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PolitiFact | No, DC Officer Michael Fanone isn't man who stormed Capitol with Confederate flag

  

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Via:  john-russell  •  3 years ago  •  7 comments

By:   politifact

PolitiFact | No, DC Officer Michael Fanone isn't man who stormed Capitol with Confederate flag
As he defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone was beaten and tased, he test

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As he defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, D.C. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone was beaten and tased, he testified before a House select committee.

Fanone, 40, described being dragged into the crowd, stripped of his badge, and threatened with chants to "kill him with his own gun." He said he fell unconscious, suffered a heart attack, and was later diagnosed with a concussion, a brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Now, some social media users are falsely claiming that Fanone played a much different role during the insurrection — not as an officer guarding the Capitol, but as a rioter who stormed it.

Their posts on various platforms were flagged as part of Facebook's efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)

The posts shared July 28 on Facebook andInstagram place two photographs side by side, with text overlaid above them suggesting that they're the same person.

"It's the same b----," the text over the photographs says. "Yo Michael, we see you."

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Screenshots of social media posts falsely claiming Michael Fanone is the same person as a Capitol defendant.

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The captions published alongside the posts make similarlyfalse claims, or suggest that one person is a "crisis actor" who was pretending to be the other as part of a "deep state" scheme.

But the two men in the photographs are not the same person, and one wasn't pretending to be the other.

One photograph in the posts shows Fanone, the D.C. police officer, during his July 27 testimony before Congress. The other shows Kevin Seefried of Delaware, who was indicted on five charges after entering the Capitol with his son, Hunter Seefried, who was also indicted.

"That is not Officer Fanone," said Sean Hickman, spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., when asked about the second photograph showing Seefried.

Further proof that they are not the same includes their actions and outfits on Jan. 6.

Fanone was dragged into the crowd by rioters on the Capitol grounds that afternoon, the video footage from his body camera shows. The House select committee investigating the insurrection played the footage during his testimony, as Fanone talked about it. Fanone described to lawmakers his whereabouts throughout the day. He said he arrived at the Capitol around 3 p.m.

But around the same time on Jan. 6, Seefried was inside the Capitol. According to court filings, Seefried confirmed in a voluntary interview with the FBI that he had entered the Senate building through a broken window at approximately 2:13 p.m., and that he had brought a Confederate flag to Washington from his home in Delaware, where he usually displays it outside.

And while the photograph of Seefried in the social media posts shows him wearing a sweatshirt and a coat, Fanone was in "full uniform" at the Capitol, he testified. Court documents in the case against another man who allegedly assaulted Fanone confirm that he was dressed that way.

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JohnRussell
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1  seeder  JohnRussell    3 years ago

Crazy far right scumbags wont give this guy a moments peace. 

 
 
 
Tessylo
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1.1  Tessylo  replied to  JohnRussell @1    3 years ago

Oh FFS, anyone who dares to contradict the Turd Reich gets threatened.  Or tells the truth. 

Dr. Fauci was threatened by similar scumbags - that he and his family would be dragged into the streets and tortured and set on fire.

What a bunch of sick fucks.  

 
 
 
Tessylo
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1.2  Tessylo  replied to  JohnRussell @1    3 years ago

A certain poster had posted similar nonsense about how the FBI and CIA were involved.

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That's nuts.  

 
 
 
Ender
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2  Ender    3 years ago

Anything to cast doubt on the events of the day.

Loony Bachman was out saying all the people were actually Antifa people.

 
 
 
Tessylo
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2.1  Tessylo  replied to  Ender @2    3 years ago

You mean Marcus Bachman's beard?  That batshit crazy bitch?

 
 
 
Ender
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2.1.1  Ender  replied to  Tessylo @2.1    3 years ago

Yep. She has vids out. Saw some on twitter

 
 
 
JBB
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3  JBB    3 years ago

Of all those arrested for violent crimes at Trump's January 6th Insurrection zero were BLM or ANTIFA!

 
 

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