A police officer who defended the U.S. Capitol during the January 6th insurrection says democracy is dead in America. He blames the Supreme Court for granting President Trump immunity for official acts.
Four years ago, then-outgoing President Donald Trump stood on the Ellipse on the National Mall and proclaimed to his supporters that they were “not going to take back your government with weakness” and that they should “fight like hell” or else they were “not going to have a country anymore.” A District of Columbia Metropolitan Police officer who defended the U.S. Capitol during the insurrection would be viciously assaulted. He was kicked and beaten.
His radio was ripped off his body; his badge stripped away from him. The group of men who assaulted him came at him five at a time. Fanone had a heart attack and lost consciousness. At one point during the assault, he pleaded with the Trump supporters clawing at him to consider his children. He poured himself into disseminating this warning while watching, like many others, as legal attempt after legal attempt to hold Trump to any account for his alleged role in the Jan. 6 events evaporated. The experience has left Fanone with no confidence in his fellow police officers, the justice system at large or the American public. “There’s no doubt in my mind that he got away with inciting an insurrection as well as defrauding the American people and attempting to subvert democracy,” Fanone told HuffPost during a phone interview just ahead of the fourth anniversary of the Capitol riot. “I don’t believe we live in a democracy anymore,” Fanone said. “I believe democracy in this country is dead, and it died when the Supreme Court granted the president of the United States immunity for official acts and then failed to define what the fuck official acts are.” The Supreme Court’s ruling in Trump v. United States in July found that as long as something could be shaded as an “official” act, prosecution was off the table. Key parts of the criminal indictment brought against Trump in the Jan. 6 case by then-special counsel Jack Smith
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