Officer injured in January 6 riot calls for independent commission: "I was tortured. I was beaten"
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Newly obtained video by CBS News shows the brutal beating of D.C. Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone during January's Capitol riot.
"All holy hell broke loose. The next thing you know, we were just in a hand-to-hand battle," Fanone told CBS News' Kris Van Cleave. His body camera captured the moment as he was pulled into the crowd of rioters and attacked. "I was tortured. I was beaten. I was, you know, struck with a taser numerous times at the base of my skull. And I posed no threat," Fanone said. He was forced to the ground, suffered a heart attack and a brain injury. Fearing for his life, he called out, "I have kids."Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.