Four law enforcement officers who responded to the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol will deliver testimony Tuesday to the House select committee investigating the melee.
Their remarks will be the first heard in front of the new, Democratic-led panel.
The four officers are:
- Harry Dunn and Aquilino Gonell of the U.S. Capitol Police;
- and Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department.
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Fanone voluntarily rushed to the Capitol with his partner when he heard about the attacks. As a result of his bravery that day, he suffered a traumatic brain injury and a heart attack. In a video that has now been shared widely, Hodges can be seen being crushed by the mob as he and his fellow officers sought to defend a narrow hallway leading to a Capitol entrance. Dunn was one of the first officers to speak publicly about what law enforcement encountered when the rioters stormed the Capitol and the racial epithets he and others faced. Gonell, a veteran who had been deployed to Iraq, defended the Capitol against rioters who hurled chants of “traitor.” While pulling an officer who had fallen to the ground away from the rioters, Gonell was beaten with a pole carrying an American flag.
The officers’ testimony will bring into focus individual acts of heroism by law enforcement that day. The officers will also speak to how, more than six months after the attack, law enforcement officers continue to deal with the physical, mental and emotional effects of that day. This conversation is an important step, as we look to bolster protection of the Capitol and our democracy.
Regrettably, some are already focusing their energies on maligning the select committee before its work has even begun. We will not be distracted by politically motivated sideshows.
"This hearing is just the beginning of the select committee’s work; when it comes to the security of the Capitol — and our democracy — nothing will be off-limits. We will do what is necessary to understand what happened, why and how." — Bennie Thompson (D-MS)
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On Tuesday, as the newly-minted U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack launches, holding its first day of events, four far right wing House Republicans – some of whom has been linked to white nationalists – will be holding a different type of event.
Instead of working to uncover and piece together all the information about what happened on Jan. 6, including what led up to the attempted coup, four GOP representatives – Matt Gaetz, Louie Gohmert, Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene – will hold a press conference on the "treatment" of the January 6 "prisoners," suggesting they are "political prisoners," which is false.
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Trump is almost certain to be his opponent in 2024 and could be the Speaker of the House in 22. Nationalism is the enemy of pluralistic democracy. Faith and belief in our Republic has been deliberately poisoned by lies about a stolen election. Nihilists are making millions for inciting panic about a life saving vaccine while Covid is exploding because of the pandemic of the unvaxxed. Trump will use the chaos that is being stoked in his name to attack Biden as weak, indecisive and ineffective. Each attack will increase fanaticism, inspire extremism and radicalize more people. It cannot be accommodated, appeased or ignored.
The great American Statesman, Secretary of State George Schultz once remarked that the single most important foreign policy decision Ronald Reagan ever made was firing the Air Traffic Controllers
after saying he would do so if they didn’t return to work by his deadline. The Soviets took notice. Declassified cables speak to their assessment of a man who did what he said he would do. Similarly, this moment calls for
@POTUS to lead with decisiveness.
The single gutsiest
presidential decision I have witnessed in my lifetime was
@BarackObamas decision to order the killing and seizure of Bin Ladens body in Pakistan. If the mission failed, his Presidency would have ended at one term. He understood the situation required him to be all in.
The
stakes are high. We should all reject the idea that we must kowtow to an aggrieved minority and tiptoe around their sensibilities. The idea being promulgated by liars like
@SarahHuckabee, that the real issue is feelings, specifically the feelings of the real
Victims of COVID-19, the unvaxxed who virtuously brood and seethe over the condescensions heaped on them as they are assailed by information around a vaccine that can save their lives. What total nonsense. Insanity. Who decided to let these people take
all of us hostage?
The softness and grievance at the core of Trumps cult is profound. Since when does 25 percent of the adult population suddenly get to demand through some weird assemblage of extremist politicians that they must be treated with the same delicacy and caution Clarise approached Hannibal Lecter with ? It’s time to quash the pandemic. It’s time to stop fucking around with the lies and insanity. It’s a time to communicate clearly and directly to the country. It is a time to talk about obligations and responsibilities.
It is a time to confront the liars and call the nations most credible voices forward to help save lives. It is time to impose mandates and give people a choice. Talk to them like grownups. Say, if you choose not to be vaccinated that means the following…….
Life is going to shrink in the months ahead for a lot of people. It’s important that it’s the right people and that starts with understanding that vaccinated people, immunocompromised people, and under twelve are the wrong people to punish in the name of a purposeless appeasement to irrationality
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3. He stated that because of the narrow scope of his investigation as per the DOJ he couldn’t pursue further crimes
4. Garland should appoint Mueller as Special Counsel again & given a larger scope to investigate trump & company further as it relates to the Russian debacle
5. We now know Mueller can charge trump as per his current findings so let me expand on my earlier comment. Mueller didn’t indict only based on his belief a sitting President can’t be charged with criminal acts while holding office
6. trump no longer holds office
7. Once the full scope of trump’s alleged crimes are known the truth will fulfill American’s rights to transparency
8. If the outcome is what I suspect we will have a higher possibility in holding & expanding our majority in both houses
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#IndictTrump
The point is to pursue the work already done. I have no quarrel on who is chosen to charge trump on what they already know & unhindered pursue everyone who was compromised & guilty of crimes.