as Stephen Parlato, an illustrator from Boulder, Colorado. The online video exhibits that Parlato made use of the banner to reduce off one of the protesters from having into Fanone’s encounter then, one of the protestors seems to trip and fall. The guy commences screaming to nearby police officers that Parlato “just hit me with his pole.”

In accordance to a video taken by April D. Ryan, White Home correspondent from The Grio, Parlato was afterwards arrested, and the protester was taken away in an ambulance.

Parlato suggests in the video he was there to guidance the Jan. 6 hearings and stepped in with his indication since the protestors were “verbally assaulting him [Fanone],” and they were being “within inches of his encounter.” Parlato adds that Fanone “was seeking to get absent. He’d stroll 1 way, and they’d adhere to him the other way. They were insulting people today. They were inquiring rude concerns.”

The Publish stories that on Thursday morning, Fanone had attended the trial of a person of his attackers on Jan. 6.

Lucas Denney, 44, pleaded guilty to assault and throwing a plastic pipe into police traces, and then attacking Fanone with other rioters

“I do not treatment how a great deal time Mr. Denney is sentenced to,” Fanone explained in court docket. “I am only intrigued in what Mr. Denney does with all those days, and I hope from the bottom of my coronary heart that he suffers.”

Fanone, who operates as an on-air commentator with CNN, described the day he was violently attacked.

“I was dragged from the front of the police line, pulled into the group, and violently crushed and electrocuted with a stun gun,” he explained. “I was sooner or later dragged to the law enforcement line by demonstrators who intervened on my behalf. It is likely that with no the intervention of those demonstrators, I would have shed my everyday living.”