A man from upstate New York was accused of assaulting DC Metropolitan Police Officer (MPD) Mike Fanone outside the US Capitol on January 6, stealing his police badge and taking him back to his home in Buffalo, where he supposedly buried it in his backyard.
While trying to push protesters from the west front of the Capitol, Fanone, identified in court documents as “MF”, was pulled into the crowd where people beat him up, shocked him and stole his police badge, police radio and MPD broadcast. 17 – round comb, while trying to forcibly remove your service weapon from the fixed holster. He lost consciousness and was hospitalized because of injuries, including likely concussion, taser injuries and monitoring of cadmium activity, court documents show.
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The FBI used camera images of the body of a Fanone officer to identify one of his attackers as Thomas Sibick of Buffalo, New York.
Sibick posted a video on his Instagram account showing him using his cell phone to record himself on the stage for the opening ceremony on the lower west terrace, where he shouts, “I just had tear gas, but we’re going, baby, we’re going!” according to the statement of facts filed with the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. Another photo shared on Facebook on January 27 showed him posing outside the Capitol with a shield from the United States Capitol Police.
The court documents included an image that Thomas Sibick posted on social media showing him posing with a shield from the United States Capitol police. The FBI said he also delivered a stolen DC Metropolitan Police shield covered in mud that he said he buried in his backyard in Buffalo, NY, after Jan. 6 (FBI)
When FBI agents first interviewed him on January 27, Sibick acknowledged being in Washington, DC, at the US Capitol on January 6 and said that while on Capitol Hill, he saw a DC Metropolitan Police officer being pulled down the stairs and hit with what he described as a “flagpole”.
Sibick reported seeing at least two other individuals beating the policeman and trying to get his gun, but failed because of the “piece of plastic on top of the holster”. Sibick said he heard someone say, “Take his gun and kill him.” He also “stated that he tried to reach the officer to keep him out, but he was unable to reach him and, at that moment, he feared for his life and that of the officer”.
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Fanone told the media in interviews on camera in the weeks after the attack that he shouted at the crowd that had children in an effort to appeal to someone’s humanity after hearing screams that they would kill him with their own weapon, Business Insider reported.
The FBI has been looking for suspects accused of beating DC Metro policeman Mike Fanone outside the Capitol on January 6 until he lost consciousness and was hospitalized for a minor heart attack.
When FBI agents interviewed Sibick again on February 23 after the police observed an individual consistent with his appearance on Fanone’s body camera, Sibick admitting to grabbing the officer’s badge and radio. He claimed that the badge fell while trying to help the police and, as soon as he got the radio, hit the “orange emergency button” to get help.
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Sibick first said he dropped his badge and radio and left, but then he went back and said he loaded them up and threw them in a trash can on Constitution Avenue. He retracted his statement again during the same interview and said he brought the items back to his hotel room and then home to Buffalo, where he threw them in a trash can located in an alley behind the Lenox Hotel.
After an FBI agent sent a sneaky e-mail on February 25 claiming they would extract the hotel’s security footage, Sibick called to say he actually buried the badge in his backyard. He later handed a plastic bag full of mud with the badge inside to FBI investigators, according to court documents.