Four police officers deliver graphic, riveting testimony about their violent clashes with a mob during the January 6 US Capitol riots, as a congressional panel launched its probe of the deadly insurrection
Often tearful, sometimes profane, the officers called the rioters"terrorists" engaged in an"attempted coup".
Often tearful, sometimes profane, the officers called the rioters "terrorists" engaged in an "attempted coup". "The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful," Fanone added, slamming his hand onto the witness table.It was a dramatic first hearing for a Democratic-led House of Representatives committee tasked with investigating the worst violence at the Capitol since the British invasion in the War of 1812.
Fanone said he was pulled into the crowd, beaten, shocked repeatedly with a Taser, robbed of his badge and knocked unconscious, with doctors telling him he suffered a heart attack. Fanone said he heard a rioter say "kill him with his own gun"."What we were subjected to that day was like something from a medieval battlefield," Gonell said, adding that his family wondered if he was alive as they watched the violence on television.
Four people died on the day of the violence, including one rioter shot by police and three others who died after medical emergencies. A police officer who was attacked by rioters died the following day. The rioters stormed the Capitol, sending lawmakers and then-Vice President Mike Pence scrambling for safety. The riot followed Trump's speech to supporters repeating his false election claims.
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