Tennessee man who dragged police officer into mob of rioters on Jan. 6 sentenced to over 7 years in prison

The Tennessee man who admitted to dragging Washington, D.C. police officer Michael Fanone into a violent mob outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced Thursday to 90 months in prison. 

Albuquerque Head, a 43-year-old father and construction worker, pleaded guilty in May to assaulting the officer and participating in one of the Capitol riot's most volatile episodes. 

Prosecutors alleged — and Head later admitted — that after listening to former President Donald Trump's speech on the White House Ellipse that day, he made his way to the Capitol and pushed his way past barricades to the front of a crowd that had assembled in the lower West Terrace tunnel.