Officer Michael Fanone Hits Back at Right-Wing ‘Entertainment Media': ‘I’m Not a Crisis Actor’ (Video)

Officer Michael Fanone railed on Wednesday against right-wing media coverage of his testimony a day earlier before the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.“The facts are the facts. What happened to me, the injuries I sustained — you don’t have to take my word for it. You can watch the video,” he said during an appearance on “New Day,” CNN’s morning show. “I’m not a crisis actor. I’m a 20-year veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department here in Washington, D.C. I’ve served with distinction and that day was as traumatic as it looked when you watch it, either on my body-worn camera footage or on other videos but again, I think that rhetoric being utilized by our lawmakers — and then also the entertainment media hosts — is leading people to a separate set of facts which they operate off of and in that bizarro world, ...