The four officers testifying flatly rejected any attempts to rewrite history on Jan. 6 and downplay the attack as one that shouldn't be investigated further, telling lawmakers they all feared for their lives on Jan. 6.
, emotional accounts from law enforcement officers who defended the building against a pro-Trump mob.
Hodges, who referred to the rioters as"terrorists," detailed the weapons used against officers that day including police shields, batons, hammers, a sledgehammer, flag poles, tasers, pepper spray, bear and wasp spray, copper pipes, rocks, table legs broken down, guardrails, cones and"any items they can get their hands on."
"Us four officers, we would do Jan. 6 all over again," Dunn said."We wouldn't stay home because we knew what was going to happen. We would show up. That's courageous. That's heroic. So what I ask from you all, is to get to the bottom of what happened." "I'm a law enforcement officer and I do my best to keep politics out of my job, but in this circumstance I responded, 'Well, I voted for Joe Biden, does my vote not count? Am I nobody?'" he said he told rioters who falsely shouted at him the election was stolen.
When Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., posed the same question to Dunn later, the officer said,"I guess it is America. It shouldn't be."A supporter of President Donald Trump that breeched security and entered the U.S. Capitol in protest, carries the Confederate flag, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.Cheney, in her opening statement, made clear the committee is open to subpoenaing the former president, White House aides and members of Congress as they create a timeline of the day.
Thompson said at a press conference after the hearing that the committee could be brought back for another hearing during the House's August recess, which starts Friday. The panel said its work is just beginning. Cheney reminded in her opening statement that she and other lawmakers preferred to establish an independent commission to investigate the attack, but that effort was"defeated by Republicans in the Senate.""That leaves us where we are today. We cannot leave the violence of Jan. 6 and its causes uninvestigated," she said."If those responsible are not held accountable, and if Congress does not act responsibly, this will remain a cancer on our constitutional republic.
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