A former Washington, D.C. police officer who defended the Capitol from a mob of Donald Trump’s supporters on January 6 had to be pulled away from a heated argument with a prominent election denier in the middle of Jack Smith’s first-ever public testimony.
Michael Fanone, an outspoken and heavily tattooed former officer with the city’s Metropolitan Police Department, wore a Dropkick Murphy’s T-shirt with the slogan “fighting Nazis since 1996” as he sat with other former police officers to watch Smith’s testimony to the House Judiciary Committee.
