#new Calls are growing for a full audit of former D.C. Metro Police Officer Michael Fanone’s bank accounts after recently released body cam footage, from January 6, 2021, shows medics telling him he had “no obvious severe injuries” and “it’s fine now,”
This directly contradicts his later hospital bed photos, media tour, and sworn congressional testimony about nearly dying.
Medics examined Fanone on scene watch:
“No obvious severe injuries. Can’t find any fractures. Pupils are equal… Alright, dizzy at all? …
Fanone saying in the video “Uh no, it’s fine now.” and “Thanks buddy”
Then Fanone and his partner started joking and laughing about protesters begging for them to stop hitting them.
“If we sit down will you stop hitting us?” and joked about items getting stolen.
In the body cam of Fanone getting assessed, he never mentioned getting tased
Fanone was moving around, talking, and not showing major distress in the clip.
In July 2021, Fanone gave this sworn testimony to the House Select Committee:
“I was grabbed, beaten, tased, all while being called a traitor to my country. I was at risk of being stripped of, and killed with, my own firearm”
“I had been beaten unconscious and remained so for more than four minutes… At the hospital, doctors told me that I suffered a heart attack, and I was later diagnosed with a concussion, traumatic brain injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.”
However, video from Jan. 6th shows Fanone being ushered through the crowd and back to his fellow officers by protesters who were protecting him
Fanone then appeared in a hospital bed hooked up to monitors, which he and supporters used to highlight severe injuries.
He did media tours, wrote a book, and became a prominent voice on CNN and other mainstream media outlets pushing the “insurrection” narrative.
Fact checkers point out that court filings indicated he was tased, dragged into the crowd, hospitalized, diagnosed with a heart attack (or cardiac event), suffered a concussion, and TBI.
They say the “no severe injuries” check was an on-scene field assessment, not a full hospital workup.
Critics say this a clear discrepancy that warrants investigation for potential perjury or fraud.
