"If those responsible are not held accountable, and if Congress does not act responsibly, this will remain a cancer on our constitutional republic, undermining the peaceful transfer of power at the heart of our democracy system." -- Liz Cheneypic.twitter.com/D8LBl64yn3
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Fanone pounds the table as he says, "the indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful!" "Nothing has prepared me to address those elected members of our government who continue to deny the events of that day and in doing so betray their oath of office," he addspic.twitter.com/LrJOxT0ueh
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DC officer Daniel Hodges: "A man attempted to rip the baton from my hands & we wrestled for control. I retained my weapon. After I pushed him back, he yelled at me, 'you're on the wrong team!'...another [shouted], 'you will die on your knees!'"pic.twitter.com/MxZnFTNYlO
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The look on Adam Kinzinger's face during law enforcement's opening statements to the January 6 committee says a lotpic.twitter.com/2E8AJ0b3uh
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"The mob of terrorists were shouting 'heave, ho' and they pushed their way forward. A man in front of me grabbed my baton ... he bashed me in the face and head with it ... I did the only thing I could do and screamed for help" -- Officer Hodgespic.twitter.com/NwpDcPEKnx
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Capitol Officer Harry Dunn on what he saw on January 6: "Until then I had never seen anyone physically assault Capitol police or MPD, let alone witness mass assaults being perpetrated on law enforcement officers."pic.twitter.com/I8E5qnCAps
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Officer Dunn: "I told them to just leave the Capitol, and in response they yelled, 'no man, this is our house. President Trump invited us here. We're here to stop the steal.'" He goes on to detail how crowd yelled racial slurs at him.pic.twitter.com/NYZDPPKg0t
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fficer Dunn: "I sat down on a bench in the rotunda with a friend of mine who is also a black Capitol police officer and told him about the racial slurs I endured. I became very emotional and began yelling, 'how the blank could something like this happen. Is this America?'"pic.twitter.com/rcn6ElsXU5
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Sgt. Gonell: "My time, compared to [serving in] Iraq, totally different. This is our own citizens, people who we've sworn an oath to protect, but yet they are attacking us with the same flag they claim to represent. It was bad."pic.twitter.com/TRKyGN1qmX
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Officer Dunn on racial abuse he received on January 6: "It was just so overwhelming and so disheartening and disappointing that we live in a country with people like that"pic.twitter.com/ceiSVsElFM
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Cheney asks Sgt. Gonell how he feels when he hears Trump describe the mob as a "loving crowd." He says it's "upsetting" and that "it's a pathetic excuse for his behavior, for something that he himself helped create ... I'm still recovering from those 'hugs and kisses' that day"pic.twitter.com/cnK1s826CE
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My God. The January 6 footage from Officer Fanone's body camera is harrowing and at one point shows him yelling to the insurrectionists assaulting him, "I've got kids!"pic.twitter.com/7QfVPKIVrc
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Officer Fanone on getting pulled off the line of law enforcement officers by insurrectionists on January 6: "I knew that I was in -- I was up shit creek without a paddle ... based off the body-worn camera footage, it's believed that I was unconscious for approximately 4 minutes"pic.twitter.com/6R0OPYnKyR
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"I never expected today to be quite as emotional for me as it has been" -- Adam Kinzinger breaks down as he commends the officers for the jobs they did on January 6pic.twitter.com/JrgPEK0h8P
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Kinzinger, choking up, concludes by telling the officers, "we thank you for holding that line."pic.twitter.com/rTwq1CgBYA
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Sgt. Gonell's body cam footage from January 6 shows someone telling him, "you're going to die tonight"pic.twitter.com/BAiGZcktWy
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Sgt. Gonell: "My sense of duty for the country, for the constitution, at that time was bigger than even my love for my wife & my son. I put that ahead. And, for me, it's confounding that some people who have sworn an oath. Elected officials... they're forgetting about their oath"pic.twitter.com/VgEyKiA9VV
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An emotional Rep. Schiff: "If we're no longer committed to a peaceful transfer of power after elections if our side doesn't win, then God help us. If we deem elections illegitimate merely because they didn't go our way ... then God help us."pic.twitter.com/ccPZMKUQa5
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Rep. Pete Aguilar plays a video highlighting the weapons insurrectionists used on January 6pic.twitter.com/Fg0JxSlhn4
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Officer Hodges on why he characterized January 6 as a white nationalist insurrection: "The crowd was overwhelmingly white males ... people who associate with Donald Trump I find more likely to subscribe to that kind of belief system."pic.twitter.com/R1gQO9hbyN
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Officer Hodges's body camera footage from January 6 shows chain of events leading to him getting crushed in a Capitol doorwaypic.twitter.com/K2LnNfnUQN
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Rep. Stephanie Murphy gives thanks to Capitol law enforcement officers: "I think it's important for everyone to remember, though, that the main reason rioters didn't harm any members of Congress is because they didn't encounter any members of Congress."pic.twitter.com/llVO3Nctp4
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Rep. Raskin: "Those who attacked you and beat you are fascist traitors to our country, and will be remembered forever as fascist traitors."pic.twitter.com/ReJxUIRXKk
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Officer Dunn on why January 6 was violent whereas other protests in DC generally have not been: "They had marching orders ... when people feel emboldened by people in power, they assume that they're right."pic.twitter.com/2OWxH6TMz0
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Officer Hodges on Republicans describing insurrectionists as "tourists": "Well, if that's what American tourists are like, I can see why foreign countries don't like American tourists."pic.twitter.com/fmV6I7QEJz
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Officer Fanone: "Thinking about those events and the things that were said, it's disgraceful that members of our govt [who] I believe were responsible for inciting that behavior and then continue to propagate those statements, things like, 'this was a 1776'"pic.twitter.com/CqMvxLJOuc
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Officer Fanone urges the January 6th Select Committee to investigate the rhetoric that incited people in the days leading up to January 6 and whether there was collaboration between GOP elected officials and insurrectionistspic.twitter.com/7vLNuDnAFk
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Officer Hodges: "I need you guys to address is anyone in power had a role in this, if anyone in power coordinated, or aided or abetted, or tried to downplay, tried to prevent the investigation of, this terrorist attack."pic.twitter.com/inVO6IGZEn
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Officer Dunn: "Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are being lauded as courageous heroes. And while I agree with that notion, why? Because they told the truth? Why is telling the truth hard? I guess in this America, it is."pic.twitter.com/CeBD6kHl7P
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Officer Dunn: "There was an attack carried out on January 6, and a hit man sent them. I want you to get to the bottom of that."pic.twitter.com/mIOtjxKpI7
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