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A police officer assaulted by rioters outside the Capitol building has described how he pleaded for his life as he heard the mob threaten to kill him with his own gun. Michael Fanone, a 40-year-old father of four, said he was pulled into the crowd and dragged to the ground by the pro-Trump crowd as he attempted to defend the Capitol during the riot on January 6. During the ordeal he was repeatedly Tasered by the rioters, who also stole his spare ammunition and his police radio. Some of the mob then attempted to grab his gun and screamed "kill him with his own gun," he told CNN. Offic...

Federal prosecutors offered an ominous new assessment of last week's siege of the U.S. Capitol by President Donald Trump's supporters on Thursday, saying in a court filing that rioters intended "to capture and assassinate elected officials."

Officer Fanone was admitted to hospital following the assault on January 6 but has since been released. A DC Police official told The Telegraph that officers in the department had been deeply scarred by the day's events. "I think many of our people are still processing what happened," the official said. The violent scenes that unfolded at the Capitol on January 6 shocked America and prompted one of the largest investigations ever undertaken by the FBI. Investigators are trawling through hours of footage to identify and arrest the perpetrators. In one of the most horrific clips from the day,�...

Arkansas man charged in attack on D.C. police officer at Capitol Advertisement He’s alleged to have beaten a Washington police officer guarding a Capitol entrance with an American flag attached to a pole. A man identified in court documents as Peter Stager allegedly partook in the riot and assaulted the officer from the Washington, D.C., police department. The officer was guarding an entrance of the U.S. Capitol after 4 p.m., when members of the mob grabbed him, dragged him down a set of stairs, forced him into a prone position and proceeded to forcibly and repeatedly strike him, according ...