45* fan who assaulted Officer Fanone on Jan. 6 sentenced to more than 7 years in prison

Kyle Young, who took his son with him on Jan. 6, handed a stun gun to Danny Rodriguez, who electroshocked Officer Mike Fanone near the Capitol tunnel, prosecutors said.

WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump fan who took his teenage son along as he assaulted Mike Fanone, then a Washington, D.C., police officer, and another officer at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to more than seven years in prison Tuesday.

Kyle Young, 38 — an HVAC worker from Iowa whose lawyer said he was "injected" with lies about the 2020 election and who had asked his Facebook followers to join him at the “stop the steel,” referring to the "Stop the Steal" rally on Jan. 6 — pleaded guilty in May to a felony count of assaulting, resisting or impeding officers.

Young admitted that he used a strobe light to disorient police, helped throw a large audio speaker at police, grabbed Fanone's wrist when the mob abducted Fanone and made contact with another officer abducted by the mob.

Young's 86-month sentence matched what federal prosecutors sought. They argued that Young took part in the assault at the lower west tunnel of the Capitol, where "some of the most barbaric violence" took place on Jan. 6. As discovered by online sleuths, the government argued that Young handed a Taser to Danny Rodriguez, a MAGA fanatic who used it to electroshock Fanone in the neck on Jan. 6.

Young, trailed by his 16-year-old son, was right nearby as Rodriguez electroshocked Fanone, extensive video evidence shows. Rodriguez, who has been charged in connection with the riot, admitted the actions to the FBI; his case is pending.


Not as much of a sentence as I would like to have seen, but still not light, so there's that.

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I disagree, it was much too light. But it won’t matter because he’ll get a pardon in 2025.

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“Fan” ? No. Fanatic terrorist traitor to America.

shoulda shot'em

I would be fine with the sentence as long as, upon release from prison, he was stripped of his U.S. citizenship and deported to Somalia, Syria, or some other lovely country.

Young’s mugshot, proudly showing off his neckbeard (such as it was):

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I disagree, it was much too light. But it won’t matter because he’ll get a pardon in 2025.

...and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.