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Bodycam video shows a DC police officer being assaulted by Capitol rioters, with one yelling: 'I got one!'

Sinéad Baker   

Bodycam video shows a DC police officer being assaulted by Capitol rioters, with one yelling: 'I got one!'
  • CNN aired footage of a Washington, DC, police officer being attacked during the Capitol riot.
  • The officer, Michael Fanone, can be heard screaming while a voice from the crowd said: "I got one!"
  • The officer is also heard pleading, saying, "I have kids."

Body-camera footage shows a Washington, DC, police officer being assaulted by rioters at the January 6 Capitol insurrection.

The footage, $4, is from the body camera worn during the riot by Officer Michael Fanone of the Metropolitan Police Department. Five people, including a Capitol Police officer, died as a result of the violence.

In the video, Fanone could be heard screaming while a voice said, "I got one!"

Watch the clip here:

The video recorded rioters attacking Fanone with a stun gun, CNN reported.

At one point, Fanone can be heard pleading, saying: "I have kids."

At one point, another person in the crowd seems to intervene and get others to move away from Fanone, saying, "Don't hurt him."

Prosecutors $4 that during the riot Fanone was shot with a stun gun several times, dragged down steps, and beaten with a flagpole, and that he had a heart attack.

Fanone previously told CNN $4.

$4 in the insurrection so far.

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