Federal prosecutors are seeking 14 years in prison for a Jan. 6 rioter whose lawyers say 'idolized' former President Trump and who admitted to tasing former D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Mike Fanone in the neck.
Daniel "D.J." Rodriguez wrote in a letter to the former officer he assaulted that he wished he was smarter. The feds say his actions amount to terrorism.U.S. District Court for the District of ColumbiaWASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are seeking 14 years in federal prison for a violent Jan. 6 rioter who his lawyers say"idolized" Donald Trump and thought of the former president as the"father figure" he never had.
"Mr. Rodriguez, who grew up without a father and who never completed high school, was someone who believed the former president’s lies because Mr. Rodriguez deeply respected and idolized Trump," they wrote of Rodriguez, who they said held"low-level employment" in retail and factories for twenty years.
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