Posted on 07/27/2021 9:22:09 AM PDT by algore
U.S. Capitol cops and DC Metropolitan Police officers called rioters 'terrorists', attacked Republicans who have downplayed January 6 and recalled the 'medieval battle' they faced during the first hearing of the select committee on Tuesday.
Officers Harry Dunn, Aquilino Gonell, Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges gave harrowing testimony to the panel of seven Democrats and two Republicans - Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger - describing how they feared the rioters would kill them and criticized the treatment of their colleagues.
They also told the panel how they were confronted by people waving MAGA flags, Trump supporters saying President Biden didn't win the election, and others racially abusing them.
Dunn said he was called the n-word more than a dozen times and one rioter said: 'This n***er voted for Biden.'
Officer Hodges said: 'To my perpetual confusion, I saw the thin blue line flag, the symbol of support for law enforcement, more than once being carried by the terrorists as they ignored our demands and continued to assault us.'
In his testimony, Gonell recounted how the 'rioters call me traitor
'The rioters were vicious and relentless. We found ourselves in a violent battle,' he said of that day.
He described his experience 'like something from a medieval battle. We fought hand to hand, inch by inch, to prevent an invasion of the Capitol by the mob intend on subverting our democracy
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Really? Where’s the footage of this. There were cameras everywhere.
What... a bunch... of useless pansies. I’m speechless at the hyperbole. This bullshit theater needs to be called out. I’m so tired of it all.
Bearing false witness. Shame on them.
This is the event where they will designate all of us as terrorists and treat us as such. And most will sit idly by and let it happen.
Sounds like he is channeling AOC. Or maybe she taught him what to say.
What babyish histrionics.
“Invasion”....obviously has it mixed up with the Mexican Border fiasco.
Silly damn fools.
Why did the CP leadership not get the reinforcements they requested? Didn’t the FBI plan/have knowledge of the so called insurrection?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Dunn said he was called the n-word more than a dozen times and one rioter said: ‘This n***er voted for Biden.’
I heard some of it in a radio “news report”
It’s like the Tea Party protesters supposedly spitting on John Lewis and calling him names during the Obamacare protests.... hundreds of cameras and not a shred of evidence it happened.
Somebody needs a Midol and a heating pad. What a freaking drama queen.
What a little bitch. Someone slap him to death.
Release ALL the video and then I might listen. Till then I consider everyone one involved in this joke hearing an enemy of the Nation.
I wonder if anyone on this committee will asked which group was armed? The Capitol police or the protesters?
I watched all the officers repeat the written scripts...along with the drama. My gosh it was a performance I’m very sorry these men agreed to. No wonder this is called a “Pelosi-Appointed Committee” show.....it has her and her cohorts names all over it!
I believe there are around 15,000 hours from all the cameras that were on that day. You know the day that was worse than August 24, 1814 when the brits burned it down. I remember seeing pics on 1/7/2021 and the smoldering ruins looked like something out of a movi........... Oh, it was from a movie. Independence day with will smith or was it Olympus has Fallen with gerard butler? Lying liars and the lies they lie about. Will nanzi’s role ever be revealed? Probably not.
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