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And suddenly, for the first time since that day, Fanone was sobbing uncontrollably, shoulders heaving as his buddies put their arms around him.ДЇanone-40, nearly broke, living with his mother, seeing ghosts, unable to return to duty in the only job heвЂ™d ever loved, possibly forever-had seen the footage a hundred times. The bar fell silent as the body-cam footage played. A manвЂ™s voice: вЂњI got one!вЂќ Then Fanone began to scream the high-pitched, undignified screams of a man being tased in the back of the neck. The footage showed Fanone getting pulled out into the scrum. Get a print of TIMEвЂ™s Cover Portrait of Mike Fanone here There is a thin blue line between order and chaos, and at that moment, Mike Fanone was it. Red hats and camo, Trump flags and American flags, all pressing forward, trying to break the copsвЂ™ tenuous hold on the central door into the building.

Bodies upon bodies as far as the eye could see.

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The crush parted, and the full scene came into view: the grand terrace, the teeming crowd. On the TV at the bar, FanoneвЂ™s hand strained to push them away. The day he pleaded for his life as they threatened to shoot him with his own gun, telling the rioters he had kids, until they relented and spared him. The day Fanone was dragged down the CapitolвЂ™s marble stairs, beaten with pipes and poles, tear-gassed and stun-gunned. metropolitan police department (MPD) whoвЂ™d planned to spend his evening shift buying heroin undercover, voluntarily rushed to defend the seat of American democracy and wound up in hand-to-hand combat with a horde hellbent on unstealing the election. It had been four months since the day Fanone nearly died defending the Capitol-the day a self-described redneck cop who voted for Donald Trump was beaten unconscious by a mob waving Thin Blue Line flags and chanting вЂњU.S.A.вЂќ The day Fanone, a narcotics officer with the D.C.

Mike Fanone-wiry, bearded, his arms and neck covered in tattoos-nursed a Modelo at the bar and took it all in again.