Police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 described a harrowing confrontation with rioters, in testimony at a House select committee’s first public hearing
described a harrowing confrontation with rioters, in testimony at a House select committee’s first public hearing Tuesday.
The hearing represents the beginnings of the committee’s efforts to investigate the events on Jan. 6, when then-President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, temporarily interrupting the certification of President Biden’s victory in the November election over Mr. Trump. Capitol Police officer Aquilino Gonell said that he and fellow officers were beaten repeatedly and that he thought he would die. “We fought hand to hand, inch by inch,” he testified.
Mr. Gonell said that he is troubled by any effort to play down the severity of the attack. “There is a continuous and shocking attempt to ignore or try to destroy the truth of what truly happened that day, and to whitewash the facts,” he said. The panel has been the subject of bitter partisan divisions. Most Republicans voted against both the formation of the panel and a previous effort to establish a bipartisan commission, pointing to existing
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