Byline: Emily Davies

WASHINGTON - One D.C. police sergeant said his body burned for a week after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol. A former officer held back tears as he described being dragged into a mob and beaten on the West Terrace. A photojournalist said he had a hard time eating and sleeping because of neck injuries he sustained while trying to document the events of that day.

The three appeared Thursday in a quiet courtroom less than half a mile away from where a prime-time Jan. 6 congressional hearing was scheduled to take place just hours later. They were there to share their stories with the court, in front of the man who prosecutors said had attacked them.

Lucas Denney sat silently through the hearing, not looking at the men who spoke. The 44-year-old, who had pleaded guilty to an assault on law enforcement, was accused of hurling a long plastic pipe in to police lines and acting with the crowd that attacked then-D.C. Officer Michael Fanone. Denney was scheduled to be sentenced Thursday, after the judge heard from those victimized in the attack.

"I do not care how much time Mr. Denney is sentenced to," Fanone told the federal judge...