Posted on 08/01/2021 1:08:51 AM PDT by RandFan
One by one, the four officers who testified Tuesday -- DC Metropolitan Police Officers Daniel Hodges and Michael Fanone, and Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Sgt. Aquilino Gonell -- recounted their gut-wrenching stories about how they were attacked and their lives were threatened on January 6.
Committee members showed the body camera footage from the officers to illustrate their harrowing accounts. Both the witnesses and lawmakers became emotional at multiple points.
Hughes described how he was forced to scream out in agony as he was pressed between the rioters and a metal doorframe. Fanone described how he was dragged into the crowd, beaten and electrocuted repeatedly with his Taser. "I was at risk of being stripped of and killed with my own firearm as I heard chants of 'kill him with his own gun,'" Fanone said. "I can still hear those words in my head today."
Dunn's testimony included detailing pro-Trump supporters hurled racial epithets at him, calling him the n-word, something he said he had never experienced while wearing his police uniform. He described afterward how he sat down with another black officer "and told him about the racial slurs I endured."
"I became very emotional and began yelling, 'How the blank could something like this happen? Is this America?'" Dunn said.
Gonell, who served in Iraq, said he was more afraid working at the Capitol on January 6 than at any point in serving a war zone. "I remember thinking to myself, this is how I am going to die, defending this entrance," said Gonell, who couldn't hug his wife when he returned home the following morning because he was covered in chemical spray.
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The n-word? I doubt this...
Ridiculous.
They sure sounded well coached. 😡🐂💩
Oh I believe it 100%, but it wasn’t Trump supporters, it was Antifa. Without one shred of doubt they were there and were behind ALL the violence as were Pelosis Sturmabteilung, the FBI. A Trump supporter attacking a cop and using the N word? Like hell! NEVER in a million years!!!!!
What’s especially infuriating about this is that Antifa for the past 5 years have been attacking cops, spitting in cops faces, throwing Molotov cocktails at them, bashing them over the head with bats, bricks, permanently blinding cops with lasers and democrats have said NOTHING about this, no hearings, no commissions nothing. Now they have the gall to blame the actions of Antifa on Trump supporters? F them! Like HELL Trump supporters attack cops!
CNN is ATT’s billion dollar whore.
Why is ATT dropping so much cash on this deranged network?
China’s 5G supply chain?
This was made for TV, scripted BS
Shame on these officers
Gonell is a crybaby. My son was one of the first American soldiers into Iraq and fought there, then spent nearly 7 years as a federal police officer (building defenses against terrorist attacks) and he never cried. Just did his job like a pro.
Dunne sounds like an affirmative action front man for BLM, etc. His t-shirt pointed that way.
If Fanone was the officer with the beard, then he is a psycho and I wouldn’t want him on any police force. he sounded too rehearsed (as did Gonell and Dunne) but with a vitriolic tone that no police officer worth his salt would ever do out in public. I suspect that there is more to him than the media is reporting.
If these officers were actually assaulted (and I believe they were to varying degrees), I understand their anger but their performances before a fixed “witch-hunt” committee was totally unprofessional and I wouldn’t trust my life to them ever.
Then they beat me with pocket constitutions while yelling, “This is MAGA Country.”
/s
Of course the left has got everyone focused on this and all of last year never happened.
Soviet Show trial …
Shame on these officers
I wonder if they can be charged with perjury later? I think if they experienced anything, it was ANTIFA.
I believe it. However, I don't believe they were Trump supporters. They were Antifa and FBI plants.
Correct...
There is no doubt in my mind about this!
We know feds were there and also Antifa with MAGA hats.
The problem though there are some people believed are drinking the Kool Aid.
The problem though there are some people believed are drinking the Kool Aid.
Meant to say: The problem though is that there are some people drinking this Kool Aid.
You changed the title. Why?
Over 14,000 hours of video made by our government during this incident and the owners, “We The People” are not allowed access to any of it and are only shown selected seconds long clips.
EXACTLY what I want to know.
Very unusual FREE REPUBLIC move.
Clickbait.
It was barfworthy. I don’t know how they kept a straight face. That picture of the four of them, when you look at their faces you can see LIAR written right across them.
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